Employer Wellness Committee
Sample Company Health and Wellness Program meeting agendas and topics for discussion
Is your corporation’s Company Health and Wellness Program Wellness Committee new? Has it existed on paper but been inactive for a while? In either case, some of the following may be appropriate agenda items for your first Company Health and Wellness Program meetings. You may also want to revisit these topics each year.
• Clarify roles of Wellness Committee members
Are members accountable for implementing changes or recommending changes?
How long are members’ terms on the Wellness Committee?
How will new members be selected?
• Determine Wellness Committee meeting frequency and processes
Establish dates, times, and locations.
Determine how agendas will be set.
Plan for recording and distributing meeting notes.
• Plan Company Health and Wellness Program communication with upper management
Does a leader sit on the group or does the coordinator report on progress (and to whom)?
How often do leaders want reports on Company Health and Wellness Program progress?
• Select a name and brand for your corporation’s Company Health and Wellness Program
• Develop a vision statement for your corporation’s Company Health and Wellness Program
• Identify existing allies Company Health and Wellness Program for promoting staff member health within your corporation
Who do Wellness Committee members know who could be relied on to support workplace changes necessary to establish a culture that promotes health?
• Brainstorm challenges your corporation may face in working to establish facilities, policies and Company Health and Wellness Program practices that promote staff member health
What do committee members regard as opportunities? How about potential Company Health and Wellness Program obstacles?
• History of past Company Health and Wellness Program efforts
If relevant, summarize past Company Health and Wellness Program efforts. Discuss what your corporation learned from those efforts.
? What has the corporation tried over the last few years?
? What has worked well?
? What hasn’t worked well?
? How, if at all, was success of previous Company Health and Wellness Program efforts measured?