August 2013 Benefits of Health Coaching When companies begin their wellness journey, they often begin with a health assessment and biometric screening. The goal is for participants to understand their health numbers and identify areas where they are doing well and potential health risk areas. The next step is to determine what avenue to take to help employees recognize and change those health behaviors.
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Company-sponsored health coaching is one option that will assist employees in making healthier choices. Those who are ready to make lifestyle changes can benefit from this one-on-one approach. Lifestyle habits are difficult to break and many people need this direct approach to help them succeed in changing behaviors. A health coach can provide support and develop strategies to help individuals increase physical activity, make better food choices, quit tobacco, work through stress, and more. Along with health newsletters, seminars, behavior-change campaigns and a healthy work culture, health coaching makes a difference. When individuals are successful in making a healthy lifestyle change, companies are successful with increased productivity, decreased absenteeism and overall healthier employees.
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Activate uses a participant-centered approach to help individuals identify health goals and encourage healthy behaviors by focusing on their desire to change. The foundation of HealthSource Solutions’ health coaching is based on concepts of motivational interviewing, using the premise that participants are their own best expert in how to change their lifestyle. Activate helps your employees build an individualized program that creates and supports positive lifestyle behavior changes. Elements of our health coaching include:
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• Goal-setting discussions • Educational materials and resources on lifestyle topics • Referrals to company resources (EAP, nurse line, disease management, etc) Activate is offered to any size company with no participant minimum requirement. Call HealthSource Solutions for more information.
Coaching Success Story Coldspring, a manufacturing company in central Minnesota, has been offering comprehensive wellness programming since 2005. Recently, they offered the Activate health coaching program to all employees who were ready to make lifestyle changes. The goal was to not only reach individuals with higher risks, but also to keep the healthy people healthy. Here is what one participant said about her coaching experience: The reason I registered for the Activate Health Coaching program was to seek accurate information regarding daily protein requirements. I am not a vegetarian, but I do not particularly enjoy eating meat. I enjoy fruits, vegetables and most carbohydrates but recognize the need for protein. There is so much information available that it is overwhelming to sort through.The Activate coach was phenomenal, providing me with the daily recommendation, together with nonmeat protein alternatives. She also recommended utilization of a user friendly website for ease in determining daily protein intake, which I enjoy for calorie counting, daily exercise logging and more! The Activate coach recommended reasonable deadlines for me to meet goals, scheduled follow-up calls, and was very encouraging and resourceful every time—it was a collaborative effort for my benefit. It truly felt as though I had a personal coach to help me meet my goals, from start to finish. This was a very positive experience, and my coach consistently inquired whether there was anything else she could do to help me meet my goals, and whether there were any other questions or issues to address.The coaches are there for you every step of the way, but it is up to you to be “ready” to participate. Only you can make changes to your lifestyle. Most people need a nudge in the right direction, and the Activate coaches are a great resource.
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