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<\/p>\nFinding the right wellness vendor is crucial to implementing a successful wellness program, but a vendor can only do so much.\u00a0 Successful wellness programs require building a culture of health and wellness, which means more than just finding the right vendor or partner \u2013 there are \u201cother things\u201d that employers must do.<\/p>\n
This is the third post in a series that addresses the \u201cother things\u201d that are crucial to fostering a culture of health and wellness.<\/p>\n
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Does your company promote the three C\u2019s of wellness: committee, champion, and captains?\u00a0 The three C\u2019s are crucial to building a culture of wellness.\u00a0 Let\u2019s examine each a little more closely:<\/p>\n
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A wellness committee is a group of employees who are involved in assessing a company\u2019s wellness needs, evaluating wellness vendors, determining a wellness strategy, and helping to execute on that strategy.\u00a0 A wellness committee should consist of a diverse group of employees.\u00a0 The committee should draw from members of various departments, a broad range of ages, and even multiple office locations.\u00a0 Be careful\u2026 it\u2019s easy for a committee to be taken over by fitness fanatics.\u00a0 A group of fitness fanatics and health nuts is likely not an accurate representation of your employee population.\u00a0 Leverage this group for key wellness decisions.\u00a0 Developing wellness through group consensus will lead to a more successful program, better alignment with your employees\u2019 preferences, and higher engagement.<\/p>\n
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Your wellness program needs a champion. The wellness champion is the person who is going to internally advocate for wellness.\u00a0 This person believes that wellness is essential for the company culture and is personally willing to devote time and effort to make the wellness program successful.\u00a0 The wellness champion is a culture carrier, someone who embodies the culture of your organization.\u00a0 Culture carriers can be found at every level of the organization, not just the senior leadership.\u00a0 Every organization has someone who believes in the importance of wellness and is motivated to help promote a culture of health and wellness.\u00a0 Leverage his or her passion, enthusiasm, and leadership to build a contagious culture of wellness.\u00a0 This internal wellness evangelist can be your wellness champion.\u00a0 The champion role often falls, sometimes reluctantly, on a human resources manager.\u00a0 The human resources manager may be responsible for overseeing wellness programing and wellness strategy, but the role of internal champion doesn\u2019t need to be restricted to the human resources department.\u00a0 The right wellness champion will promote wellness out of pure passion and not because it\u2019s a job responsibility.<\/p>\n
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Team wellness competitions are a great way to drive participation in wellness programs and build connections and camaraderie amongst employees.\u00a0 To optimize engagement, every team needs captains. The role of the captain is to motivate, organize, support, and remind their team to engage in healthy activity.\u00a0 Since wellness programs can get lost amongst other competing work priorities, the captain is there to provide some additional organization and the occasional friendly reminders to participate in the program.\u00a0 Sometimes the captain will take the lead in planning a walking meeting or other healthy activity for the team.\u00a0 The team captains should be passionate about wellness and interested in taking a leadership role.\u00a0 Unlike the wellness champion, the team captain\u2019s time commitment is minimal and most organizations will have no trouble finding volunteer captains for each team.<\/p>\n
Does your company use the three C\u2019s?<\/strong>\u00a0 If not, consider how you can use a committee, a champion, and captains to help achieve your company\u2019s wellness goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Part 3: The Three C\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holistic-workplace-wellness"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n