Bringing Wellness into the Workplace

The Substantial Solutions Ultimate Wellness Program is comprehensive and fully integrated. It is an ideal way to turn a serious challenge into a win-win team effort. Realistically, the work place has more potential to influence adult behavior than any other social setting in American society.

The worksite provides access to communication tools, incentives, repeat exposure, and possible social and cultural reinforcement, all of which provide the long-term potential to influence behavior and lifestyle choices.

How does your program work?

While the medical model focuses on the treatment of illnesses, our program focuses on the mind-sets, skills and habits that support the body’s natural ability to achieve and maintain vibrant health. We understand that every health challenge, no matter how complex or systemic, is caused by a malfunction at a cellular level.

Our program is designed to give your employees a solid understanding of what it takes to be healthy and why each program component is important. With daily three to five minute online modules, we teach them the few critical things they need to do in order to get 80 percent or more of the benefits of the five key areas that make wellness possible.

Once a firm foundation in these five essential areas of the program is established, more in-depth learning is presented and employees can choose the order in which they pursue each topic. Cutting edge weight management and smoking cessation programs are available options. We also offer studies and programs to empower your high-end users to move into lower risk categories. You choose whether to roll out the program in full or in stages for all of your beneficiaries.

Our integrated tracking system correlates wellness efforts with cost reduction allowing us to provide you with any aggregate HIPAA compliant data you may need to demonstrate the improvements in the health of your employees for internal or external purposes.

Do you incorporate behavior modification techniques into the basic educational design of your program?

Substantial Solutions understands that creating new and better habits has to be done one step at a time. Based on breakthrough research and progressive ideas from a wide selection of leaders in medicine, science, and business, the three keys to change – relating, repeating, and reframing – help people to make dramatic transformations that are positive and attainable.

We use the transtheoretical model of behavior change or ‘stage theory’ when dealing with smoking cessation and weight management, where issues of addiction and habit are strongest. We also use incentives, which provide extrinsic motivation while we help your employees to find their intrinsic motivation and build self-esteem and confidence.

How do you know your program works?

Each aspect of our program is based on decades of state-of the-art scientific research and proven results with thousands of individuals in both private and corporate settings. When you arrange for a private viewing of our program we can show you the synergistic impact on health of the five key areas of our program.

How do you get employee buy-in?

We explain the realities of why health benefit costs are rising for both employers and employees. We introduce the Substantial Solutions Wellness program as a way to reverse this trend and allow them to receive a broad spectrum of new wellness benefits We also invite them to participate in the customization process to encourage their ownership and participation.

What kind of follow-up and support do you offer?

Follow-up and support are built into our program through phone and web conferencing, use of partners for accountability and participation support. There are also workshops you can make available to your employees, a call center, a Doctor/Nurse help line, newsletters, reference articles and email and chat support.

We help you set up and maintain a work-site wellness team. We then continue to support the team through your Substantial Solutions account representative who will help the team establish incentive, recognition and local wellness events.

Through a subsidiary website, we make available high quality supplements and other wellness products at substantial discounts.

How do you sustain the changes?

Substantial Solutions is in this with you for the duration. We help you to create and sustain an environment that proclaims good employee health is good business.

However, for long-term success the most critical factor is having strong support and participation from senior and mid-level management since everybody stands in the shadow of the leader.