A healthy diet throughout life promotes healthy pregnancy outcomes, supports normal growth, development and aging, helps to maintain a healthy body weight, and reduces the risk of chronic disease leading to overall health and well-being.

Good nutrition supports vital life activities such as:

• Maintaining healthy body weight
• Reducing risks of chronic disease
• Strengthening immune system
• Supporting mental well-being
• Slowing overall aging

When making dietary choices think of the FIT FIVE:

1. Choose foods with little to no added sugar
2. Try having 3 or more colors on plate
3. Reduce sodium levels and saturated fat levels to 15% or less per serving
4. Eat single servings of each item
5. Look for a high amounts of vitamins and minerals

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Work-related stress alone can cost up to $300 billion a year, and companies now recognize that poor wellbeing at work creates massive economic and productivity losses. A Global Wellness Institute survey found that 70-80 percent of US companies believe that wellness programs reduce absenteeism and increase productivity. 

Here are 5 ways you can create a culture of calm at your company:

1. Encourage stretch breaks throughout the day
2. Allow employees to put natural lighting in their offices (if able)
3. Create a no-interruption time of day (30 minutes or more)
4. Communicate deadlines in a timely manner
5. Host a daily/weekly meditation -there are some great ones on YouTube

Stress in one of the leading causes for visits to the doctor. For most visits, it is the symptoms of chronic stress that lead a person to make an appointment.  Symptoms of chronic stress can include: digestive concerns, headaches/migraines, muscle stiffness, back/neck pain, anxiety, unexplained weight gain, depression, skin rashes, and more.  Our doctors often treat the symptoms but not always the root cause.  Helping employees better understand the cause of their stress, and encouraging them to manage it will benefit both the company, the individual, and their family members. 

Contact Wishing Well Works to learn more about Stress LESS, Meditations, and other stress reduction options.

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After being stuck in Quarantine for the past year, we all could use a bit of a refresher on healthy eating habits and fitness. Nutrition and Exercise are vital components to a wellness plan.  Together with good sleep hygiene and stress management, they can make up feel our best! Choosing healthy foods and staying active have many health benefits including: better brain function, healthy cholesterol and blood pressure, improvements in memory and mood, better sleep, decrease in risk of several chronic conditions, and many more! Learn more about how we can help you achieve the health you desire! 

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• They can engage an otherwise unengaged person in some aspect of health
• They will create a sense of people culture in the workplace
• They allow employees to learn more about the health and wellness benefits available to them
• They can increase employees awareness of health resources in their community

At Wishing Well Works, we are well-versed in creating fun, interactive health fairs.  We can provide both in-person and virtual health fairs.  To learn more about our virtual fairs click on the flyer below or visit our demo site. For our in-person events we can coordinate the entire event or just bring some our fun activities like:

• Smoothie Bike
• Massage
• Food Demos
• Be WELL Boxes
• Fitness Assessment
• Exercise Demos
• And much more!

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Step 1: Understand Your Employees’ Needs

While some organizations are planning wellness programs that have defined goals and a leader implementing them.  Unfortunately, most companies are just trying to get something going with the little resources they have so wellness becomes more of a blindfold and dart situation. To get started, it is imperative learn about what team members need.  What areas of their lives could they use more support in?  What resources could be helpful to them? 

We offer a free survey tool that you can provide to your team here. This questionnaire will help you better understand what your employees are looking for in a well-being program.  We find that what employees tend to like the most, are programs that help them access something they needed or supports their ability to change health behavior. 

If you would like us to provide you with the results we are happy to do that along with some recommendations for 2024.  This is a great way to learn more about how your organization can support the team members overall.

Step 2: Determine a Budget

Once the organization has an idea of what the needs and desires of the team members are, the next step is to determine a budget.  Many major insurance plans offer wellness budgets.  Talk with your group contact about what may be available.  Additionally, many brokerage firms offer programming as part of their services.  We partner with Cigna, Aetna, ME Wilson, USI, United and others to coordinate use of wellness budgets. 

If your organization does not currently have a wellness budget, request one for the next contract year- it never hurts to ask!  Additionally, there is nothing like having skin in the game.  In general, the clients we have worked with that have the best outcomes (35+% participation etc.) are those that provide some support to the well-being program.  Any budget is worthwhile, but it is recommended that mid-size company (300 employees+) have approximately $20,000/year to spend on wellness programming.  In Wishing Well Works terms that equates to 3 multiple week programs, 2 on-site events, and more!  Wellness doesn’t have to be expensive!

Step 3: Plan Your Programs

Next is of course the planning process.  This should include the formation of a wellness committee with representatives from each department at all levels of the organization.  It is recommended that at least one C-suite executive be part of this group.  Having quarterly meetings with the first at the end of the each year is a good amount of time to connect.  Nominate one person to lead the effort with the support of a consultant if desired.  Having a wellness consultant can be very helpful in create a program that gets the most bang for the buck.  if this is a new undertaking for the group, email us and we can help guide some decisions.  The goal of this group is to find programs that meet employees needs, helps with marketing of programs, creates a level of well-being excitement, and supports the program over all.  

Step 4: Select A Vendor

Finally, a good next step is to select a vendor for the various types of programming that are of interest according to the survey.  Plan out the program offerings with your budget.  A high quality wellness provider will customize programs to meet the needs of the team, will provide programming that can be both virtual or on-site, and is well connected in the community to make recommendations of area services, some of which may be completely FREE.  The plan is important because each program requires marketing, registration, and logistical planning. 

Following these steps can make all the difference in how to make well-being a priority at your organization. If you would like to use the employee well-being survey – here is the link.

Simply email us at info@wishingwellworks.com to get the results! We recommend if you ask employees to complete this, you raffle off a few prizes to motivate folks to complete it.

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