Create a Healthier Workplace

What is Transformation One?

Transformation One is Northern Benefits' partner for wellness. Through Transformation One, Northern Benefits provides its clients with:

• Consulting support, guidance and tools to create a unique wellness strategy for each group
• The implementation of a variety of wellness programs and wellness tools tailored to meet the group's unique needs (i.e. newsletters, articles, multi-week communication programs, lunch-and-learn workshops, behavior change programs, coaching, etc.)

What does this mean?

• Medium to small-sized companies do not have to use costly employee-hours to figure out what to do on wellness. The support of Transformation One allows them to use an easy-to-follow recipe and tools to create and implement wellness.
• Large groups receive the benefit of a dedicated wellness consultant guiding their wellness committee
• A la carte menu of wellness programs to incorporate into plans
• Effective and engaging wellness activities. Transformation One specializes in helping groups design and implement programs that will engage a majority of people, whereas many common wellness programs:
  • Amount to nothing more than a mountain of health information organized on a website
  • Rely on people figuring things out on their own to attempt lifestyle changes
  • Don't offer effective behavior change support
• A client of Northern Benefits can launch a wellness program at no initial cost and be able to realize savings in reduced absenteeism, workers comp and improved productivity, employee morale and commitment. Studies show that $1 invested in wellness results in $5 savings from lower absenteeism.

Northern Benefits complimentary services through Transformation One include the following:

Planning tools & guidance to ensure you have a robust wellness strategy:

• Strategy planning tools: step-by-step guide to plan wellness effectively - from needs assessment, through goal setting, communication, deployment of plans and measurement of results
• Needs & interests assessment surveys
• Guides to design and implement the most effective incentives
• Guides for measurement of results
• Communication planning tools

Awareness-raising and education tools and programs:

• Self assessments for high risk conditions such as heart disease and diabetes
• "Balanced Living" health newsletter with articles on health, nutrition and empowerment
• Pay-roll stuffer leaflets with recipes, fun-living healthy tips, empowerment tools, etc.
• Online self-led resources for lifestyle change
• Lunch and learn workshops on nutrition, stress management and "getting unstuck" (successful behavior change)

Support for all wellness coordination with additional third party vendors:

• Medical biometric screenings
• Smoking cessation programs
• Massage therapists, ergonomics, etc.
• Healthy finances education

Together with Transformation One, we seek to empower companies to create an environment that supports their employees in achieving a lifestyle that builds health and life satisfaction. We believe that if businesses succeed at this goal, they will reap great returns in employee engagement, loyalty and productivity. They will also be comprised of a healthy community of individuals and their families who feel positively about their lives and have a positive impact on the communities around them.