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Increasing participation in wellness programs

Participation takes a work site wellness program from a miss to a hit.

It’s hard to get everyone involved in any program, leave alone a wellness program. A good way to keep the deployment effective and active is by measuring participation differently at different stages of a wellness program.

Stage 1 program: At this stage a wellness program has just been initiated and a baby-stepped roll…

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Financing the costs of Diabetes

Diabetes treatment is expensive and keeps getting more so as its progression affects multiple organs. It can lead to a rise in medical expenses for a life time, putting a dent in your retirement savings and increasing medical insurance costs. It sets forth a vicious circle- financial stress causes emotional stress which in turn affects our over all lifestyle choices making us choose poorly.

Fact…

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Right nutrition helps prevent and reverse diabetes?

Are we too busy to pay attention to what we are putting in our mouth? Most of us do not count the calories during our meals let alone know the nutritional value of it. If one continues like this watch happens when you hit 40, metabolism slows down, muscle regeneration slows down and fat burning reduces. Add to the normal process of aging, your stresseffects and bad nutrition, the result can be…

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Can chronic stress lead to diabetes?

Chronic stress causes diabetes. And diabetes can cause a host of complications that can affect nearly every organ in the body. Diabetes complications include:

Heart disease

Stroke

Kidney disease

Nerve damage

Eye damage

Digestion problems

Erectile dysfunction

Skin problems

Infection

Dental problems

But diabetes is controllable provided we address it’s causes early on. Good nutrition, moderate…

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A healthy business strategy

Most business strategies fail to address the health of the organization. Yes. In literal terms that is.

An organization’s business strategy plans for combating competition in land or foreign, business uncertainties, rising costs of real estate, labor, energy. But a threat lurks deep within its recesses, chipping away at it quietly but constantly. This internal threat comes from factors…

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Emotions define who we are - on the inside and outside

Emotions define who we are – on the inside and outside

Emotional distress can make you obese and poor, apart from making you deeply unhappy. With an unstable emotional state we make poor choices- in food, friends, lifestyle and very obviously finances.

What if we could master our emotional state by getting an understanding on what makes us happy and wise and what doesnt. We can.

At Colorshots we put emotional wellness right up with thefour important…

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Jigsaw of a wellness plan

Most employees remember one odd wellness event that they had fun at. The perception that my organization is invested in wellness is lost in translation. And the year-long initiative translates as added facilities! A pity.

To put the jigsaw of a wellness impact together all you might need is a move away from event-based-wellness program. Wellness plans need cohesion, planning and stickiness. For…

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Planning finances, is it just for income tax filing?

Most of us are guilty of planning our finances around tax filing season to reduce the income tax burden. This has the potential of negative consequences as one can miss out on the long term benefits of well planned investments impacting retirement, medical insurance, life insurance, children’s education funds, taxing saving instruments. We at Colorshots believe that financial wellness is a life…

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ROI on wellness programs. Is there any?

The ROI on Worksite wellness programs is long drawn or never drawn.

Employers struggle to encourage participation, employees wonder what the fuss is all about. Despite investing heavily on wellness programs, costs of which are exceeding inflation by more than five times, the impact and ROI continue to be imperceptible. However, with key metrics, wellness programs can be recorded for shifts, ROI…

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Monsoon and fitness, can it workout?

Is the rain and the over cast sky clouding your fitness routine and dampening your resolve? With the monsoons and the festivals around there is a tendency to indulge ourselves and overeat. But fret not, there are options to have a bit of fun and maintain our fitness during the monsoons as well. In our previous article we saw how to enjoy the monsoon by maintaining nutritional wellness. This time…

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Best practices to achieve peak ROI

ROI on wellness, in its basic form, is a report that is a chinked armor. There are always holes to be punched, data to be questioned and impact that cannot be seen. It’s a wellness officer’s nightmare. For some though it’s a blessing- what cannot be recorded in absolute terms can be manipulated in absolute terms. Questionable impact results in squeezed budgets, diluting program efficacy, and…

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Smart incentive's for great impact

Smart incentive’s for great impact

Incentivizing a wellness program is a given. Smart incentivizing though is a choice.

Among the various options of rewards, cash, gift cards, premium discounting, health premium choices which form complements a wellness program best?

Here is a compilation of different types of incentives with their pros and cons.

Cash or gift cards: This is the most preferred incentive. Wellness programs can be…

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Participation does not equal success

Participation. It’s the easiest metric to record. Used as the only metric it’s also meaningless as participation does not equal impact. And most definitely does not assure meaningful changes in lifestyle choices. ROI on wellness programs should reflect as either reduced costs of healthcare or and absolute cost savings.

Seems simple. Yet more than 90% wellness programs are measured for ROI by…

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Want to get wet in the rain? Eat healthy and seasonally!

Know someone sneezing or coughing or having a running nose? Its a common sight at this time of the year and you’ll see everyone blaming it on the changing seasons. We at Colorshots believe that nutrition is one of the key pillars of wellness and that eating according to the season in each geographic area is important for overall wellness.

India being geographical blessed, there are variety of…

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