Motivational Employee Wellness Events
These are simple and fun events that have the potential to be done within your business to encourage healthy lifestyles during a contest or during other times. The objective is to encourage employee participation. Some examples:
• Create a sub-committee of enthusiastic employees who will help promote the exercise program by offering ideas, suggestions and encouragement to fellow employees.
• Designate monthly mailbox flyers to promote a contest or support fitness-related education/encouragement information.
• Send a weekly voicemail on each participant’s phone with encouraging wellness messages.
• Give flex time so that employees have more opportunities to participate in physical activity programs as part of their working day.
• Reimburse fitness center membership fees, fitness class registrations, and fitness equipment purchases.
• Provide corporate health club memberships to lower expenditures of individual memberships.
Keeping It Fresh!
Find a champion to:
• Create lunch ’n learn sessions to support information and motivation for healthy eating and active living.
• Invite demonstrators to support cooking lessons or tips for making healthy foods.
• Display a list of local restaurants that offer healthy meal choices on their menus.
• Distribute information to educate employees on portion sizes.
• Include physical exercise and diet information in newsletters, pay check inserts, bulletin boards or e-mails.
• Plan activities that promote healthy eating and physical exercise. For example, begin a year-round lunch-time walking club, and special activities
