Wellness Coaching - a Unique Very Well™ Advantage

With personal, one-on-one employee wellness coaching at its core, the Very Well™ Employee Wellness Program uses a mix of employee health assessments, interactive educational tools, and team support to bring dramatic and lasting changes in areas that can include employee fitness and nutrition; weight, smoking and stress management; and physical safety. The results of this personal wellness coaching become embraced by employees, their positive view of it crystallized by the support they receive and by their personal progress. Ultimately, Very Well™ has proven to be the most effective and least expensive employee wellness program of its kind for raising employee fitness and productivity while lowering health benefits costs. In fact, many studies have validated the significant savings and benefits derived from an employee wellness program.

How Wellness Coaching Improves Worksite Wellness

Very Well™ doesn’t use expensive cash incentives to motivate participation. It doesn't passively make resources available in hopes that employees will suddenly assume the initiative for change. It uses a far more effective motivator: one-on-one worksite wellness coaching. Very Well™ employee wellness coaching is the key to its unmatched record of success. Wellness coaching increases employee participation and energizes them to make healthier choices and adopt healthier habits. Our wellness coaching staff visits the worksite to counsel and encourage employees to stick to their chosen lifestyle changes. In addition, they enlist full team support from a network of coworkers, families and employers.

Our wellness coaches also bring a diverse range of experience to the process of improving worksite wellness. With backgrounds in the fields of nursing, nutrition, health promotion, athletic training and exercise physiology, they become valuable resources to your employee wellness initiative. Conferring with employees in pre-scheduled, rotating rounds, our wellness coaches make themselves available to those employees who need their services. They work as a team on your behalf to personally build your company’s overall worksite wellness.

Customizing Employee Wellness to Your Workplace

No two businesses are identical. Likewise, Very Well’s methods are customized for the specific employee fitness and wellness needs of each company. The Very Well™ process starts with a detailed health assessment of every participating employee. A comprehensive questionnaire is completed by each employee and is reviewed by a registered nurse. A detailed breakdown of the results is then provided, presented in easy-to-read charts, which illustrate current risk factors and goals that should be met to lower insurance premiums.

Drawing from this information, Very Well™ works with you to develop a comprehensive action plan, uniquely designed to address your employees’ health and fitness needs. For example, the risk factor data could indicate that an area of company concern is a high risk for obesity-related diseases. In a case like this, your solution may include steps as simple as switching vending machine products to healthier choices. You might also choose to work with your Very Well™ coaches to encourage employees to make time for daily exercise.
Ongoing measurements and periodic reports keep you informed of the program’s progress and the health and fitness trends of your employees.