The Well Workplace Process (including our all-new Well Workplace Award and Well Workplace Checklist takes WELCOA members on a journey from evaluation and education to validation and designation.
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At WELCOA, we believe that healthy, happy employees are the key to creating thriving organizations. We believe that organizations that prioritize the wellness of their people should be recognized and celebrated. Part of the important work of positioning wellness front and center is being clear about what we mean when we talk about wellness. For the first time in WELCOA’s history, we are publishing a wellness definition that Members and the Industry-at-large will use to gauge how they are doing in regard to employee wellness.
The wellness that WELCOA is interested in is specifically the kind that we believe can be accomplished through employers, workplace wellness programs and organizational cultures. We are not proclaiming this definition to be an all-encompassing model; we are putting a stake in the ground about a bigger broader form of wellness and creating tools to set up environmental cultures that can drive that sort of workplace wellness.
To that end, we have arrived at these seven distinctive elements of wellness. While we acknowledge the traditional markers of wellness that have driven our approaches to date, what actually contributes to individual wellness is much broader and more profound.
Wellness is the active pursuit to understand and fulfill your individual human needs—which allows you to reach a state where you are flourishing and able to realize your full potential in all aspects of life. Every person has wellness aspirations.
Successful workplace wellness initiatives require supporting employees in fulfilling their needs in these seven areas:
This is wellness. This is how we define it. Everything that we are creating stands to measure and achieve that definition. WELCOA’s vision is to set new standards for employee wellness initiatives and organizational cultures by quantifying the value of healthy, happy employees to recognize and celebrate the healthiest places to work.
Download WELCOA’s Definition of Wellness
Learn more about WELCOA’s evolved 7 Benchmarks Process for creating happy, healthy thriving workplaces.