The 12th Annual Executive Forum on Rewarding Healthy Behaviors

• Understand EEOC’s revised rules for wellness incentives
• Analyze the interplay between ADA, ACA, HIPAA, and GINA
• Design programs that meet new standards and regulations while fostering a healthy workplace culture

• Leverage the ACA to increase employee participation in strategically designed wellness programs
• Engage employees and minimize costs with incentives and consumer-driven health plans
• Analyze the impact of the “carrot and stick” approach: Understand how a company achieved 98% participation rate in heath programs
• Review penalties for non-participating employees and manage negative responses

• Hear how an organization increased its participation rate from 60% to 90%
• Modify financial incentives to not only create awareness but also to change behavior
• Encourage employees to participate in biometric screenings with financial rewards and incentives
• Learn about monetary rewards proven to motivate unhealthy employees to improve their health
• Develop a fair, progress-based approach to incentives that enables every employee to earn rewards
• Individualize health goals based on employees’ initial health status

• Analyze the effectiveness of incentives as a behavior change strategy
• Explore non-monetary rewards as motivators including recognition, bragging rights, gym memberships, and certificates
• Capitalize on intrinsic motivators to achieve positive behavior change and well-being
• Explore generational issues in the context of rewards and participation

• Learn how team-based activities, challenges, and competitions motivate employees to achieve their well-being goals
• Drive participation with community partnerships and Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives
• Sustain engagement by offering rewards for progress and completion to the entire group
• Gain strategies to effectively combine social and financial incentives to maximize results

• Discuss the use of online portals to instill healthy behaviors
• Employ user-friendly apps for a diverse workforce: Address the needs of Baby Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millennials
• Leverage gamification techniques and award points to motivate employee participation in well-being initiatives

• Utilize automated kiosks as a scalable solution to achieve measurable outcomes
• Learn how push-based health coaching from certified personal trainers and registered dietitians boosts engagement and retention while developing healthy lifestyle habits and lowering BMIs
• Leverage social media to encourage individuals to play an active role in their health
• Collaborate with the local community for successful program implementation
• Understand innovations in personalized health care, physical activity trackers, and social applications — How do they impact outcomes?

• Build an intentional culture that directly ties to business strategy
• Motivate employees and reduce their health risks with a culturally-relevant well-being program and a meaningful incentive structure
• Improve employee involvement in well-being with strategic communication and C-suite engagement

• Strike a balance between incentivized and non-incentivized programs and services: Learn about
• Rewards embedded in medical/health account options and condition management programs
• Wellness opportunities offered without incentives
• Work with employees to identify and overcome their health and well-being issues with personalized programs
• Identify high-cost and high-risk populations for targeted programming and service interventions
• Focus on all aspects of well-being including physical, financial, and emotional
• Make wellness a part of an employee’s daily workplace conversation
  • Offer healthy meals at work, fitness classes, health coaching, and counselors to help employees adopt positive behaviors and lead healthier lifestyles

• Integrate wellness initiatives with the organization’s employee engagement strategy to reduce turnover rates
• Understand how a comprehensive well-being and rewards program motivates employees to perform better
• Communicate health and well-being programs and incentives during hiring and on-boarding to engage employees and create awareness about the organization’s culture of health

Attendees choose the topic area which interests them most and engage in small group discussion for 35 minutes. Key learnings are shared as a group for the last 10 minutes.