Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans
o Be certain that your building’s stairwells are clean, attractive and safe, and post signs stimulating staff to use the stairs.
o Launch a wellness newsletter or intranet.
o Promote the Activity Tracker and encourage employees to track their exercise every week.
o be creative, and make the most of the workspace you have. for instance, mark off [...]
o Organize a launch event to develop excitement about upcoming activities and to develop a social climate that establishes being active as the norm.
o Organize and promote monthly or bi-monthly company events that are fun and active, e.g., picnics with physical games, staff tournaments and dragon boat racing.
Be sure to encourage families to join in [...]
There is no single right way to approach wellness programs but winning wellness programs share common success factors. These include commitment from management, staff member involvement, adequate resources, and a policy concerning health that goes hand in hand with the corporation’s mission, vision and values.
Health Promotion Program – A Range of Approaches
Although the goal is [...]
Just how does it feel to walk into your worksite? Do people look happy? is the place well lit and cheerful? Do you feel welcome, wanted and energized? Or do you feel a gloom come over you, and count the hours until you can leave?
The influence of the worksite environment on the wellness of workers [...]
These are fun and easy events that may be done within your company to motivate healthy behaviors during a contest or during other times. The goal is to encourage employee participation. Some examples -
o Develop a sub-committee of enthusiastic workers who will help promote the fitness program by offering ideas, suggestions and encouragement to fellow [...]
These are short informational “Health Tips” in an e-mail format on many different health-related topics. You can appoint someone within your organization to find specific topics on the Internet from sites that are in the public domain or topics may be purchased from businesses.
Some certified sources include -
o Hope Health
o Sound Ideas, Inc.
o Centers for [...]
Wellness Workshops are learning sessions planned and organized by you to meet specific goals. Decide on a topic and select a speaker. Pick a site for the “Lunch and Learn” session, normally a lunchroom or break room.
Depending on your budget and goals, employees can brown bag the lunch or you might provide the meal. Meetings [...]
Conducting an Employee Fitness Challenge at your worksite is a fun and arousing way to raise awareness among staff members about the importance of starting and sustaining an exercise program.
It’s a concentrated effort in which to engage them in exercise for a specific period that, hopefully, will help them start a healthy habit that’ll last [...]
Studies have repeatedly demonstrated that extensive health promotion programs, or Health Promotion Programs, can lower healthcare and insurance costs, decrease absenteeism, and improve performance and productivity.
Other benefits demonstrated in studies include improved ability to attract and retain key personnel, greater worker allegiance, and improved public image of the business.
Healthcare and Insurance Costs
A number of studies [...]
Free Wellness Programs and Inexpensive Health Management Alternatives
Start a free health promotion program or run a successful health promotion program in the office for little or no cost to your corporation. The advantages of corporate health promotion at work are many.
The articles on health promotion program have generated a selection of questions, mainly from wellness [...]