Wellness strategies can easily fail. Ensure they are successful by linking the strategy to improvement in the organisational areas of wellness pain. The wellness budget can then be funded by the savings it will produce. Critically, there needs to be a focus on the why and what of personal wellness change and also providing resilience training tools to support and sustain the how of the personal change.

1. Why wellness strategies
fail ....... and how to make them
work
Rod Warner
rod@buildingresilience.co.za
www.buildingresilience.co.za
http://www.facebook.com/groups/buildingresilience
082 456 0819

2. Organisational wellness indices are
alarming
OvertimeOvertime
SickleaveSickleave
TTurnoverurnover

3. The business case is compelling

4. Pressure for wellnessPressure for wellness
professionals to doprofessionals to do
something!!something!!

5. A vicious cycle?

6. A vicious cycle?

7. A vicious cycle?

8. A vicious cycle?

9. A vicious cycle: nothing
changes

10. The pressing orgainsational
wellness needs remain.......
which leads to ...................

13. How can you break out of this cycle?

14. We need:
- different strategydifferent strategy
- employee- employee
behaviour changebehaviour change

15. New approach
needed please!
The wellness strategy must create and
sustain personal change

16. 1. Create an alternative wellness1. Create an alternative wellness
strategy:strategy:
1. Identify impact of wellness problems
2. Select the indices to measure
3. Create base line measures
4. Develop strategy to improve the
measures
5. Fund wellness budget through savings

17. It takes courage!

18. The key to success:The key to success:
Ensure employees understandEnsure employees understand
why, what and how to changewhy, what and how to change

19. Why and whatWhy and what to change
HowHow to sustain change

20. 2. Help each employee understand
why and whatwhy and what they should change
1. Education tailored to audience
2. Tight integration between information,
testing and individualised health plan
3. Regular testing and feedback
4. Access to corrective processes
5. Incentivise

21. Warning……..Warning……..
for 50 years we
have known :
•Knowledge does not
equal behavior change
•Desire does equal
behavior change
•Even when we get
behaviour change, it is
often short lived

22. 3. Help each employee understand
howhow to create and sustain change:
1. Personalised change strategy
2. Train in resilience tools

23. 3.1 Create a
personalised
change
strategy
(How)
... for example
weight loss

24. At the moment he has a
very strict diet that works for
a period...... and then........

26. ...pigging out, feeling...pigging out, feeling
like a failure and thenlike a failure and then
abandoning the dietabandoning the diet

27. An alternate strategy is needed to
make and sustain behaviour
change

28. Weight loss
Step 1: What? Lose 20kg weight
Step 2: Doing now? Very strict diet leading to
hunger followed by binging
Step 3: Fear if did opposite? Only dramatic diets
will work for me
Step 4: Assumption? I lack will power to stick to
a diet for the long run
Step 5: Small step? Test the assumption with a
gentle and gradual diet for a short period

29. 3.2 Train resilience tools (How)

30. Life meaning: meaning making and
strengths
Self management: perspective,
positive feelings and realistic optimism
Coping style: action orientated and
social support
Elements of resilience

31. •Meaning making
•Using strengths
•Maintaining perspective
•Generating positive feelings
•Having realistic optimism
•Reaching out to others
Resilience tools:

32. • Coping with change
• Keeps stress positive
........ sustains wellness behaviour change
Building Resilience tools enable:

33. In summary:
1. Link strategy to
improvement in indices
2. Fund budget by
savings
3.Focus on the why and
what of personal
wellness change
4. Provide resilience
training in the how of
sustaining personal
wellness change
You are
our
heroes!

34. Why wellness strategies
fail ....... and how to make them
work
Rod Warner
rod@buildingresilience.co.za
www.buildingresilience.co.za
http://www.facebook.com/groups/buildingresilience
082 456 0819