2010 NWC Worksite Wellness Academy
The NWC Worksite Academy will be hosted by Bill Baun and George Pfeiffer from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (July 20-22, 2010). This academy provides an opportunity to make professional connections that begin at the National Wellness Conference and continue long after.
"Beyond Incentives: How to Motivate Employees to Make Lifestyle Changes"
Presenter: Don Powell, PhD
It is one thing to know how to alter one's behavior, but it is an entirely different matter to be motivated to do so. It is felt that employee motivation is the key factor in determining the success of worksite wellness programs and their ability to reduce health care costs. In an entertaining and informative manner, this talk will present the key techniques that can both initiate and maintain employee motivation to improve their health. The components of the BEMEM model for behavior change will be described. It consists of Behavior Modification, Education, Motivation, Enjoyment and Maintenance.
"Showing an ROI by Incentivizing and Rewarding Behaviors"
Presenter: Jill Young, MS, CPC
This presentation provides an overview of a highly successful worksite healthy lifestyle incentive program delivered at multiple campuses throughout the Montana University System. The entire program will be shared, including the credit-eligible activities based on a population health management model and how we measured outcomes and showed a 5:1 return on investment (ROI) by asking the "right" behavioral and health-status questions and using industry data and a cost-savings calculation. Tips will be given on what date to report to key stakeholders and how to incorporate the objectives of a worksite wellness program with the goals of a self-funded insurance plan.
"Managing Stress to Facilitate Performance and Decrease Health Care Costs"
Presenters: Bruce Cryer and Woody Bedell
The myth prevails that stress is what makes people work hard, that if you reduce stress you will reduce productivity: that managing emotions is a soft lower priority compared to improving other biometrics and performance indicators. The facts are quite opposite. Stress and depression cost more than poor exercise, diet or smoking. Stress is the most significant risk in driving absenteeism, presenteeism and workers compensation claims. In this presentation the science of stress and its effect on performance and health costs will be covered as well as two case studies showing significant improvement in health, well-being and health costs trends. You'll learn about how innovative stress technology combined with tools that build care and collaboration are producing results.
"Building a Resilient Workforce: How to Create an Environment that Leads to Healthy, Stress Hardy Employees Who Embody a 'Warrior Spirit'"
Presenter: David Lee, MEd
The more resilient your workforce, the greater their ability to face today's major changes, challenges and uncertainties with a "Warrior Spirit", as they say at Southwest Airlines. Furthermore, because resilient people handle the pressures and demands of work life without getting stressed out- and eventually burned out- like their less resilient counterparts, a resilient workforce results in: greater productivity; better customer service or patient care; lower healthcare costs; and lower workers comp costs. This program integrates research on stress, resilience and human nature with best practices gathered from interviews and case studies, providing you with guiding principles and practical strategies.
"Creating Wellness Leadership Dashboards"
Presenters: Judd Allen, PhD, CWP
As a health promotion practitioner, you work hard to collect data about wellness attitudes and behavior. This presentation is about completing the feedback loop by offering managers at all levels leadership dashboards with the information they need to support your wellness initiative. This presentation explains how to construct leadership dashboards that tracks: (1) performance results including health risk, lifestyle change and the economic impact, (2) programmatic results including program participation rates, satisfaction and if programming needs are being met, (3) cultural results including measures of shared values, norms, cultural touch points, peer support and climate. We will also discuss your role in supporting middle-management and other wellness champions in their efforts to create healthy and productive workgroups.
"Y-Wellness? Engaging the Next Generation of Workers in your Wellness Program"
Presenter: Brett Powell
As the baby boomer generation prepares for retirement, it is their children who are now entering the workforce. Generation Y, or Millennials as they are often called, already make up greater than 20% of America’s workforce and are the fastest growing group of employees. The young people that make up this generation are far different than generations before them, particularly as it relates to health. They think of Facebook as social interaction and Guitar Hero as exercise. This talk will help you engage this "text message" generation in your wellness program. Topics to be discussed include the importance of having young workers involved in your wellness programs, motivating young people to make healthy lifestyle choices, and strategies specific to this technology driven group versus those from prior generations.
Two presenters will present each morning with 5 to 10 minutes of Q & A following each presentation. At 11:30 a.m. attendees will get their lunch and bring it back to the Academy which will be set up with round tables. The presenters and participants will then engage in the World Cafe, a conversational process based on a set of integrated design principles that provide useful guidance for seeking creative ways to foster authentic dialogue in which the goal is thinking together and creating actionable knowledge. Click here to learn more about the principles of the World Cafe.
TUESDAY, JULY 20: INCENTIVES
"Beyond Incentives: How to Motivate Employees to Make Lifestyle Changes"Presenter: Don Powell, PhD
It is one thing to know how to alter one's behavior, but it is an entirely different matter to be motivated to do so. It is felt that employee motivation is the key factor in determining the success of worksite wellness programs and their ability to reduce health care costs. In an entertaining and informative manner, this talk will present the key techniques that can both initiate and maintain employee motivation to improve their health. The components of the BEMEM model for behavior change will be described. It consists of Behavior Modification, Education, Motivation, Enjoyment and Maintenance.
"Showing an ROI by Incentivizing and Rewarding Behaviors"Presenter: Jill Young, MS, CPC
This presentation provides an overview of a highly successful worksite healthy lifestyle incentive program delivered at multiple campuses throughout the Montana University System. The entire program will be shared, including the credit-eligible activities based on a population health management model and how we measured outcomes and showed a 5:1 return on investment (ROI) by asking the "right" behavioral and health-status questions and using industry data and a cost-savings calculation. Tips will be given on what date to report to key stakeholders and how to incorporate the objectives of a worksite wellness program with the goals of a self-funded insurance plan.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 21: STRESS AND RESILIENCE
"Managing Stress to Facilitate Performance and Decrease Health Care Costs"Presenters: Bruce Cryer and Woody Bedell
The myth prevails that stress is what makes people work hard, that if you reduce stress you will reduce productivity: that managing emotions is a soft lower priority compared to improving other biometrics and performance indicators. The facts are quite opposite. Stress and depression cost more than poor exercise, diet or smoking. Stress is the most significant risk in driving absenteeism, presenteeism and workers compensation claims. In this presentation the science of stress and its effect on performance and health costs will be covered as well as two case studies showing significant improvement in health, well-being and health costs trends. You'll learn about how innovative stress technology combined with tools that build care and collaboration are producing results.
"Building a Resilient Workforce: How to Create an Environment that Leads to Healthy, Stress Hardy Employees Who Embody a 'Warrior Spirit'"Presenter: David Lee, MEd
The more resilient your workforce, the greater their ability to face today's major changes, challenges and uncertainties with a "Warrior Spirit", as they say at Southwest Airlines. Furthermore, because resilient people handle the pressures and demands of work life without getting stressed out- and eventually burned out- like their less resilient counterparts, a resilient workforce results in: greater productivity; better customer service or patient care; lower healthcare costs; and lower workers comp costs. This program integrates research on stress, resilience and human nature with best practices gathered from interviews and case studies, providing you with guiding principles and practical strategies.
THURSDAY, JULY 22: ENGAGEMENT AND PARTICIPATION
"Creating Wellness Leadership Dashboards"Presenters: Judd Allen, PhD, CWP
As a health promotion practitioner, you work hard to collect data about wellness attitudes and behavior. This presentation is about completing the feedback loop by offering managers at all levels leadership dashboards with the information they need to support your wellness initiative. This presentation explains how to construct leadership dashboards that tracks: (1) performance results including health risk, lifestyle change and the economic impact, (2) programmatic results including program participation rates, satisfaction and if programming needs are being met, (3) cultural results including measures of shared values, norms, cultural touch points, peer support and climate. We will also discuss your role in supporting middle-management and other wellness champions in their efforts to create healthy and productive workgroups.
"Y-Wellness? Engaging the Next Generation of Workers in your Wellness Program"Presenter: Brett Powell
As the baby boomer generation prepares for retirement, it is their children who are now entering the workforce. Generation Y, or Millennials as they are often called, already make up greater than 20% of America’s workforce and are the fastest growing group of employees. The young people that make up this generation are far different than generations before them, particularly as it relates to health. They think of Facebook as social interaction and Guitar Hero as exercise. This talk will help you engage this "text message" generation in your wellness program. Topics to be discussed include the importance of having young workers involved in your wellness programs, motivating young people to make healthy lifestyle choices, and strategies specific to this technology driven group versus those from prior generations.
