PODCAST: #HRHappyHour 383 - Improving Health and Wellbeing at Work and in the Community

HR Happy Hour 383 - Improving Health and Wellbeing at Work and in the Community

Hosts: Steve Boese

Guest: Tim State, Senior Vice President of Associate Health and Wellbeing, Humana

Sponsored by Culture Amp, the platform that turns your company culture into a competitive advantage. Your employee data tells you what's happened in the past, but what if it could tell you what might happen next. See how with your free Predictive Analytics report at www.cultureamp.com/happy

Listen HERE

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we were joined by Tim State of Humana, to talk about workplace health and employee wellbeing, and how Humana approaches wellbeing both inside their organization, and with the member organizations and employees they serve. Humana's 42K employees are focused on people, their wellbeing, and provides products and services to millions of people in the US and strives to help people reach their best health and life long wellbeing.

On the show Tim shared some of the innovative approaches they utilize with their associates - seeing wellbeing as a personal and individual journey to help each associate reach their wellbeing goals.At Humana they have developed a common language and mindset to holistic wellbeing, which has helped people understand their own journey. Their four dimensions of wellbeing - purpose, health, belonging, and security - which is the foundation of overall wellbeing have helped the organization define, program, measure, and improve wellbeing at work. Learn more about Humana here.

You can listen to the show on the show page HERE, on your favorite podcast app, or by using the widget player below:

Remember to subscribe to the HR Happy Hour Show wherever you get your podcasts, just search for 'HR Happy Hour'.

PODCAST: #HRHappyHour 318 - Virgin Pulse Thrive Summit Report: Helping Employees Thrive

HR Happy Hour 318 - Virgin Pulse Thrive Summit Report: Helping Employees Thrive

Host: Steve Boese

Guests: Aimée Dodson, Thrive Director, Movement Mortgage; David Osborne, CEO, Virgin Pulse

Recorded live at the Virgin Pulse Thrive Summit in Miami Beach, Florida

Listen HERE

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we return for our annual visit to Virgin Pulse's customer conference - the Thrive Summit where Steve sat down with Aimée Dodson from Movement Mortgage, and Virgin Pulse CEO David Osborne to talk wellbeing, engagement, and how organizations can help their people thrive at work and at home too. David shared an update on what has been happening at Virgin Pulse, but more importantly how the goal of helping organizations and their people succeed with their goals - health, financial, and more - and how leading companies are thinking about wellness more expansively and holistically - and how that drives important business and personal outcomes.

 Aimée then dug into some very specific details on Movement Mortgage's "Thrive" program - a comprehensive approach centerered around caring for their employees in four areas - health and wellness, family and relationships, personal finance, and community service. Movement is doing some incredibly innovative and successful things in their employee wellbeing efforts and Aimée shared examples like their 'Couch to 5K', 'Lose $1M in debt', and how they used social media to engage employees in these programs.

You can listen to the show on the show page HERE, with your favorite podcast app, or by using the widget player below:

Thanks to Aimée and David for joining me and thanks as always to Virgin Pulse for all the support.

Subscribe to the HR Happy Hour wherever you get your podcasts - just search for 'HR Happy Hour.'

WEBINAR: The Business Value of Employee Wellbeing

Quick announcement and an invitation to join me at my friends from Virgin Pulse next Wednesday, September 6 at 2PM ET for a FREE webinar on The Business Value of Employee Wellbeing.

This is an incredibly interesting topic, one that I have written about previously at HR Executive and about which Trish McFarlane and I did a recent HR Happy Hour Podcast on.

Details for next weeks' webinar are here:

Employees today are working more hours, taking less time off, more stressed, exercising less and falling short of reaching their potential – at work and at home. Successful HR and benefits leaders are smarter and more thoughtful about how wellbeing programs have an impact in driving desired people and business outcomes.

Join "The Business Value of Employee Wellbeing" with Steve Boese (that's me), long-time HR industry influencer and co-founder of H3HR Advisors. Steve will share his unique perspectives from having served in product development, enterprise HR and benefits system management, as an industry analyst, and now a popular industry voice and thought leader. Andrew Jacobus, Vice President of Insights and Data Science at the Virgin Pulse Institute, will share real-life examples of organizations achieving improvements to their bottom line due to the effectiveness of their employee wellbeing programs.

On the webinar you will hear:

What key elements of wellbeing programs drive business results

Which metrics illustrate employee wellbeing’s impact on productivity, performance, and revenue

How to drive engagement through social connections and a personalized experience

And more...

It should be a fun an interesting session and I hope you can join.

Register for the webinar here.

Hope to see you then!

PODCAST - #HRHappyHour 287 - The Business Value of Employee Wellbeing

HR Happy Hour 287 - The Business Value of Employee Wellbeing

Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane

Guest: Dr. Rajiv Kumar, Chief Medical Officer, Virgin Pulse

Listen HERE

This week on the HR Happy Hour show, Steve and Trish are live at the Virgin Pulse Thrive Summit and are joined by Dr. Rajiv Kumar, Chief Medical Officer of Virgin Pulse to talk about employee experience, wellbeing, and the business value of investing in employee wellbeing.

Virgin Pulse has now become the leading provider of employee wellbeing solutions, and their commitment to the overall employee experience, the central role that employee wellbeing plays in shaping that experience is evidenced by their approach to creating engaging solutions that focus on the employee and their health.

Rajiv shared his thoughts on how wellbeing initiatives not only drive benefits like increased retention, decreased absenteeism, and reduced employer health care costs, but also have been shown to lead to positive business outcomes - sales, productivity, market capitalization and more. He also offered some ideas to help HR and business leaders make the business case for investing in employee wellbeing programs.

You can listen to the show on the show page HERE, or by using the widget player below, or on your favorite podcast app.

Treat your employees right and they will treat your customers right - that idea is at the core of what Virgin Pulse is all about.

This was a fun show and many thanks to Virgin Pulse for having us at Thrive, and for supporting the HR Happy Hour Show.

Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts - just search for 'HR Happy Hour'.