Archive for September, 2008
Benefits of Corporate Wellness Programs
The workplace setting is a powerful, but often overlooked, element in managing worker health. Here we will identify some of the best-practices in starting a Corporate Wellness Program that supports your organization’s employee health strategy and allows workers to take charge of their own health. For example, a Corporate Wellness Program that includes a tobacco-free [...]
How to Write Corporate Wellness Program Goals and Objectives
Why have Corporate Wellness Program goals?
Corporate Wellness Program goals take your business’s priorities for employee health improvement and make them specific and measurable. Well-defined Corporate Wellness Program goals provide direction for selecting Strategies and a basis for which to measure progress.
Writing Corporate Wellness Program goals
Writing Corporate Wellness Program goals is not complicated [...]
Gathering information on worker health behaviors
If your business is interested in measuring the impact of your Corporate Wellness Program efforts in future years, you’ll want to gather relevant baseline data on the health and health behaviors of your worker population.
Corporate Wellness Program Data on your worker population
Health Risk Assessments
Some health plans offer employers free web-based health risk [...]
Assessment of workplace culture and environment
In addition to looking at the health behaviors of workers, take a good look at your business. The following questions can help you identify opportunities for your business to support and encourage healthy behaviors among workers.
A strong foundation for employee health improvement
1. To what extent does the senior management in your business actively [...]
Establishing a Corporate Wellness Program vision and brand for your business’s Corporate Wellness Program
Premier Elements: Building health builds wealth
Select a Corporate Wellness Program logo to go with the name.
The Corporate Wellness Program logo is an important piece of the branding
Review any ideas submitted for Corporate Wellness Program logos.
If you’re fortunate to have a [...]
Employer Health and Wellness Committee
Sample Corporate Wellness Program meeting agendas and topics for discussion
Is your business’s Corporate Wellness Program Health and Wellness Committee new? Has it existed on paper but been inactive for a while? In either case, some of the following may be appropriate agenda items for your first Corporate Wellness Program meetings. You may also want [...]
Establishing a Health and Wellness Committee
A representative Health and Wellness Committee is a cornerstone of a successful Corporate Wellness Program, regardless of the size of the business.
Membership of your Health and Wellness Committee
Aim for a committee of a manageable size (no more than 15 members, depending on your business’s size). Your Health and Wellness Committee should represent all [...]
Determining a budget for establishing a Corporate Wellness Program
Establishing a Corporate Wellness Program need not be expensive, but will require the commitment of some financial resources. If possible, include the Corporate Wellness Program in your business’s annual business plan and budget as you do for other efforts important to your business’s success.
How much to budget for the Corporate Wellness Program?
There is [...]
Finding a Corporate Wellness Program Coordinator
Finding an individual to lead your business in establishing a Corporate Wellness Program
Without a qualified Corporate Wellness Program coordinator to lead and manage your business’s creation of a culture of health, efforts can be scattered and momentum can stall. While it’s vital that the creation of a culture of health be someone’s priority, [...]
Corporate Wellness Program: Securing Leadership Support
Strong and visible leadership support for the Corporate Wellness Program promotes health and is vital to securing necessary Corporate Wellness Program resources (staff, time, and money) and implementing recommended changes.
1. Identify a Corporate Wellness Program champion
In a small business, there may be a single leader who is the clear choice to champion the Corporate [...]
