The ACBG Edge Process

The Strategic Game Plan

It is human nature to resist change, even when the change is a benefit to every employee. The first step in the ACBG Edge Process will prepare your organization for change. This begins with the top level of management. You need to gain full support from your top management before moving forward. ACBG will conduct a cultural audit and identify potential roadblocks to launching an effective health and wellness initiative. We will then assist you in removing these hazards in order to facilitate a smooth transition towards a culture of health and fitness.  

Next, your CEO and top management will participate in a strategy meeting during which you develop your company’s three-year plan and identify your first steps toward a successful program. You will receive best-in-class recommendations on company policies, motivating employees, and effective incentive programs. Through this process, you will identify a wellness leader who will become empowered to lead and coordinate your program. You have now begun establishing a culture of health and fitness in your company.

The Momentum Builder

Effective advertising and promotion is vital to the successful launch of your employee health and productivity risk management initiative. Your program will gain greater support and will be more successful once your employees understand that your health and wellness programs are a benefit to them. Your campaign will show your employees that health and wellness is a win/win proposition. Multiple modes of education and promotion including email, internet, newsletters, lunch-n-learns, and flyers are used to educate and motivate your employees. This will create awareness in your organization of both the upcoming programs and the existing health issues currently present in your population. Health and wellness will become a topic of conversation in your company as your employees become more aware of their own existing health risks. Through this process, health and wellness self leaders will be identified, developed and enriched, establishing the foundation for your culture of health and fitness.

The Implementation Solution

The construction industry is one of the most challenging populations in which to implement employee health and productivity programs. ACBG has solved these logistical challenges with proven processes for your diverse and nomadic contractor population. This process has been developed through years of trial and error, and by gaining the best ideas from each of our contractors, which demonstrates the power of the synergy of our group. Your custom-designed process will enable you to have the most effective impact on your population with the least amount of effort. The data collected during this process is vital to establishing a benchmark of your employees’ health and productivity and to measuring the successful impact of your program over time.  

Empowering Supervisors

The goal of a champion company is “Zero Trend,” meaning that as the overall health and fitness of your employees increases, their medical claims decrease so that the year-to-year growth in your health claims cost is zero. ACBG’s Wellness Boot Camp is designed to convert your supervisors into health and wellness leaders. In the Boot Camp your supervisors and top management learn the steps necessary to become a champion company. They will become educated on the importance of your health and productivity programs and on the economics of creating a culture of health and fitness.  They will be your first employees to complete the health risk assessment and biometric testing and the first to participate in the health coaching program. Your supervisors will leave the Boot Camp armed with the tools needed to be successful. The education and resources that your supervisors receive will empower them to be leaders in your workforce and to make changes in your culture.  

Empowering Employees

Becoming a champion company requires the involvement of all of your employees. Wellness meetings are designed to educate your employees on the benefits of your health and productivity risk management program and on the economic impact that a successful program will have on your company’s bottom line. During these meetings, your employees will learn how and when to complete their HRA and biometric testing, and how to engage a health coach once certain health risks are identified. This educational process creates the foundation of your health and wellness program and empowers your employees to make the right choices with regard to their health and fitness, and, begins the process of creating self leaders.  

The Program Launch

The successful kickoff of your health and productivity risk management program will maximize your return on investment. ACBG’s proven process will ensure success by engaging all of your employees. The goal of this process is to help them discover their health risk factors and to help them learn what they can do to improve. A skillfully implemented program kickoff will build positive momentum toward building a culture of health and fitness, becoming a champion company and achieving "Zero Trend."

The Growth Maximizer

The key to maintaining positive momentum in your program is ongoing communication and education. Creating a culture of health and fitness requires the same type of consistent training and feedback that is necessary to create a culture of safety in your company. The ongoing education process includes company-wide health campaigns that engage your population and promote healthy lifestyles. By using a variety of communication materials including toolbox talks, emails, flyers, posters, and contests, you will reinforce the importance of health and fitness in both the employee’s life and in the ongoing success of your company. Through this process, health and wellness self leaders will be identified, developed and enriched to maximize your return on investment.  

The Cultural Transformer

The final step in creating a culture of health and fitness in your company is to align all facets of your business with a healthy culture. Areas addressed in this step include guidelines on food at company events and meetings, guidelines for vending machines, vending trucks and subcontractor/supplier provided food, as well as guidelines for employee rewards. Your company will gain notoriety for having a healthy culture and you will develop, attract and retain healthy and fit employees.