Companies and employers want productive healthy individuals who show up and take pride in their work. They want the best for their employees, especially when it comes to their learning, safety, performance, attendance and engagement.

They leave lifestyle and wellness strategies to the individual employee and their healthcare provider. However, biometric data reveals employees are facing major metabolic disturbances in their health and well-being. So, how can a company take part in helping employees improve their long-term health?

As a national board-certified health and wellness coach, Mysty brings the experience and expertise of the behavior change process to the workplace.

Building more confident, functioning employees takes some training, but the payoff is huge! Identifying a person’s needs, values and beliefs, plus their thoughts and emotions through coaching helps align the person with purpose.

A person with purpose has more confidence, autonomy, and competence. They work more efficiently and support a strong team approach to succeed.

What Workplace Wellness Programs Look Like

Mysty’s 12-to-24-week program motivates and empowers employees to attain permanent lifestyle change for better health. Through education, mindset work, group wellness coaching, and workshops, employees will gain the tools and confidence needed for developing a healthier life.

Metabolic Health is a problem worldwide. In America almost 87.5% of healthcare cost claims are a result of lifestyle choices.

You have an opportunity to educate and empower employees to make intentional healthy choices a daily habit through Mysty’s 12 to 24-week Metabolic and Hormone Optimization Program.

Need #1: Educate employees on nutrition, lifestyle factors affecting health, exercise, fatty liver, prediabetes, & cardiovascular disease. Plus, the latest evidence and support of GLP-1 optimization (with or without the shot!).
Need #2: Assess employee internal strengths/motivation level/ stage of change/mindset.
Need #3: Implement tools and strategies to empower employees in healthier decision making, how to plan for obstacles, begin an activity plan, improve lifestyle, weight, and biometric markers for life.

The Opportunity

Employees will be encouraged to brainstorm ideas for activity, eating patterns, increasing fruits and vegetables, decreasing sugar and alcohol, improving sleep, coping with stress, and emotions.

Goal #1: Improve knowledge of metabolic disease and complications
Goal #2: Present a healthier vision of wellness for each employee
Goal #3: Prepare employees for lifestyle change and management
Goal#4: Gain confidence meal prepping, improved stress management, sleep patterns, and maneuvering social situations that provide multiple temptations.

The Solution

The solution for increasing healthy behavior and curbing risk of lifestyle-related disease provides a big picture for future success in the following ways:

Recommendation #1: Assess mindset/nutrition/disease/lifestyle knowledge and employee needs to prevent future complications. This includes assessments of stress, coping skills, and sleep habits.
Recommendation #2: Educate and establish individual wellness vision and decisional balance training for making intentional choices daily. Very few people make health changes due to scare tactics. They do respond when they find their “why”. They need small steps that make a big impact and strategies they can incorporate into their daily lives.
Recommendation #3: Implement a change model that builds on a person’s strengths, values, beliefs, and self-perceptions. Using motivational interviewing and value assessments establishes a vision for promoting and maintaining healthy behavior.

How Workplace Wellness Provides Better Health Outcomes

The opportunity to assess and evaluate biometric parameters on site with employees giving them a chance to recognize early signs of metabolic syndrome. Greater cardiac risk factors are a concern for employees with metabolic syndrome.

Employees are intelligent and open to ideas of improving their livelihood. Understanding how ultra-processed food affects quality of life for the employee and their families is a strong starting point for behavior change.

Sleep, stress, and coping are lifestyle factors that affect frame of mind during work hours and eating habits.

Since 88% of the American population suffers from metabolic disease, connecting fake food and lifestyle to prevention is powerful for making daily choices.

Being aware of the impact of poor eating habits and increased infection rates in their children is also a motivating factor for employees considering healthier options.

Overall, a Metabolic Restart Program can:

Increase healthy behavior and reduce risk for lifestyle related disease
Provide a solid return on investment
Boost productivity and quality work
Have the ability to elevate company satisfaction

Risks of what might be lost if appropriate action is not taken for the workforce:

49% of working women have no choice but to miss work when their child is sick, averaging 3.5 sick days per year just for their children
Poor eating habits and nutrition related diseases are major contributors to sickness in both adults and children
Parents are more likely to make lifestyle changes for themselves if it benefits their children (our future workforce).

As the metabolic restart coach for this 12–24-week program, MPWC bringsexperienced nursing knowledge and Master Certified training in health and wellness coaching. I will use my 30 years of nursing experience to provide the most up-to-date science and proven tools to affect lifestyle behaviors and wellness.

Rationale for Workplace Wellness

The 12 to 24-week health coaching approach gives employees the opportunity to adjust behavior as they navigate the stages of change. Exploring mindsets, and connecting values to behavior through this process teaches them self-efficacy.

Similar 12-week cardiac rehabilitation programs show reduced risk of heart attacks and mortality in participants, as well as reduced hospitalizations.
Similar manufacturing companies incorporate a company-wide biometric reward system to reduce health expenditures for employees. (Example $500 in their HSA account)
The program is in line with workplace missions of improving people’s lives and looking forward as each team member takes responsibility for their future.
Employers can offer healthier snacks in the breakroom, incentives for improved biomarkers, on-site opportunities for yearly lab draws, health coaching and education.

Execution Strategy

The execution strategy for this project is a hands-on approach with proven coaching methodologies, motivational interviewing, appreciative coaching, and evaluation of personal strengths. Meal prepping ideas and taste testing opportunities will be provided to expand employee palates.

Technical/Project Approach

Participants will attend weekly, one hour, group coaching session for 12-to-24 weeks. Ideally, on site and during working hours. Weigh-ins are optional. Activity tracking tools are reviewed. Development of SMART goals and progression through the stages of change are outlined and tracked. Evaluation tools for stress management, pre and post-tests to evaluate learning, and nutrition surveys pre and post program are utilized.

Qualifications

Mysty Pfeffer Wellness Coaching is dedicated to improving community health in the Ohio Valley for many years to come. The experience of working with an aging population as a registered nurse and obtaining National Board Certification in Wellness Coaching qualifies her to prepare employees and their families for the challenge of maintaining health in a chronically ill culture.

Vision –Reduce chronic disease risk factors for adults and their families for years to come.
Inspiration –Seeing families thrive and living happier lives
Flexibility –Willing to accommodate the schedules of employees and arrive on site for each group session and make it convenient for them to attend while at work.

The strengths MPWC brings to this project are knowledge, compassion, nonjudgmental attitude, ability to explain things clearly, and being responsive to employee needs. Mysty’s past experience in workplace wellness, biometric coaching, diabetes education, and master’s in psychology/life coaching prepare her for this project.