Archive for February, 2009
Employee Wellness : Building Support for your Program
As with any program, the two most important elements for the performance of your wellness program are management reinforcement & employee participation. Upper Management establishes the vision and supports the resources from which action plans flow. Genuine reinforcement from senior personnel also lends credibility to the wellness initiative. It is Making sure to include an [...]
Employee Wellness Step 1: Set The Foundation: Build Support Among All Levels of the business
A key to a successful Employee Wellness requires management commitment and employee participation.
Employee Wellness Step 2: Create a Employee Wellness Committee
An active Employee Wellness Committee ensures employee participation, provides buy-in, management reinforcement, and maintains a team that is ready to take action to integrate wellness programs.
Employee Wellness Step 3: Gather Data to Ascertain Key Needs [...]
Employee Wellness Design Options
The program design options depend on the objectives and goals and desired outcomes of your program. If your objective is to help employees modify behavior, lower risk factors, or save health care money then your wellness program would be designed to accomplish those outcomes and a budget would be helpful to support that design.
There are [...]
Making the Case for Employee Wellness
Major advantages of healthy employees include:
• Reduced Health Care costs
• Diminished Injuries
• Diminished Absenteeism
• Increased Morale and Loyalty
• Increased Productivity
• Diminished Use of Health Care Benefits
• Diminished Workers’ Comp/Disability
• Positive Perception in Community
• Diminished Turnover
• Improved recruitment for able employee
What is NOT Having a Employee Wellness Costing Your Company?
Consider the health risk factors that are [...]
What is a Employee Wellness ?
A Employee Wellness is an inclusive program to help and support employees in implementing healthier lifestyles. This may include increasing employee awareness on health topics, scheduling behavior change programs, and/or implementing business policies that support health-related objectives. Programs and policies that promote increased physical exercise, tobacco use prevention and cessation, and healthy meal selections are [...]
