One of the biggest concerns of employers is containing the high cost of employee benefits – particularly health care expenses. Wellness programs are among the most effective ways for an employer to promote a healthy workplace and cut overall health expenses.
The challenge for employer-led preventative wellness programs is to get employees, as individuals, more involved. Individual health coaching takes on a much more important role in this context. In fact, researchers from the Center for Disease Control indicate that "individual coaching may be the critical component for effective worksite health promotion programs."
Health coaches work with employees, evaluating their personal health risk assessment and helping them develop a personalized health plan, with direct involvement in reaching their goals. Dedicated health coaches also develop a relationship of trust with the patient in working through often very personal issues.
Our online health coaching programs can encourage more honest feedback and self-reporting, contributing to higher success rates. Such online forms of communication as email, instant messaging/text messaging, journals, blogs, and personalized website information provide employees ‘instant gratification’.
Often an employee feels better after composing an email and articulating the problem – even if the response doesn’t come until the next day. Triad Fitness Advisors provide support in the areas of weight management, blood pressure and cholesterol control, nutrition and smoking cessation. For more information, contact mbaker@triadfitnessadvisors.com or call us at 336.210.4203.
