Empowering Your Employees with Wellbeing

Are you getting the most out of your organizational wellbeing program? We get it. Something that was once thought of as a fringe benefit has become one of the most requested employee benefits. But, just having a wellness program for the sake of having one is not the answer. Even 77% of the prestigious C. Everett Koop healthiest employer recipients cannot measure the impact of their program. In this episode, we are joined by Workforce Health Consultant, Sara Tarca, who helps uncover how employers can get the most out of their health and wellbeing resources and truly make wellbeing part of their overall engagement and business strategy.
When speaking with employers across Connecticut, the country and globally, we often find that employee wellbeing is something they plan to focus on in the near future but are admittedly slow to implement because they don’t feel equipped to address it properly and successfully. Often unsure what their role should be or how to define wellbeing, employers avoid confronting these issues head on.

Meanwhile, 75% of employees say they want their employers to champion their wellbeing in the workplace. Sara Tarca, Workforce Health Consultant, joins us on this episode to talk about how employers can get the most out of their health and wellbeing resources and truly make wellbeing part of their overall engagement and business strategy. Topics discussed include the transition from wellness to wellbeing, making the business case for a wellbeing strategy, the impact on productivity and performance and more.

About Sara Tarca

As Workforce Health Consultant, Sara utilizes over 20 years of experience in the Wellness and Health Promotion industry to support employers as they look to navigate and make strides in workforce health improvement. Throughout her career, Sara has provided insight, strategy, program development and trend analysis to client populations as related to health improvement, cost containment, benefit structure and RVOI. Her experience working “both sides of the table”, first as a practitioner (personal trainer, health coach, clinician), then as a representative for the insurance carrier, advisor and benefits administrator, has allowed Sara to develop a unique understanding of the needs and challenges that employers face in the wellness arena.

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Empowering Your Employees with Wellbeing