Archive for March, 2009
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : Workplace Physical Activity Programs: Employee Interest Survey
To succeed in encouraging physical exercise during the workday, you must discover what workers need and want. They are the people whose behavior you are trying to effect, so it’s critical to be aware of their needs and gain their backing.
The Employee Interest Survey
Ask staff members questions that allow you to evaluate such key characteristics [...]
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : Workplace Physical Activity Programs: Committees and Opportunities
Workplace Physical Activity Programs: Forming an Employee Committee
Although support from the top is essential to a thriving initiative, support from other workers is also valuable.
Once you get the go-ahead from senior staff, identify others who are interested in the project and form a Workplace Wellness Program Committee to help determine the next steps. Depending on [...]
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : Workplace Physical Activity Programs: Gaining Upper Management Support
Gaining upper management reinforcement is essential to the success of a physical exercise program.
Whether the changes you’d like to make involve the work environment, central policies or specific programs, successfully launching your ideas is dependent upon management support.
Support from management is essential for three reasons:
• You need their agreement to involve staff members in a [...]
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : Employee Wellness Programs: What Can Employers Do to Encourage Healthier Eating and Active Living for Employees?
In today’s organization atmosphere, the health of workers is frequently related to the health of the organization. Increased job satisfaction, improved morale, reduced illness and injuries, and increased work rate are just some of the benefits of having healthy workers. Promoting health in your workplace need not be complicated, expensive or time-consuming. Any organization, big [...]
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : Workplace Health Promotion Programs: Small vs. Big Employer Options
Can a small employer support workplace wellness? You bet! In fact, in some ways it is easier to establish a healthy workplace in a small employer than in a large employer.
Limited resources, especially in small businesses, can keep a company from setting up a Employee Health Promotion Program. Reasons can include:
• lack of financial resources;
• [...]
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : What is a Employee Health Promotion Program?
Workplace wellness is in the process of evolving.
Early efforts to set up healthy workplaces focused on safety at the worksite and injury prevention for staff members.
More recently, programs are designed to assist staff members to choose healthier behaviors like being more physically active or quitting smoking. Campaigns to increase awareness, educational sessions to increase [...]
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : Designing a Company Health Promotion Program
Ideally, you will cultivate an overriding plan for a Employee Health Promotion Program before beginning to plan specific wellness programs. By way of example, you have the potential to start by getting the following components in place:
• reinforcement from management
• a Employee Wellness Program Committee or team
• information about the wellness needs and interests of [...]
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : Setting Up and Running Your Worksite Health Promotion Program
Many organizations recognize the need for a inclusive strategy to help their employees be the best they have the potential to be. They also know that efficacious and sustainable wellness programs are much more than a few “lunch and learn” programs.
Your wellness program must include a wide range of key components, including:
• A clear agenda [...]
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : Employee Wellness Programs: Does your workplace foster physical activity?
How does physical activity fit into a full-time employee’s hectic schedule? Often, it doesn’t.
One possible solution to this challenge is to make physical exercise a part of the work day. Clearly, being active at work is beneficial for workers. But employers also profit from having fit, energetic and healthy workers who are more beneficial.
The challenges
Your [...]
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : Worksite Health Promotion Programs: Physical Activity for Busy People
We all know that physical exercise is an significant part of health and wellbeing. But sometimes it’s tough to find time for physical exercise. Lack of time is the leading barrier that individuals say prevents them from participating in physical exercise on a regular basis.
The great news is that even short sessions of physical exercise [...]