Switching to a Wellness-First approach will dramatically reduce your healthcare costs and ignite a true culture of health and vitality in your organization. This is NOT another check-the-box wellness program.
For more information download the PDF guide that includes how to get started, what it looks like in practice for sample employees and some questions to ask your benefit brokers.
Visit the Get Off Pharma YouTube Channel to hear Emma discuss topics such as the business case for real health, how to reduce healthcare spend and why a revolution in employee benefits design is such a critical HR issue.
Current State Understanding
Where are you trying to get to and where have you been? What is the current situation? What are the current health issues in the population? What solutions do you have in place today and how are they doing? We will use a variety of methods to gain a full understanding including workshops, focus groups and data analysis.
Analysis & Design
You are a unique organization with unique values and priorities employing a wide range of unique individuals. Independently analyzing everything you have told us will lead to a design or alternatives that will get you where you want to be. We will work with you collaboratively to help you make final decisions on a go forward strategy.
This is the action stage. The most important element here is Communication. To leadership, to managers, to other parts of HR and most critically to employees to ensure they are engaged in the journey and not feeling overwhelmed. It may include selection of new solutions/vendors or just doing stuff differently.
Measure & Improve
You thought you were done? Far from it! We iterate. We will be measuring what is working and what is not and adjust accordingly. If you don't measure it you won't improve.
It has to start at the top to commit to the radical changes needed.
Use focus groups, leadership
interviews and/or anonymous surveys
to gather input from individuals.
Look at medical claims, absence rates, and other utilization statistics to understand the biggest problems in the population. Then measure the effectiveness of interventions over time.
Open communication using a combination of methods and media such as short video sound bites, longer webinars, articles and podcasts, around health, healthcare and lifestyle topics.
Re-assess the value and ROI of current vendor solutions and programs offered by insurance companies. Consider alternatives more focused on health improvement rather than management.
Identify your true believers and leverage their stories. Train them to be champions for the cause.
Emma’s flagship course aimed at Employers includes 38 lessons and over 6 hours of video content in a self-paced online format. It’s a simple way to access Emma’s key ideas and step-by-step approach in a low-cost package.
The course covers:
The problems with the current approach to corporate healthcare plans
A little history of healthcare for context and understanding
Elements of a best practice corporate wellness strategy
How a wellness-first approach is the only way to reduce healthcare spend
Details of a new style health plan
How to get started in your own organization
It includes online discussion forums with other students, downloadable slides and other documents, interactive quizzes to test your understanding, and a free one-hour session with Emma once you complete the course.
Visit the Course page on the Learning Center for more details.
