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"What was life like before COVID?"

Once upon a time, many of us believed that one day in the distant future, our children or our children’s children would ask us what life was like during the COVID pandemic. As we start to accept that any sense of normalcy might be history, it’s also starting to feel like our children or our children’s children might instead ask us “what was life like before COVID?”

The same can be said for large and small businesses, higher education, and any organization that relies on people working toward a shared purpose. While COVID’s disruption of the physical world has constrained economic growth, its impact on people’s emotional wellbeing is creating major problems for organizations in the forms of record-breaking resignations, explosive politics, and strains on human connection & collaboration. 

How can organizations keep their people thriving as we navigate our shared future? The answers must be rooted in foundational wellbeing, belonging, and authenticity for organizations to be nimble enough to flow from where we are today to where we’re going tomorrow.

Where to start? Center your organization around a shared commitment to help people bring their whole selves to their whole lives. 

What's New at Kumanu?

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Purposeful Demo: The “Show Me” Session

Are you shopping for a better wellbeing platform? If so, you’re not alone. Surveys show about half of your peers are shopping right now.

You owe it to yourself to consider Kumanu. Kumanu’s Purposeful is the first purpose-inspired wellbeing platform. That means more change that sticks (and less pay for clicks).

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AI Coach: An Angel on Your Shoulder

Purposeful has integrated good theory with artificial intelligence to create AI Coach, an “angel on your shoulder”, providing an effective tool for preventing both mental and physical health problems.

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Kumanu Launches AI Coach to Elevate Whole Person Wellbeing

Kumanu, the leading purpose-inspired wellbeing company, announces the launch of the latest version of its flagship platform, Purposeful, featuring AI Coach. AI Coach incorporates evidence-based principles of behavior change to deliver an engaging and impactful digital health coaching experience.

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The Power of Positive Relationships with Dr. Jane Dutton

Our sense of connection to the people around us influences our personal outlook. Daily interactions have a real impact on our mood, our energy levels and our motivation. High-quality connections can light us up with a sense of vitality. Join Dr. Jane Dutton and Dr. Vic Strecher for this PurposeCast where they will discuss building high-quality connections. They will explore: What are high-quality connections? The benefits of positive relationships for individuals and organizations. How can we build strong and healthy relationships?

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Top Consultants Talk About the Way Forward in Wellbeing (Part 2)

What are your barriers to change in wellbeing design?

We polled participants at our April and early May “Learn from the Leaders” sessions.

Here’s what we found:

Fully 89% of you are “recalculating your route to better wellbeing.”

More than half see “competing priorities,” as their biggest barrier, closely followed by budget, leadership alignment, and lack of a clear roadmap to get there.

Our next webinar in this series will focus on these challenges. Join wellbeing innovation leaders at Willis Towers Watson: John Bremen, Amy DeVylder Levanat, and Wendy Poirier in discussion with our own Eric Zimmerman.

Discover:
– What is driving the employee wellbeing budget now?
– Where employer needs and employee wants intersect.
– How wellbeing, culture and performance come together.
– 3 ways to inspire change that sticks vs just paying for clicks.

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Top Consultants Talk About the Way Forward in Wellbeing

Where are you in your journey to better workforce wellbeing? We polled participants at our last “Learn from the Leaders” session and 89% said they are “recalculating their route.”

Only 6% said they’ve arrived at wellbeing that meets the moment.

Here’s your chance to ask the experts – practice leaders and industry veterans – how to boost program performance, better meet employee needs, and even save money for 2025 and beyond.

Join this free 1-hour webinar in our “Learn from the Leaders” Series to learn:
– What wellbeing vendors have been getting wrong, and how to get it right
– The new wellbeing metrics that matter, and how to move them
– 3 ways to strategically evolve wellbeing without adding cost
– 7 “must have” RFP tips if you want to level up wellbeing for 2025

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

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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What are we sharing this week?

  • Deloitte: From survive to thrive: The future of work in a post-pandemic world
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  • Smartbrief: How well-being can help people get through hard times
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  • Inc: The Great Resignation Is Going to be a Shock — Hitting Some Industries Harder Than Others
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  • Business Insider: Employees want to feel valued and a sense of shared purpose
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  • Harvard Business Review: Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time
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  • BBC: What happens when your office has changed for the worse?
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  • Employee Benefits News: U.S. parents are at breaking point over child care, survey shows
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  • HR Dive: 6 stories on how the pandemic has changed work for women
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Resources

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Getting to the root of emotional wellbeing at work.

Thought leaders and researchers at Kumanu, analyzing a nationally representative sample of U.S. workers gathered by The Harris Poll, developed a new model for employee wellbeing better aligned to the root causes of workforce wellbeing today.

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Employee needs have changed. Has your wellbeing strategy?

Wellbeing is changing. For good. Join us to learn how to offer more of what employees expect today: authenticity, equity, and experiences centered on social and emotional wellbeing.

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Purposeful Overview

The Purposeful Experience delivers more than a point solution and goes deeper than an app. Our team of wellbeing, communication, and program design experts support you every step of the way, creating a solution that is highly configurable, provides real-time insights on metrics that matter most, and integrates into your culture.

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Resourceful Overview

A first-of-its-kind solution to recognize, activate, and measure essential needs, Resourceful works with your existing programs to recognize and activate your people to their fullest potential.

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