A Movement of Motion Underway at Healthstat
Health and Wellness Provider Walks the Walk with Manager on the Move
ATLANTA, Sept. 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthstat, Inc. has become the first workplace health and wellness provider to implement Manager on the Move, an assessment and training tool designed to enhance managerial impact on well-being at work. Gallup research shows that though more than 85% of large employers offer a wellness program, only 24% of employees are participating. The research also finds that managers account for at least 70% of the variance in employee engagement in their well-being at work. Manager on the Move assesses the extent to which managers are multipliers who lead by example, communicate the importance of well-being, and create an infrastructure to support well-being.
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Speaking Tuesday at a national healthcare symposium in Atlanta, Manager on the Move co-creators Dr. Sara Johnson, co-President and CEO of Pro-Change Behavior Systems, and Laura Putnam, CEO of Motion Infusion and author of Workplace Wellness That Works, applauded Healthstat CEO Crockett Dale for his bold commitment to ensure that health and well-being were being promoted and practiced internally within his own organization.
Healthstat currently provides workplace health and wellness services to 140 employers across the U.S., which includes managing and operating more than 300 onsite health centers for a combined employee and dependent population of more than 300,000 people.
"Like many organizations in the business of health, Healthstat needed to do more to promote health and well-being internally," explained Dale. "Manager on the Move brought this revelation to light and has ushered in a whole new movement of well-being for our entire company. When our employees are at their best and fully energized, we can also better engage our clinic participants. We are raising engagement levels across our entire sphere of influence."
Given that managers have a cascading effect beginning with their own team members, the objective of the Manager on the Move Workshop is to enable managers to be "multipliers" of well-being. The highly interactive workshop starts by providing a rationale for well-being initiatives and highlighting the manager's critical role in promoting multiple domains of well-being within their teams. The focus then shifts to the three dimensions of managerial influence in which the manager can act as a change agent:
| Do: |
Embody well-being and lead by example; |
| Speak: |
Persuade team members to join through explicit and effective communication; |
| Create: |
Optimize the environment and design systems to develop an infrastructure to make well-being easy and "normal." |
Over the course of one to two days, participants engage in a combination of individual, small-group, and whole-group activities to create their own emotional and logical business cases for well-being; participate in walking meetings; reflect on their past participation in well-being initiatives and on their own well-being in six domains; set goals; create memos for their teams as a way to explicitly communicate about well-being; and brainstorm cues (cultural prompts) and nudges (environmental prompts) that can promote well-being, including stealth opportunities to make well-being part of ongoing organizational activities.
At Healthstat, some of the strategies managers learned to put into effect included empowering employees to take intermittent stretch breaks and to conduct meetings while walking outside. Putnam's book "Workplace Wellness That Works" was provided to every employee at no cost and weekly walking book clubs now take place for employees to discuss it in depth. Healthstat has also implemented nudges and cues throughout its physical environment, such as installing standing desks and treadmill desks; making stairwells the cultural norm instead of elevators; and injecting motion into every meeting.
A post-assessment of managers at Healthstat found that among those classified as "suffering" or "struggling" at pre-test, 63.6% progressed to "thriving" after participation in Manager on the Move. It also found that in addition to overall improvements in employee morale, Healthstat has experienced a decrease in presenteeism — the problem of workers being on the job but because of illness or other medical conditions, not fully functioning. According to researchers, presenteeism can cut individual productivity by one-third or more and can thus be a much costlier problem than its counterpart, absenteeism.
In closing his presentation at the HERO Forum, Dale said, "In a matter of days, Manager on the Move inspired Healthstat managers to become agents of change who, in turn, provide care and well-being for 300,000 people. Most importantly, it was not a 'one and done' for us. Manager on the Move has transformed us, and we have created something that is sustainable."
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