Life and Well-being Webpage Offers a Fresh Look at Your Benefits

Benefits can make a huge difference in your daily life. Whether it's about health, finances, legal matters, or just navigating everyday challenges, find support that can truly enhance your well-being. Life and Well-being is where you find services offered through:

• LifeMatters, the Employee Assistance Program vendor
• WebMD One, the Well-being Program vendor
• The Minnesota Advantage Health Plan
• The Well-being Program team, Justin Roberson and Dawn Cvengros, and Hailey Peckat, team member through WebMD

You’ll find 12 tiles featuring everything from Wednesday Well-being Webinars to personal health coaching, to living with diabetes, counseling, discounts, workplace well-being, legal advice, money management, and more.

Leadership and Team Dynamics Features Internal Consultants

Leadership and Team Dynamics is a team of internal consultants who are called upon every day to help teams and individuals navigate conflict, lead through critical and traumatic workplace incidents, and support the overall satisfaction with state employees’ work environments.

Each year on average, these relationship and behavior experts work on 500 cases across 47 agencies, schools, and other organizations connected to SEGIP. Last year alone they had contact with more than 4,000 individuals. They work with supervisors, managers, employees, Human Resources, Labor Relations, and Union leadership to help:

• Navigate conflict or team dynamics
• Address issues around mental health at work
• Close a gap between actual and expected performance or address persistent concerns
• Lead through a sudden, overwhelming, threatening, or prolonged event

The team’s services include:

• Consultation: Expertise and support to help you address a specific challenge or situation
• Coaching: Usually, one-on-one help to build specific skills or meet a goal
• Facilitation: Help teams work better together. Build consensus, reduce conflict, or find new answers
• Education: Presentations for employees customized to address specific needs of a work area or environment

The service is through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). Like all EAP benefits, the consultant's services are private, practical, easily accessible, and free. In the past, this team was called Organizational Health and Resolve.

Focusing on Minnesota Employee Well-being

Landyn Prescott-Miles leads the newly reformulated Minnesota Employee Well-being programs through the State Employee Group Insurance Program. Other team members include Ellen Fitzharris, Karen Hanauer, Steven Reuter, Linda Wolf, Dawn Cvengros, Justin Roberson and Hailey Peckat. The program’s three major components are:

• Lifestyle Benefits help employees and the people they live with juggle life’s chores and challenges. Help includes counseling, legal advice, and budgeting and money management. LifeMatters also offers services to help you cross items off your personal to-do list. Give them a call for help finding tutors, coaches, plumbers, pet sitters, child and elder care, and much more. 
• Well-being Benefits and Initiatives, including webinars and presentations, challenges, and services through vendors such as WebMD ONE, Omada, and the annual worksite flu shot clinics. 
• Office of Leadership and Team Dynamics helps leaders navigate conflict, lead through critical and traumatic workplace incidents, and support the overall satisfaction with state employee’s workplaces.