Archive for May, 2009
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : Workplace Wellness Program Activities: Design and Implementation
When creating a inclusive Workplace Wellness Program, make sure that it consists of a variety of awareness, lifestyle change, supportive environment programs, policies and activities that target risk behaviors, and the needs and interests of the staff members. It will be important to review and revise existing policies governing such areas as smoking sections and [...]
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : Employee Wellness Program: Creating Goals and Objectives
Establish objectives
Goals are general guidelines that explain what you want to achieve. Objectives define strategies or steps to take to attain the identified intention.
A wellness program should have a “destination”. Use the outcome of your surveys and your wellness committee’s mission statement as guides. Consider these ideas:
• Focus on making health information and learning [...]
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : Employee Health Promotion Program Needs and Interest Survey
Successful wellness programs are designed to meet the needs and interests of the employees. Ask employees what they are interested in, and what needs they have. People are more willing to take part and support wellness efforts if they are involved in the decision-making process.
When beginning a survey, keep the following hints in mind:
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Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : Establish a Worksite Health Promotion Program Committee
A critical first step in organizing your company’s wellness program is the formation of a Company Wellness Program Committee. The focus of the Company Wellness Program Committee is to plan, reward, and start the program. The Company Wellness Program Committee establishes continuity, motivation, and broad ownership of the program as well as supports an excellent [...]
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : Worksite Wellness Program: Obtaining Upper Management Support
Support from senior staff is critical to building a efficacious wellness program! Visible senior staff support is one of the most vital factors in the success of a worksite Corporate Wellness Program. Management executives are responsible for making sure that the business meets its objectives. They can offer additional assistance by supporting you to link [...]
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : Workplace Wellness Program: Conducting Employer Assessment
The first step in starting your wellness/Employee Health Promotion Program is to know your business and how Employee Health Promotion Program will fit into the current structure. By researching your organization’s history with similar programs and eliciting feedback from co-staff members, you can learn the best solution for your business.
Employee Wellness Program: Research Questions
• Find [...]
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : Benefits of Worksite Wellness Programs*
The expenditures of healthcare have been rising more than ten percent each year for several years. A substantial amount of the money spent in the healthcare system treats costly illnesses and diseases.
• Approximately 95 percent of the $1.4 trillion that we spend as a nation on health goes to direct medical services, while about 5 [...]
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : What is a Company Wellness Program?
According to the American Journal of Health Promotion, “Health promotion is the science and art of helping people modify their lifestyle to move toward a state of good health. Optimal health is defined as a balance of physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual health. Lifestyle modification can be facilitated through a combination of efforts to [...]
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : Boost Business Wellness through Emotional Wellness Techniques
5 Ways to Evaluate and Improve Your workers’ Health
Emotional health is a state of wellness that comes from understanding and acknowledging our emotions and finding appropriate ways to express them. As workers, we frequently bring emotional concerns from our childhood or current family life into the worksite because we haven’t dealt with them effectively outside [...]
Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans : Workplace Health Promotion Programs Now as Important as Cost and Workforce Issues
25 percent Jump in Employer Interest in Employee Health and Wellness
Job Site wellness for their workers, organizations are discovering, is wonderful for the health of their organizations as well. Company Wellness Programs help to cut the expenditures associated with poor employee health, which include absenteeism, loss of productivity and poor work quality.
A recent Hewitt Associates [...]