Wellbeing 3.0 Webinar: Designing Wellbeing That People Love (and CFOs, Too!)

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In 2022, Baystate Health boldly re-designed its award-winning employee wellness program to better meet the moment. The Baystate team centered the new design on root causes of wellbeing: compassion, connection, purpose, social determinants, and emotional wellbeing. Now the team is exceeding engagement goals through creative use of re-imagined social challenges paired with an innovative social-good incentive model.

Watch this webinar and learn practical and proven new ways to:
– Design to better meet employee needs today, and better leverage your benefits (without busting your budget!)
– Align wellbeing benefits and culture initiatives to fortify employee experience
– Reallocate incentive spend to get more change that sticks (rather than just paying for clicks)
– Use personal purpose to help boost employee engagement & retention across the salary spectrum.

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Watch — PurposeCast: Purpose 101

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Sometimes the question, “What’s your purpose?” can leave people feeling stumped, and some may be wondering why purpose matters.

Watch our special PurposeCast event, Purpose 101 with Dr. Vic Strecher. Vic leads a free, 45-minute minicourse designed to help you learn about the foundation of purpose, the science behind its importance, and practical ways you can uncover and apply your purpose in life and work.

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Watch — PurposeCast: Purpose and Values

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Our values shape our purpose, and the start of the year is a perfect time to reflect on what we value and why.

Watch the recording to hear neuroscientist Dr. Emily Falk and Dr. Vic Strecher discuss the way we adopt our values and how purpose and values help us live for what matters most.

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The Benefits of Gratitude and Compassion

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Thanksgiving is a time to reflect and express gratitude for our blessings and to share our love and kindness with others. However, it can also be a challenging time when we are aware of the wars and conflicts that are happening around the world — and the death and suffering that they cause. How can we perhaps shift our perspective and approach this season with a compassionate and hopeful heart? How can we use gratitude and compassion to lead a more purposeful life?

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Rethink or Reboot? Five Things We Heard You Say About Workforce Wellbeing

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We recently completed a deep dive interview project with HR and Benefits leaders representing a diverse array of industries – consumer goods, insurance, manufacturing, high tech, healthcare, consulting, financial services, engineering, energy, and food services. We wanted to know if they were indeed rethinking wellbeing. We asked about business drivers in play now, and challenged them to grade their current wellbeing programs and platforms. We asked what “better” would look like, and tested new ideas for resonance.

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Making an Impact – Leadership on Purpose

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Having a purpose in life can make you a better leader in many ways. Our research with organizations shows that many common leadership attributes are enhanced in those who are guided by a strong connection to their purpose in life. By aligning your actions with your values and vision, you gain a clear direction and intention in life that guides your decisions and behaviors. You can better communicate your vision and values to others, inspire them to follow you, and motivate yourself and others to achieve your goals.

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A Vitamin or an Aspirin?

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What does taking care of one’s health really mean? Are Purposeful users looking for a “vitamin,” something that makes you even better than you currently are? Or, are they in need of an “aspirin,” that is, trying to fix something that’s gone wrong? We ask this question amongst ourselves at Kumanu: are we building an application that fixes people’s problems or one that helps people become even better? Can you do both?

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