Archive for March, 2009
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : Workplace Health Promotion Programs: How Employer Policies Can Help Staff Members to Remain Active
• Commit to workplace physical exercise in policy statements and commit funding to physical exercise initiatives.
• Clearly communicating the benefits of being physically active during the workday reinforces the company’s responsibility to helping all workers be active. Use gatherings, bulletin boards, newsletters and e-mail to reach as many workers as possible at least once a [...]
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : Worksite Health Promotion Programs: How Your Organization Can Help workers to Be Active
• Make sure that your building’s stairwells are clean, attractive and safe, and post signs encouraging staff members to use the stairs.
• Organize a wellness newsletter or intranet.
• Encourage the Activity Tracker and bolster employees to track their physical activity every week.
• Be creative, and make the most of the workspace you have. For example, [...]
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : Workplace Health Promotion Programs: Physical Activity With Co-staff members
• Create a launch event to create excitement about upcoming activities and to establish a social climate that establishes being active as the norm.
• Establish and reward monthly or bi-monthly organization programs that are fun and active, e.g., picnics with physical games, employee tournaments and dragon boat racing. Urge families to join in by including [...]
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : Building a Corporate Wellness Program
There is no single right way to approach wellness programs but winning programs share common success factors. These include commitment from management, employee participation, adequate resources, and a health policy that goes hand in hand with the organization’s mission, vision and values.
Corporate Wellness Program: A Range of Approaches
Although the intention is to eventually have a [...]
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : Company Health Promotion Programs: Creating Supportive Environments
How does it feel to walk into your worksite? Do people look happy? Is the place illuminated and cheerful? Do you feel welcome, wanted and energized? Or do you feel a dark cloud come over you, and count the hours until you are able to leave?
The influence of the workplace environment on the wellness [...]
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : Motivational Worksite Wellness Program Events
These are simple and fun events that have the potential to be done within your company to motivate healthy lifestyles during a contest or during other times. The intention is to encourage employee participation. Some examples:
• Create a sub-committee of enthusiastic workers who will help reward the physical activity program by offering ideas, suggestions and [...]
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : Healthy Emails / Wellness Emails
These are brief informational “Health Tips” in an e-mail format on many different health-related issues. You are able to appoint someone within your corporation to find specific issues on the Internet from sites that are in the public domain or issues can be purchased from companies. Some qualified sources include:
• Hope Health
• Sound Ideas, Inc.
• [...]
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : Wellness Seminars / Lunch and Learn Programs
Wellness Seminars / Lunch and Learn Programs are informational sessions planned and organized by you to meet specific objectives. Decide on a topic and select a speaker. Choose a site for the “Lunch and Learn” session, usually a lunchroom or break room. Depending on your budget and objectives, workers can brown bag the lunch or [...]
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : Job Site Wellness Ideas
Conducting an Employee Fitness Challenge at your workplace is a fun and exciting way to raise awareness among staff members about the effect of beginning and sustaining an exercise program. It is a concentrated effort in which to engage them in physical exercise for a specific time period that, hopefully, will help them start a [...]
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : Are Workplace Health Promotion Programs Cost-Effective?
Research studies have repeatedly demonstrated that comprehensive Worksite Health Promotion Programs, or Worksite Health Promotion Programs, are able to lower health care and insurance costs, decrease absenteeism, and improve effectiveness and productiveness. Other benefits demonstrated in research studies include improved ability to attract and retain key personnel, greater employee allegiance, and improved public conception of [...]