Corporate Wellness Programs – Employee Wellness Programs
Program analysis might be the last step, but it should be planned at the starting of your efforts! Investigation assists you identify what parts of the health promotion program are working well and what parts need improvement.
Then, based on the analysis data, adjustments can be made to fine-tune your wellness program. Adjusting the [...]
Armed with data, Health Promotion Program topic preferences, goals, and goals – and a Health Promotion Committee rearing to get things done – it’s now time to decide how best to take action. This website provides tools to help you!
You can peruse about the different kinds of health promotion programs offered by other corporations [...]
The Health Promotion Committee should set out a plan for the entire year that outlines accomplishing objectives and objectives, in addition to provides details for advertising and marketing and assessing the health promotion program.
The plan is the detailed map of what kinds of wellness programs will be offered, when and where they will be [...]
A Wellness Program without objectives and objectives is somewhat akin to taking a family trip without any planning; you won’t know where you’re going, how to get there, what you want to do once you have arrived, or even whether or not you have arrived!
The trip might end up ok, or it might end [...]
Before you begin planning your Wellness Program you need to know where you’re now and then decide where you want to go. Completing a thorough needs assessment is crucial to the success of your wellness program for two reasons –
• First it ensures that your wellness program activities are going to be targeted [...]
Establishing an active Health Promotion Committee provides opportunities for both senior level management and employee involvement in the wellness program. The Committee ought to be a team of workforce and managers who formally meet to plan activities to promote healthier employee lifestyles.
Typical Functions of a Wellness Committee –
• Reviewing needs and interests
• Brainstorming [...]
As with any wellness program, the two crucial elements for the success of your wellness program are upper-level management support and staff member involvement. Executive management sets the vision and provides the resources from which action plans flow.
Genuine support from upper-level management also lends credibility to the health promotion program. It’s key that upper-level [...]
Health Promotion Program Step 1 – Be sure to set the Foundation –
Build Support Among All Levels of the Organization
A key to a successful Health Promotion Program requires management commitment and employee involvement.
Wellness Program Step 2 – Form a Wellness Committee
An active Wellness Committee ensures employee involvement, provides buy-in, senior level management support, and [...]
The wellness program design options depend on the objectives and desired outcomes of your wellness program. If your goal is to help workers change behavior, reduce risk factors, or save healthcare dollars then your wellness program would be designed to accomplish those outcomes and a budget would be necessary to support that design.
There are [...]
Major advantages of healthful workers include –
• Lower Health Care Costs
• Lowered Injuries
• Reduced Absenteeism
• Improved Morale and Loyalty
• Higher Productivity
• Lowered Use of Health Care Benefits
• Lowered Workers’ Compensation / Disability
• Positive Perception in Community
• Reduced Turnover
• Enhanced recruitment for skilled employees
What’s NOT having a Health Promotion Program costing your business?
Consider [...]
