Archive for November, 2008
Company Health and Wellness Program During Flu Season
Maintaining Company Health and Wellness Program during Flu Season can be a challenge for any company. The average adult can get up to four colds in one year, and hundreds of thousands are hospitalized every year for flu complications. From December to March, there are more staff members out of the office due to illness, [...]
Creating a Employer Health and Wellness Program company Plan, part 2
Employer Health and Wellness Program company plan review (from Key #19)
• A Employer Health and Wellness Program company plan is a roadmap for success.
• Your Employer Health and Wellness Program company plan should convincingly demonstrate that your Employer Health and Wellness Program will help the organization to achieve its goals.
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Employee Wellness Program: Companies Save Millions Through Employee Wellness Plans
Company Health and Wellness Program Study Shows Millions Lost Due to Illness
Company Health and Wellness Program was shown to be a huge economic boon for companies in a recently-released joint report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Economic Forum (WEF). Nearly three million productive staff members in labor markets worldwide add up [...]
Gap analysis as a tool for Employer Health and Wellness Program improvement
A gap analysis is an assessment tool that enables a company to compare its current capabilities and performance with industry benchmarks and expectations for performance. A gap analysis is used to identify areas that have room for improvement.
Gap analysis can also be used for your Employer Health and Wellness Program to determine where the program [...]
Employee Wellness Programs: Rewards and Incentives
Employee Wellness Plans – Staff Engagement Strategies
Employee Wellness Plans without employee engagement are of little use to a company. How do you get staff members to enroll in Employee Wellness Plans – and stay engaged in the programs?
The materials for these programs discuss the benefits to staff members and organizations. Company Health and Wellness Program [...]
Creating a Employer Health and Wellness Program Company Plan, part 1
A company plan is a roadmap for success. Use the guidelines below to develop a realistic company plan and budget for your Employee Wellness Programs.
What is a company plan?
• A plan for success
• A document that convincingly demonstrates that your Employer Health and Wellness Program will help the business to achieve its goals.
Questions to ask [...]
Good Employee Wellness Programs: Individual Wellness
Wellness might be the fatal flaw in your Employee Wellness Program. Is Wellness part of your strategy? Does workplace wellness stop when your staff members leave the office?
Wellness Continuity
If staff members don’t have the tools to pursue health and wellness on a Individual level, then it becomes easy for them to “fall off the wagon” [...]
Employer Health and Wellness Program Timing
As they say: “timing is everything.” Use the guidelines below to guide the timing of Employer Health and Wellness Program activities and data collection.
Timing: Employer Health and Wellness Program Start-up
• Look at the optimal time to start a new Employee Wellness Program. Take into account preferences of the target population and other factors that could [...]
Employee Wellness Programs: Keeping the Resolution
Employee Wellness Programs: An Attainable Goal
Was Wellness on your company’s new year’s resolutions list? Here we are a little over midway into the third month of 2008, the time when resolutions start to falter if they haven’t lost momentum completely. Has your Worksite’s wellness resolution fallen by the wayside? If so, there are still ways [...]
Effective Employer Health and Wellness Program communication
Employer Health and Wellness Program communication is important to all facets of Wellness and preventive medicine and is relevant to:
• Healthcare provider-patient relationships
• An individual’s exposure to, search for, and use of Employer Health and Wellness Program information
• Effective counseling and patient education for behavior change
• Content of public health messages and community campaigns
Effective health [...]