Why Wellbeing programs fail?

Despite your best intentions and efforts are your wellbeing programs falling short of the long-term outcomes you hoped to achieve? With global spending reported to be now over forty billion dollars a year on programs targeting the physical, mental and social wellbeing in workplaces, it’s heart-breaking to realize that generally employee’s unhappiness and stress levels at work continue to rise. So what might your wellbeing program be missing?

In my opinion to truly have an impact on the overall wellbeing of your employees, you need to incorporate behavioral science into your wellbeing strategy and to teach employees how to build habits that help them achieve their wellbeing goals. A culture of positive habit building will lead to better employee performance.

What does this look like in practice?

These are the steps for long-lasting habit formation and change for employees:

1. Focus on the Right Behavior – the key is to match employees to the behaviors they want to and are ready to change.
2. Make it Easy – break behaviors down into easy to understand and easy to do actions
3. Trigger It – create the spark to change those behaviors
4. Reward Success – cement habit change by celebrating success
5. Practice and Repeat – build new skills with daily repetition and practice

You want to learn more about building positive habits, I can recommend you the following

 Website: www.virginpulse.com

 Books:

• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

 Videos: How Behavior works by Dr BJ Fogg

Whitepapers: Equation Behavior Change quick read by Dr BJ Fogg