How Corporate Wellness Coaching Benefits Organizations and Employees
Organizations are seeking solutions to help their employees manage stress, improve their mental health, and feel empowered to make lasting lifestyle changes. Innovative offerings such as corporate wellness coaching allow organizations to nurture their most valuable asset — their people — with personalized support tailored to each individual’s needs and aspirations. Let’s explore how corporate wellness coaching not only inspires employees to make meaningful changes but also strengthens the organizational culture for vitality, productivity, and fulfillment to flourish.
Health and Wellness Coaching in the Workplace
In this post:
2. Benefits of Holistic Wellness Coaching as a Corporate Wellness Offering
a. Health and Wellness Coaching in Action
3. Best Practices for Implementing Corporate Wellness Coaching
What is Wellness Coaching?
Wellness coaching is a collaborative process between a coach and a client that focuses on enhancing the client’s well-being and quality of life. Using various techniques such as active listening, asking/answering impactful questions, providing guidance, educating, and offering accountability, wellness coaches help clients set realistic and achievable goals, break them down into manageable steps, and problem-solve along the way.
Board-certified health and wellness coaches are professional, knowledgeable, proactive, empathetic, dedicated, and often driven by a personal passion and area of expertise. They form connections with each client by understanding where they are now, where they want to be, and the challenges they face in getting there. Corporate wellness coaches assist employees with the following aspects of well-being, including but not limited to:
- Chronic disease management, insulin resistance, prediabetes, preventive health, cardiac rehab, bariatrics
- Weight loss, muscle building, toning, fitness planning, injury prevention
- Functional nutrition, emotional eating, plant-based eating, mindful eating
- Hormonal balance, menopause support, hormone/liver/gut health
- Habit formation, mindset transformation
- Stress management, mindfulness, positive lifestyle choices, living purposefully
- Pre/post partum exercise & nutrition
- Fragmented sleep, insomnia
Depending on the client’s needs and preferences, a wellness coaching session can include personal training, exercise and nutrition planning, health education, meditation, strategy, or simply discussion. Corporate health and wellness coaching aims to guide and support employees in taking responsibility for their well-being and self-directed behavior change to achieve a more balanced and fulfilling life.
Benefits of Holistic Wellness Coaching as a Corporate Wellness Offering
Holistic health transcends the traditional approach of focusing on physical fitness, instead recognizing that well-being encompasses physical, mental, and emotional dimensions. While there is a time and place for group-based wellness initiatives, one of the key benefits of corporate wellness coaching lies in its personalized, customized approach. Coaches work closely with employees to understand their individual needs, goals, and challenges, and develop tailored, sustainable strategies that align with their lifestyle and values. Some client examples would be:- I want to feel stronger and more energetic
- I want a healthier relationship with food
- I’m trying to maintain my weight by focusing on nutrition, but I have a road trip/vacation coming up
- I want to enjoy snacks and drinks during football season without consuming too many extra calories
- I need exercise modifications while still moving the scale
- I want to rebuild muscle after a significant weight loss
- I want to build resilience to approach each day with greater optimism
- I want to learn more about prediabetes management
Health and Wellness Coaching in Action
One of Strive’s most highly engaged wellness offerings, one-on-one virtual wellness coaching programs attract employees with little effort or internal administration from your teams. The personalized, collaborative, and private experience neutralizes the need for extrinsic incentives, and the virtual space is flexible and convenient for busy employees. Participant feedback following the conclusion of our first few programs revealed just how effective corporate wellness coaching is. Sentiments expressed by our clients:
Each program ran for a duration of three months, with each participant receiving six, 30-min sessions with their wellness coach. The number of participants varied for each organization based on their size and budget, and clients gravitated toward a cadence of two 3-month programs annually.