Wellness Coaching helps motivate employees

As a wellness coach, I connect employees with tools and resources that align with their health and wellbeing goals.

Wellness coaches are credentialed, certified and experienced in your corporate and local cultures. We offer both one-on-one and group coaching sessions to help employees create and realise their goals through these best practices. 

As an accredited wellness coach, I focus on creating a confidential space in which employees can share their fears and struggles with a supportive partner. Many of the employees I support are driven and work in high-pressure environments, so I start by building their trust and confidence.

Once we have a foundation of trust, Wellness Coaching is about helping employees decide what they really want and then holding them accountable. Throughout the process, I provide support as they take steps towards achieving their goals.

In their first one-on-one coaching session, I will get to know the employee and try to understand what they want to change. I then start building the structure for success:

• Defining where they are now and where they want to go
• Connecting them to available resources
• Outlining what support they may need
• Deciding what the employee is ready to work on first

Wellness coaches help employees overcome their stressors by bringing awareness to everyday habits and empowering them to make better choices backed by expert support and guidance. To help employees break down their goals into daily habits, I ask:

• What kind of person do you want to become?
• What habits does a person like that have?

For example, if they want to have more energy, their habits might include going to bed earlier, drinking more water and exercising regularly. To be someone with good work-life balance, they may focus on finishing work on time, dedicating focus time for large projects and improving communication with their manager.

Helping employees successfully implement that plan is the real challenge. A lot of our work is developing boundaries and overcoming barriers. I help them connect to their motivation for change by knowing what’s important to them.

Thus, one growing challenge for managing costs related to GLP-1 medicines is the sheer complexity and rapid activity in the drug pipeline. In fact, the term “GLP-1 drug” itself is becoming somewhat restrictive as researchers create drugs targeting other incretin hormones.

For example, 2 drugs based on the molecule tirzepatide, Mounjaro for diabetes and Zepbound for obesity, work by targeting both GLP-1 receptors and another incretin hormone known as gastric inhibitory polypeptide or GIP. The fact that 2 drugs with the same chemical composition have different names, indications and list prices only underscores the complexities plan sponsors must account for when developing a GLP-1/GIP approach.

In addition to these dual agonists already available, a triple hormone receptor agonist drug is currently in clinical trials. In all, there are currently 45 GLP-1/GIP drugs intended for obesity in the pipeline. Many of these drugs feature novel mechanisms of action or routes of administration and this increased competition may eventually exert downward pressure on pricing.

Your employees need more than a blanket approach. Wellness Coaching provides individualized support for each person’s goals that works with your overall employee assistance program.

Learn more about our Global Employee Assistance Program (EAP).