I'm Amy Driscoll with the Healthy Lifestyles program so if you have any healthy lifestyles
questions I'll be around afterwards so just come over and I can help you out with that.
Just a couple little reminders.
We do have a couple health fairs coming up and a health screening coming up.
On Wednesday October 4th we will be at Water Works on Spring Grove and we will be doing
health screenings there.
You can pre-register for those beginning September 1st that usually is a very large
screening so if you're going to need an early appointment time we highly encourage you to
get on the portal on the 1st and get registered or you can call or email me and I can get
you registered for that.
We will also be having a health fair there and flu shots.
You do not have to register for those you can just show up for those.
There's also going to be a health fair across the street at the Centennial Building on Wednesday
October 11th.
We changed the time a little bit this year.
Try to get some more people involved in that so that's going to be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
We'll have lots of great vendors.
Don't need to register for that.
You can just show up.
We will also have flu shots there as well and don't forget you get a $10 incentive for
going to the health fair you would also get a $10 incentive for getting your flu shot done.
And then today as long as you checked in with me and initialed or signed in we will go ahead
and upload that $10 Healthy Lifestyles credit to your scorecard for you so you don't need
to do anything else with that.
I think that's about it for Healthy Lifestyles updates.
Just a reminder get your paperwork in.
I know the deadline is December 15th it seems like it's a long way away but it's really
not.
It'll be here quickly.
If you get your stuff in early it's a lot less stress on you guys, it's a lot less stress
on us.
Get your stuff in so we can get you updated on your scorecard.
Okay, we have Jenna Quarmley here.
She is from our office at TriHealth and she's going to be doing a presentation on well-being
versus wellness.
Welcome.
Hello everybody, happy Friday.
Who's excited it's Friday?
Raise your hand.
Come on.
Alright, good.
As Amy said, my name is Jenna Quarmley.
I am with TriHealth Corporate Health, the same department that Amy and Liz are with.
I am one of our operations supervisors of our wellness department.
I've been with TriHealth for a little bit over nine years and through those years we
have evolved into many different forms of wellness and right now well-being is kind
of the hot topic among the wellness community.
So we're going to give you kind of a presentation about what well-being is, define the elements
of well-being and how to improve your well-being.
This presentation should last no more than about 45 minutes and I promise to save some
time at the end if you all have any questions and thank you for joining us today.
So pop quiz.
Does anyone know what well-being is?
Have you heard the term before?
Raise your hand if you've heard the term well-being before.
Okay, so a few of you.
Sorry, forgot I have to change this too.
So well-being is a general term for a combination of a lot of aspects.
So it's our love for what we do each day, it's the quality of our relationships, it's
the security of our finances, it's the vibrancy of our physical health, and it's the pride
that we take in contributing to our communities that we live in and are involved with.
So today we're going to go over each of these aspects of well-being and describe kind of
a little summary of what they are and how you guys can increase your personal well-being.
This isn't something that we pulled out of the sky and developed ourselves.
There's actually research, Gallup is the researcher that kind of developed the well-being concept.
It's about 15 or 20 years old, so it's not something that's new.
Well 66% of people are doing well in at least one of these dimensions of well-being.
Only 7% of us are thriving in all five dimensions.
So the overall goal is to be thriving in all of these dimensions of well-being.
So let's go ahead and take a dive into what well-being is.
Here is a quote from Jane Seymour.
You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good
about your life.
So it kind of tees up what well-being is.
At Corporate Health we developed this kind of pictogram of what well-being is that's
a little hard to see from your areas, but at the center of well-being it's your behavioral
and emotional wellness.
So all the other aspects of well-being, purpose and career, social, financial, physical and
community, if you're not thriving in all of those aspects of well-being, your behavioral
and emotional overall well-being is not going to be fulfilled.
So we're going to dive into each one of these aspects of well-being.
So first one we're going to talk about is your purpose or career well-being.
So as you can imagine from the title of it, it's what you do each day, whether you have
a full-time job, part-time job, your stay-at-home mom or dad, do you like what you do each day?
Do you find that fulfilling and meaningful?
Those thriving in career well-being have a deep purpose of life and plan to obtain their
goals.
So it's more than just where you work, it's after you work as well.
What is your purpose when you go home at the end of the day?
Sometimes to increase or boost your career well-being is to be more engaged at work.
I think sometimes people get into the rigmarole of work and check it in, check it out, doing
your daily duties, will be a little bit more engaged within what you work.
Get involved in one of a committee maybe that you normally would not get involved in.
Identify someone at work that shares missions and supports your growth as an individual.
This might be your leader or this might be another coworker.
This is going to help increase your purpose or career well-being.
Opt into more social time with people, maybe around you and your community, or within the
teams at your work that you enjoy being with.
And then build leadership skills.
Now, not everybody wants to be a leader.
Building leadership skills is something more than just for leaders.
It's also for people who want to have a deeper sense of their career well-being to engage
more within their career.
So keep that in mind for career well-being.
A little bit more information about career well-being.
It is the most influential of all five aspects of the well-being picture.
People with career well-being are twice as likely to be thriving in their lives than people
without it, in career or purpose well-being.
We need the opportunity to do something we enjoy regularly.
So if you don't like your job, really sit down and have a conversation with yourself
on what it is you want to do and what your purpose is.
Also, it's a hard topic too.
We find when people lose their jobs, it's not something that they choose to do.
And it's hard to recover from that.
So again, if this does happen, you really need to sit down and have that one-on-one
discussion with yourself and realize what it is you want to do in your life.
And then, for example, so think of a environmental services person at a hospital.
Maybe every day they come into the hospital and they think to their self, I'm just cleaning
up people's stuff in their rooms.
That's all I'm doing every day.
Well, actually, that person isn't just cleaning up stuff.
That person is helping prevent infection and helping to keep the room clean and the patients
clean, the future patients and the patients that are there.
So you have to kind of think of it on a deeper level more than just on the surface.
So for any managers, if you're ignoring some of your direct reports, 40% of your employees,
and I shouldn't say ignoring your direct reports, but not helping them really invest in their
career well-being.
40% of those employees have a chance to be disengaged with their place of employment.
If attention is given, that drops down to 22% for disengaged employees.
And managers that help to bring attention to the strengths and develop their employees,
the chance of having a disengaged or hostile employee drops down to 1%.
So just think about that in your own life, in your own career.
And then here's a quote.
If no one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life
which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
So it kind of ties back with the career well-being aspect.
All right, we're going to move on to social well-being.
We all like some social time, right?
So this social well-being is the existence of several close relationships within your
circle.
We say or Gallup says a minimum of four to six close family, friends, spouse, coworkers
that are within your circles that help you to enjoy life, be healthy, and as well as
not only encourage you, but you encourage them to do what best for them.
So surrounded by people who encourage the development and the growth of you as a person.
Spend time investing in social networks.
This does not mean Facebook or Instagram or anything like that.
This might be something like a religious group that you're involved in or an athletic group,
a bunco group, maybe your kid's sports teams, you're involved with the parents there, a
book club.
These are all things that are going to help increase your social well-being.
And then make time to strengthen those relationships.
Like I mentioned before, it's so easy for us to get in the rigmarore of doing our work
and going home and dinner and everything, and we really need to invest time to put our
phones down and talk to people face to face, eye to eye, to know who they are, what they
are, and to help them and strengthen that social well-being.
So on the good news, Gallup reports that you need at least six to eight hours a day of social
interaction.
Again, this doesn't mean Facebook browsing or anything like that, but this is time at
home with your loved ones, meetings, texts, phone calls.
It doesn't always need to be in person, but it needs to be something that's connecting
you to.
You need to strengthen your connections within your network, whether that be within your
work or your church or any of the groups that you're involved in with your community.
And then mixing social time with physical activity.
I think so many times, especially with wellness, we're focusing on physical activity and your
numbers and this and that.
It can be fun too.
Develop wellness walks with your coworkers.
We do it at our office every day.
We have a wellness walk once a day with our team members, where we get to go outside and
walk around the building a few times and kind of enjoy the presence of each other.
30% of us that work have a best friend at work.
These people are seven times more likely to be engaged at work.
Not saying that if you don't have a best friend, that's a bad thing, but just make sure that
you have somebody that you have at work that you can relate to.
Again, this is tying in with your career well-being as well as your social well-being.
You can kind of see how they affect both ways.
Here's a quote to tie up the social well-being.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
It's not about always giving or taking, taking, taking.
It's about giving in those social interactions as well.
The third dimension, financial wellness.
We could have a whole day seminar on just financial wellness.
Everybody needs to pay attention to this one.
It's usually an issue for everyone.
It's not something that's a new concept, but it's something that is very important.
Financial well-being, it's the satisfaction with your overall standard of living, how
you manage your personal finances and spend your money.
Tying experiences that provide lasting memories rather than things that might wear out in
a few days.
It's giving to other people.
As a result of managing their money wisely, they have the financial freedom to spend
even more time with the people whose company they enjoy the most.
This is tying into your social well-being.
It's living within your means.
We all know what financial well-being is.
It might be a little bit harder to practice what we preach though.
Some of the biggest stressors that employees face is around finances and not always being
satisfied with their standard of living.
Having more doesn't always necessarily mean being happier.
We all know that.
Financial insecurity really is equivalent to a lot of stressing anxiety within your life.
Here are some recommendations on how to improve your financial well-being.
Establish default systems like auto-pay or savings to lessen the worry of financial issues.
Make sure that your purpose and career well-being and your social well-being aspects are strong
and thriving.
Just like I mentioned before, all of these end up tying back into each other.
I mentioned this a little bit before, but purchasing experiences are the fact of planning
a vacation and actually going on that vacation and having memories about that vacation is
going to be more rewarding for you than just buying something that you don't necessarily
need.
Other than just living within our needs, you want to look at living below your needs, possibly
putting more money aside, or possibly giving to others.
Giving doesn't always have to be financially.
We all know you can volunteer anywhere and give your time and effort into that aspect.
That's financial well-being.
One other thing I did want to mention, Cinco, I believe, is one of your partners at the city
of Cincinnati, that's one of Cincinnati's credit unions.
Any member can set up a meeting with a financial planner to discuss any of your options, savings
or retirement.
If you need any more information about that, please feel free to see Amy.
They can get you the contacts information because it's a great resource.
I believe last year you said there was a similar kind of lunch and learn about financial well-being
with Cinco.
Then a quote from Theodore Roosevelt, do what you can with what you have.
Do what you can with what you have where you are.
Don't go over what you can financially afford.
Physical well-being, I know that this is a major point for a lot of you at the city when
we come through and we do your on-site health screenings, but what physical well-being is
effectively managing your health, participating in your know-your-zone screenings.
It's also going to your physicians to do your regular physicals as well as your age and gender
preventive screenings to detect anything that might be going on.
Physical well-being is also involved with exercising and nutrition, so calories in versus
calories out.
Making good dietary choices, I'm sure we all struggle with that.
Getting enough sleep, which I'm going to go into detail in a minute, and then people with
a thriving physical well-being look better, feel better, and will live longer.
That's a great statement, so how do we do this?
Like I mentioned, participating in any of those know-your-zone campaigns that come on
site here, exercising, energy in and energy out, at least try to get 20 minutes of exercise
per day.
It just boosts your overall sense of happiness.
The CDC's recommendation is five days a week, at least 30 minutes a day, however, just getting
outside for a 20-minute walk is really going to help increase the rest of your satisfaction
throughout the day.
Like I mentioned at our job, we do a wellness walk, usually right before lunch, kind of right
before that midday kind of lull happens, and it really picks you up for the rest of the
day and gets you through the rest of the day.
Sleep, like I mentioned before, we're going to go into sleep a little bit more on the
next slide, and then nutrition-wise, we could spend the whole day on any nutrition aspects,
but setting up defaults when you're going grocery shopping or when you're recipe planning,
when you're going grocery shopping, telling yourself, I'm only going to shop on the perimeter.
If you notice, most of the healthy things are on the perimeter of the grocery store, and
I'm only going to go inside the actual perimeter if I need an ingredient or this or that.
Then pre-planning meals, I know that's something that's very big in order to help with your
nutrition.
It's something that I personally struggle with, and recommendation that I can give to
you is to come up with healthy recipes and print those out, and then when you're going
grocery shopping, literally just include that on your grocery list, and include only those
items that are healthy and those that are included in your recipe to kind of keep you
on track and try not to steer you to the chip aisle.
All right, so I told you we were going to talk about sleep.
Now, most people don't realize how important sleep is.
People that do not have good sleep, it's not a priority to them, it's going to decrease
their physical well-being.
Sleeping in bed may be the first time we've had to ourselves in the day, so we start thinking
about everything that happened during the day and everything that we have to do the
next day.
That might be affecting the way how much you're going to sleep, how much sleep you're going
to get.
Sleep deprivation affects your motor skills, reaction time, and it's really dangerous when
people are operating heavy machinery or weapons or anything like that.
Over time, we become limited in our ability to detect how sleepy we are if we're so overtired.
So sleep, there's a sweet spot.
The sweet spot is between seven and eight hours a night.
Anything less than that or anything more than that, it can be detrimental to our health.
I know what you're saying, 10 hours of sleep, I feel great after that.
I'm sure you all do, but seven to eight hours is really that sweet spot.
And then it's funny because sleep is something that we compete on.
We come into work and oh my gosh, I thought about the presentation all day, I only got
five hours of sleep, oh, I only got four hours of sleep, my child was up all night.
It's something that we inadvertently compete on and we shouldn't.
It's something that you should just have a goal of seven to eight hours if you have an
activity tracker.
It's interesting to see how well you sleep, so that's something that you could invest
in as well.
Here's a quote from Buddha, to keep the body in good health, it is a duty, otherwise we
shall not be able to keep our minds strong and clear.
All right, we have one last dimension of well-being, does anyone remember the one we haven't left
talked about yet?
You got it, yep, community, good job.
So community well-being, feeling safe and secure in your own home in your neighborhood,
taking pride in the community that you live in and work in, giving back to that community.
People with thriving and community well-being have identified areas where they can contribute
to their community based on their own strengths and passions.
This would include anything like volunteering, giving blood, going to the local SPCA in your
community to help with animals, thriving people give back to their community.
They participate within their community well-being, making lasting impressions and that's going
to make them feel good about their communities and their self within the well-being aspect.
You're going to end up getting back more than you give emotionally, so that's how it ties
in.
When you feel safe in your home in your neighborhood, you feel more comfortable walking and increasing
your physical well-being.
If you don't feel safe, that's probably not something that you're going to want to do.
You'll take more pride in your community as long as you volunteer there.
So three recommendations on how to improve your community well-being, identify how you
can contribute to your community based on your personal mission.
You might be thinking, well, I don't have a personal mission.
Most of us don't, so I challenge you after this presentation to think about what your
personal mission is.
If you're kind of lost right now in your life, think about what goal do you want to accomplish
at the end of this life and tie that back in within your community well-being.
Your sense of community can also be social, so it could be at your community church, any
of the community groups that you have.
It doesn't have to necessarily be where you live.
It could be where you work as well.
And then tell other people about your passions and your interests, so they can connect with
you on relevant causes.
So for an example, I am very into running.
I'm not sure that everybody in my job knew that.
Well, one day we were talking and we were discussing about what I was going to do for
my workout, and I said, okay, I'm going to go run.
And a couple of the other girls in the office said to me, I run too.
We all figured out that we ran.
So we shared that passion together, and we decided to do the Flying Pig Relay together.
And so not only are we helping our physical well-being, our community well-being, as well
as our career well-being, but we were also bonding to help that overall emotional and
behavioral well-being aspects.
So sharing those passions, it doesn't have to be a very deep conversation.
Like I said, it could be something simple that you really like to do.
Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community
of persons working together.
So how do we support these five dimensions of well-being?
So let's recap quickly.
Understand the sources and effects that stress has on your individual life.
Write them down.
It's not always fun to look at our stressors that we have.
But in order to help fix the stressors and move forward, we need to be able to recognize
what they are.
Attend to use your strengths every day.
This can apply within your career well-being community, any of that.
Write down the things that you love to do and see how you can incorporate that within
your life, daily life, whether that be at work, at home, or within your community.
Spend at least a minimum of six hours a day socializing.
That's a good one, right?
We all want to socialize and share our common interests with our other people around us.
Live within or below your means financially.
It's going to help your overall well-being.
Eat more, or sorry, no, well, we'd all love to eat more.
You need to eat less, move more, learn to cope, and to get good sleep.
So that's obvious information for the physical well-being, but it's all about calories in
and calories out and realizing what issues you might have with your own numbers and talking
with your primary care physician, or if you find something at your health screening talking
with our feedback, people on how you can improve that aspect.
And then give back.
So give back to your community.
Give back to your work.
You're going to feel an overall sense of more behavioral and emotional satisfaction.
Here's a quote to wrap it up from Abraham Lincoln, most folks are as happy as they make
up their minds to be.
So again, it's all about mentality and realizing what you have going for you in your life and
what things that you want to work on and trying to affect those aspects that you want to work
on.
All right, to wrap it up, do we have any questions about well-being as a whole?
That's a great question.
The Gallup Research Show, sorry, I forgot I'm on camera, so I'll stand over here.
The Gallup Research Show, the sweet spot is the seven to eight hours.
More than that, I don't know if you've ever noticed when you like sleep more, you might
be tired when you wake up, even though you've slept like 10 hours during that day.
So getting more sleep, they just don't recommend that for you because you want to have kind
of a set habit every single day of seven to eight hours.
If it's varying every day, you're kind of going to ebb and flow through the days and
through the week, and that's not something that's recommended.
That's a good question.
Any other questions?
That's a great question.
So it can be anything.
It can be talking on, yep, that's a great question.
It can be talking on the phone.
I mean, I know myself, I probably shouldn't do this, but I talk to my mom on the way home
every day, 45 minutes, talk to my sisters through texting.
I mean, it's obviously an accumulation throughout the day, and it might be here at work.
You might not even realize that you're socializing with people for over an hour at work every
day.
So that's a good question.
Any other questions?
No?
Well, you all have been a great audience.
Feel free to pop up at the end of the presentation if you have any questions for me.
Fill out your survey if you could.
We always like feedback on our presentations, what we can do to make them better, and how
we did.
And please return those to Amy on your way out at that table.
You can drop them at the table, and you guys have a great weekend.
Thank you.
