The Wellness Inventory may be licensed by companies to act as a cornerstone of their employee wellness or employee assistance programs, to increase employee wellbeing and productivity, and to gather valuable data to assist in creating wellness and health education programs targeted to employee needs.
The Wellness Inventory - Invaluable Tool for Employee Wellness
The Wellness Inventory is a whole person assessment program based upon the pioneering work of John W. Travis, MD, MPH, a founder of the modern wellness movement and creator of the first wellness assessment. Partnering with Dr. Travis, HealthWorld has created a dynamic, online version of the Wellness Inventory - an effective tool to help employees create more balance in their lives.
Wellness Inventory is a "whole person" assessment program designed to help employees gain personal insight into their state of physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness. The program offers guidance and tools to transform this new awareness into lasting changes in their lives, and a renewed sense of health and wellbeing. And best of all, the program can be taken in the comfort of the employee's own home or the office and you will have access to their scores (with their permission).
Benefits to Your Employees:
- Assessing their current level of wellness in 12 key areas of lifestyle.
- Promotes awareness and self-responsibility towards one's lifestyle behaviors.
- Enhanced self-understanding.
- Helps determine the areas of their life they are most motivated to change.
- Guidance in creating a personalized Wellness Action Plan to meet specific goals.
- Optional coaching services to assist in developing their wellness action plan and achieving their wellness goals.
- Access to resources, classes and programs to assist in meeting these goals.
- Motivation to follow their Wellness Plan via permission-based email reminders.
For more on the program's employee features, view User Tour and Features & Benefits.
Overall Benefits for Your Company:
- Improved employee health and wellbeing.
- Improved employee performance.
- Individual employee reports can be accessed by qualified coaches or consultants for one-on-one wellness coaching.
- Current wellness resources offered by your company may be added to the 12 wellness resource centers to increase exposure of existing programs.
- Custom group reports provide direct feedback on the needs of specific departments and demographic groups.
- Assists company in designing customized EAP programs for specific employee segments.
View PowerPoint overview for Corporate Wellness Programs.
Wellness Program Management Tools
The Wellness Inventory also provides corporate wellness programs or EAPs with tools to empower you in working with your employees. You will have access to reporting, coaching
and communication tools to facilitate group profiles by department, demographic groups or company wide, one-on-one coaching, follow up, and to strengthen the client-coach relationship.
Group Demographic Reports: Licensees can run aggregate reports on all employees who have taken the assessment, giving an overall wellness profile and change-readiness profile in 12 dimensions of wellness. The reports can also be run on 8-10 demographic variables, by both single and multiple variables. Customization options allow you to run reports by department, location and other desired demographics, in addition to the standard age, gender, marital status, etc.
Individual Employee Reports: (Optional Feature) Designated staff or wellness coaches will have access to individual employee assessment results, wellness plans and a test comparison feature. Employee privacy is protected. They can share their results only with their permission. These features facilitate 1-on-1 wellness coaching if that is part of your program.
Email Broadcast Feature:
This feature allows you to broadcast supportive wellness information and resources to employees who have taken the Wellness Inventory, including weekly wellness tips, a wellness newsletter, and other information, as well as announcements from your employee wellness program. You are responsible for creating the content your send to your employees. (Premium feature)
Wellness Program Management Tools
Quick Tour
Wellness Coaching
A wellness coach who is trained in use of the Wellness Inventory can help maximize the program's effectiveness in helping your employees create desired lifestyle change and a higher level of health and wellbeing.
Certification Training
We offer a Wellness Inventory Certification Training to wellness coaches and wellness professionals via 12 week tele-classes or weekend intensives held in Asheville, North Carolina. The Certification Training provides participants with an in-depth personal experience and practical knowledge of the Wellness Inventory assessment and personal growth process. It also provides a unique coaching skill-set to maximize the program's effectiveness in creating change in your employees' lives. The goal of the course is to create competence in delivering the program to individuals and in corporate settings.
You may prefer to have a member of your staff certified or to bring in a certified wellness coach to work with your employees.
More on Certification Training Teleclasses and Intensive Trainings.
Background of the Program - Teaching People to Be Well
The Wellness Inventory is based on the pioneering work of John W. Travis, MD,
MPH, recognized as a founder of the wellness movement. Dr. Travis was a
protégé of Dr. Louis Robbins, creator of the Health Risk Appraisal, while a
resident at John's Hopkins and working with the US Public Health Service.
In the early 1970s influenced by the pioneering work of Abraham Maslow and
his concept of self-actualization, and other early leaders in the human potential
movement, he decided to dedicate his life to "teaching people to be well" rather
than treating patients.
He opened the first wellness center in the US in 1975) and created the first
wellness assessment (Wellness Inventory) as the intake for the center. The work
at his wellness center was based on a forerunner of the coaching model, in which
the client was the expert in his/her own life and had a co-creative relationship with
the center's wellness facilitators. Dr. Travis authored the classic Wellness
Workbook (Celestial Arts, 1981, 2004, 3rd Ed) which has been used by wellness
and health promotion educators in universities for 25 years.
Technical Support:
- Help Desk Feature in administrative editor to explain all basic functions.
- Flexible IT support packages.
- We can host a private-labeled version of the Wellness Inventory on our server.
- Optional hosting on your company's server.
WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING....
"The Wellness Inventory pushes beyond health risk appraisals to the wellness dimension of the illness-wellness continuum. This self-assessment tool offers new insights into what makes life worth living.....The Wellness Inventory puts the health back into health care."
Kent W. Peterson, MD, FACPM
Former director, American College of Preventive Medicine
Past president, American College of Occupational & Environmental Med.
Corporate manager, preventive & environmental medicine, IBM worldwide
"The Wellness Inventory is a refreshing approach after years of "strictly by
the numbers" HRAs that tell you how old you ought to be or why you are not
already dead. Intuitive in its approach, the Wellness Inventory results seem to have a knack
for describing the strengths and weaknesses of the participant in a way that
is both informative and educational. The Wellness Inventory provides a valuable tool for better living."
William Thar, MD, MPH
VP of Research and Analysis
Franklin Health, Inc.
"The Wellness Inventory is the fundamental component to our hospital's 7-Step Health and Wellness program. Dr. John Travis’ 12 key dimensions of wellness create a holistic foundation from which our clients not only explore the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual issues of life, but more importantly discover ways in which to become responsible for their own health."
Patricia A. Duryea, Ph.D.
"As one of the first people to computerize the Health Risk Appraisal, Dr. Travis saw its limitations early on and developed the Wellness Inventory to extend into the all important quality of life issues. For over 25 years, he has continued to keep it at the forefront of wellness."
Kenneth R. Pelletier, PhD, MD(hc)
President, American Health Association
Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
and University of Arizona School of Medicine
"The Wellness Inventory is a powerful tool for health and wellness coaches and their clients. Coaching is all about motivation, intention and follow through, and the Wellness Inventory provides clients with invaluable feedback and the ability to track progress in any of the 12 areas of life. This tool should be part of every coach's tool box."
Dr. Patrick Williams
Master Certified Coach
CEO, Institute for Life Coach Training
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For more information on licensing and pricing, contact:
James Strohecker
President
HealthWorld Online, Inc.
(310) 823-9553
jim@healthy.net
