173: The 4 Steps to Organizational Influence for Wellness Professionals with Jen Arnold

Connecting and developing relationships with leaders is a common pain-point among wellness professionals. In today's episode, podcast host Jen Arnold shares a webinar she presented on her 4 steps to organizational influence - a plan that takes the mystery out of building these successful relationships with business leaders who are in a position to invite you to the table.

Jen has over 20 years of experience leading and advising on organizational health and wellness efforts. She has interviewed more than 170 experts in the field of organizational health and has spoken many stages, including Tedx, WELCOA, and WCWI.

In today's episode, Jen discusses some of the reasons she's learned that wellness professionals are so interested in organizational influence, as well as her secret sauce to becoming a successful wellness professional.

She takes us through the 4 steps to organizational influence: buying into the business, choosing relationships over requests, integrating instead of separating, and raising your hand.

Jen breaks down the goals of each step, explaining important strategies such as being a dot connector, presenting initiatives that reflect what's important to the company, and finding collaborative opportunities with other departments that tie into wellness.

Finally, she shares a more in-depth look at the Redesigning Wellness Academy, a training designed to not only delve deeper into these steps, but also walk with you as you begin to try them out for yourself. As Jen says, "you're probably not going to have a seat at the table, so find a way there."

This episode is sponsored by KyndHub.

KyndHub is a social media platform designed to build your mental wellness. Currently sitting at over 50,000 users, the aim of KyndHub is to create a positive community between users and to gamify the idea of "kyndfulness."

Recently, it has been gaining a lot of traction in the field of employee wellness- companies have been seeing incredible impact in the areas of employee engagement, company culture, and employee wellbeing after implementing KyndHub into the workplace.

KyndHub also has an extension in which you guys can order "KyndKits", which are volunteer projects in a box. KyndKits have also been proven to improve your mental wellness, and they make an incredible impact on the community at the same time. 100% of the proceeds from KyndKits go to fund mental health non-profit Project Helping.

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