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Creating a Supportive Environment (Classic Edition)

In this Special Report, we present information related to the sixth benchmark of results oriented wellness programs: creating supportive environments. Specifically, we’ll highlight the policies, practices, and promotions that will help you integrate wellness into your company’s working environment. In addition, we’ll present a case study of how the CDC rejuvenated stairwells to increase physical activity. To round out this issue, we’ll offer up an interview with culture change expert, Dr. Rick Bellingham.


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Carefully Evaluating Outcomes (Classic Edition)

Effectively evaluating your workplace wellness initiative can be a confusing and complicated endeavor, but that need not be the case! In this WELCOA report, you’ll learn the top 10 reasons why people don’t evaluate their programs as well as the fundamentals of evaluation. What’s more we’ll discuss the topic of evaluation with one of the nation’s best experts to get inside information that can help you do a better job at proving the efficacy of your program’s contribution to the organization.


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Getting Active: Physical Activity at Work (Classic Edition)

WELCOA zeroed in on the most effective ways to increase physical activity in the workplace. Setting forth 50 practical ideas, this report will provide a lot of insight in how to increase physical activity in the workplace.


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National Wellness Compensation Survey

Although several salary surveys have been conducted on workplace wellness personnel in the past few years, WELCOA’s 2013 National Wellness Compensation Survey (NWCS) is believed to be the first-ever compensation survey conducted on a cross-section of workplace wellness and affiliated health management personnel.


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10 Great Resources on Behavior Change

Changing unhealthy behaviors is a very complicated and complex thing to do. But make no mistake about it; it is possible—in fact people do it every day. Although complicated, there are a number of best-in-class resources that are available to help you. Some of the resources listed in this publication are available at a nominal price—WELCOA has no financial interest in any of the references mentioned.


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When it Comes from You

Perhaps the single most important element in building and sustaining a wellness program in a small business setting is having CEO buy-in. Indeed, time and time again, it has been our experience that the organizations that successfully garner senior-level support are the ones that have healthier employees and better working environments.


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Communicating Your Evaluation Results

These days everybody talks about the “stickiness” factor. Without going too deep, “stickiness” is the notion of getting your information noticed. In this article, we’ll put forth some useful tips to help you get the most out of your evaluation results.


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The Fundamentals of Evaluation

Evaluation need not be a complicated process. But in order to effectively and competently evaluate your worksite wellness initiative, you’ll need to have some basic information. In this article, we’ll present the fundamentals of evaluation.


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Policies, Practices & Promotions

In order to effectively integrate wellness into your company’s working environment, you’ll need to address nine specific policies, practices, and promotions. In this article, we’ll present key insights on how you can do this.


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Developing a Data Dashboard

If you’re looking to build a results-oriented wellness program, you’ll need to collect data—and a lot of it. It’s a big job to put data collection mechanisms in place within your organization. But once these systems are actually in place, the real challenge becomes communicating the findings to the appropriate stakeholders throughout the organization in…


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