In and around the wellness industry, people's heads are spinning. There's a constant flow of information suggesting different findings of the successes and failures of various wellness programs. There's very little consistency of information for casual followers, so they end up drifting with the tides of information.   

With all of this confusion, it's no wonder employers feel lost as they go to market looking for a partner to provide the foundation of their workplace wellness initiatives. With hundreds of wellness companies out there, how can they even begin to decide who they should entrust the health of their employees to? Do you ask for recommendations from other companies? Rely on the word of your broker? Google wellness programs and see who shows up?

While each of these has some level of merit, each also contains some level of risk as well. These approaches are unlikely to work to identify what you are searching for because… you likely don't know what you're searching for. For this reason, let's examine seven questions you must understand of yourself and your organization that you can use to prime your decision of what programs to offer and who to partner with to execute your wellness program.