Archive for December, 2008
Company Health and Wellness Program Follow Up
Why Company Health and Wellness Program follow up?
Getting feedback from Company Health and Wellness Program participants serves two purposes: to obtain data that quantifies a Wellness Program’s impact, and to find ways to improve a Employee Wellness Program.
Building follow up into your Company Health and Wellness Program
Make it Simple
• Keep follow up to information you [...]
Employer Health and Wellness Program Ideas: Mental Wellness
• childcare Programs and information
• family planning information
• parenting classes
• Senior care Programs and information
• retirement planning
• individual responsibility leave
• alternative work arrangements such as telecommuting, job sharing
• work-family-life transition support
• anger management and family violence
• family counselling programs
• budgeting and financial counselling
• understanding credit reports
• money safety tips – ATMS, credit cards
• advertising and [...]
Innovative Company Health and Wellness Program marketing
Why bother to market your Employee Wellness Programs?
Because of the transient nature of the many staff member populations, you must market your Employee Wellness Plans all the time. Your goal should be to keep your Employee Wellness Plans as visible as possible.
Innovative marketing can increase awareness of your Company Health and Wellness Program for:
• Potential [...]
Employer Health and Wellness Program Ideas: Environmental Wellness Programs
• violence in the worksite
• equity in the worksite programs
• harassment policy and training
• literacy/numeracy Programs
• professional development and skill enhancing training
• air quality and sick building testing
• smoke-free worksite
• fire safety programs
• hazard control and WHIMS Training
• injury prevention, CPR/First Aid, emergency response Programs
• improved signage
• installing guard rails
• work station design, ergonomic and [...]
Company Health and Wellness Program Data
What is Company Health and Wellness Program data?
Company Health and Wellness Program data is information that is collected about your Employee Wellness Program. All Employee Wellness Plans should include data as an integral part of the Company Health and Wellness Program plan.
Why should you care about Company Health and Wellness Program data?
Information tells the Wellness [...]
Employer Health and Wellness Program Ideas: Healthy Living Programs
• Add Stress management and mental health Programs
• Add substance use and abuse Programs
• Add smoking cessation and control
• Add nutrition counselling
• Add weight control Programs and counselling
• Add promote use of food logs
• Add posting BMI charts
• Add juice dispensing machines
• Add water coolers
• Add snack machines with low-calorie snack choices
• Add snack machines [...]
Keys to Effective Employee Wellness Plans
Collaboration and Effective Employee Wellness Plans
Why should you collaborate?
Active, ongoing partnerships and cooperative efforts multiply Company Health and Wellness Program resources in order to better serve Employees and their families.
How can you build collaboration into a Employee Wellness Program?
Get Ready…
• Brainstorm a list of every potential Wellness partner you can think of. Be creative!
• Be [...]
Employer Health and Wellness Program Environment Assessment
Why Complete a Employer Health and Wellness Program Environment Assessment?
The purpose of completing the assessment is to identify your worksite’s strengths and areas in need of improvement. The assessment will lead your workgroup to recommend actions for changes to make the worksite more supportive of healthy behaviors (i.e. healthy food choices in snack machines, policies [...]
Employee Wellness Plans – The Good and The Bad
Employee Wellness Plans at the company level are beneficial, right? Wellness statistics clearly show that such Employee Wellness Plans are not only cost-effective to the organization but can assist the staff member in developing a healthier lifestyle. With the rising cost of medical care, Employee Wellness Plans simply make sense. So where does the problem [...]
Employee Wellness Program: Maintaining Motivation and Interest
Once you start a Employer Health and Wellness Program you will have a range of employee participants. Some will already be very engaged in being active and eating well and your program will only reinforce and enhance their health. On the other end of the spectrum will be individuals who may not engage no matter [...]