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 and Expectations
The next vital step is to base the Employee Wellness on the needs and interests of your business and its employees.
Employee Wellness Step 4: Set Goals and Objectives
Goals and objectives are the road maps to guide you where your program needs to go. These constitute the foundation for planning and evaluating activities to see to it that your wellness program will meet your special needs.
Employee Wellness Step 5: Create a Detailed Action Plan
There is no such thing as too much planning! The best of intentions can get lost, overstepped, or forgotten in the absence ofadequate planning, and then it would be all for naught.
Employee Wellness Step 6: Select and Start a Plan
Once you have the needs assessment results, a Employee Wellness Committee, objectives and goals it’s now time to put your plan into action!
Employee Wellness Step 7: Oversee and Evaluate Your Employee Wellness
Assessment is a critical step to keep a program focused, as well as to ensure that the program is reaching its objectives and goals or achieving the desired results.
Summary
These Seven Steps outline considerations for a accross the board approach to designing and launching an effective wellness program. Are you able to implement components of wellness activities without referring to these steps? Yes, of course, but you may lack the sustainability or ability to obtain desired outcomes. Following the Seven Steps does not have to be confusing or burdensome. A very simple approach can achieve a efficacious wellness program!
Therefore, to ensure a efficacious wellness program refer to the key components as you plan your program or improve your current program:
• Upper Management Support & Employee Participation
• Active Employee Wellness Committee
• Employee Wellness is Based on Employee Needs & Interests
• Employee Wellness Goals and Objectives are Established
• Detailed Employee Wellness Action Plan Based on Resources & Budget
• Employee Wellness Implementation & Internal Marketing
• Assessment of Employee Wellness Outcomes
