Nudge is here to help make wellness easy, fun, and effective for your organization. In our continuing series of articles to help you roll out an effective wellness initiative, we've covered 5 important topics including:

If you want to successfully Nudge wellness, you’re going to need to motivate your audience to change their behaviors. Your initiative needs to be smart, appealing, inspiring and accessible to really make a difference. The only way you will be able to accomplish this is to first know your audience. 

An employee wellness program is an effective method to promote health and wellness amongst the members of your team. Programs can be designed to encourage awareness of health related issues, create a positive and fun workplace culture, increase employee engagement and productivity, and often times reduce cost of healthcare throughout the company over the long term.

Success with any wellness initiative relies on defining goals that you want to achieve. These goals need to be realistic and appeal to your company's interests. By creating a roadmap of sensible milestones, your wellness initiative will be on the road to success.

If you're seriously considering a wellness program for your company, you may have any number of a myriad of goals in mind. Satisfying these goals, whether quantitative or qualitative in nature, will inevitably be your first measure of perceived value or return-on-investment (ROI) for your initiative. Because so much can be gained from a well-designed wellness program, I will highlight 4 of the less obvious ways that a social wellness can produce significant value for you and your organization. Don't forget to download our whitepaper below for all the statistics you'll need to sell any bottom-line thinker on the benefits of workplace wellness.

A great quote has a way of pulling you out of the narrow focus of the moment, and bringing life back into perspective. Or if you slap one on a poster it's always good way to cover up some empty wall space in the office. For whatever use you may have, here are ten of my favorite health and wellness quotes highlighting rare nuggets of wisdom from the father of modern medicine, Hippocrates, to arguably the greatest actress of the modern era, Meryl Streep. These quotes are sure to enlighten your healthy lifestyle:

Any time you introduce a workplace wellness initiative, be it Nudge or anything else, the only way it can be effective is if a good portion of your company actively participates. Many companies offer wellness incentives to encourage participation and see an increase in the ROI of the program. In fact, some companies are now penalizing their employees for not participating - something that Nudge will never get behind.