What is this about?

Most of us know that better-integrated wellness programs achieve more results, both the lower and higher-order results from our Results Hierarchy Solution Set (S3). The challenge all employers face is knowing what elements in their wellness program need to be integrated.  This Solution Set document provides a complete list of integration points where your wellness program activity can be linked to other wellness activities and other related organizational activities.  They are divided into “program activities”, “policy positions” and “environmental aspects.” In addition, the most productive Google search string is provided to enable you to acquire actual examples of the integration steps or language involved.

Why is this important?

This Solution Set document is designed to determine how integrated your wellness and well-being programming is and how to improve its degree of integration. Integrating your wellness program usually involves some level of personalization, use of personal information to shape programming, provision of reminders, linkage of messaging, repetition of key messaging, creation of supportive environment including organizational policies and ease of use of programming.  Ultimately a major portion of the potential results of your wellness program will be determined by the degree of integration of your wellness activities.  By using the recommended search string, you can access examples of policies, approaches and messaging that can strengthen the integration of your wellness programming and its effectiveness.

What can you do with this document?

• First, look the document over to get a sense the span of issues that integration addresses
• Next, decide which of these points you feel are adequately addressed now and check the “OK” box.
• Then, determine which of the remaining items need attention and number them in the “OK” box as to how you are going to work on them. (Number “1” is first up, “2” is second up. etc.)
• Then, slowly work through each one using the search string to get actual examples of each.
• Then, introduce the improvements you come up with.
• Then, perform a follow-up evaluation of the effectiveness of your wellness program on the key results you desire.
• Periodically write up that evaluation and distribute it to key stakeholders.

In summary, this fairly comprehensive listing of integration and linkage points can be used to enhance the overall effectiveness of your employee wellness efforts and provides a useful framework for better integrating your wellness programming efforts.