Wellness Programs, Wellness Program Ideas and More
These are fun and easy events that could be done within your company to motivate healthful behaviors during a contest or during other times. The goal is to encourage employee participation. Some examples –
• Develop a sub-committee of enthusiastic workers who’ll help promote the fitness program by offering ideas, suggestions and encouragement to fellow [...]
Develop a culture of wellness within your business
Develop Exemplary Management Support
In the most successful Wellness Programs, senior managers lead their organizations by example. And they work to ensure that the senior management structure not only allows, but actively encourages their workforce to participate.
Organize a Health Promotion Advisory Team
Wellness committees serve as the eyes, ears, arms [...]
These are short informational “Health Tips” in an e-mail format on many different health-related topics. You can appoint someone within your business to find specific topics on the Internet from sites that are in the public domain or topics could be purchased from organizations.
Some qualified sources include –
• Hope Health
• Sound Ideas, Inc.
• [...]
Research studies show that untargeted health-promotion campaigns have little long-term impact.
Chronic conditions, which rob individuals and families of their health and happiness, represent major costs to employers in the form of health care and disability costs, lost productivity, and absenteeism.
Health Promotion Programs should address risky behaviors that can help your workforce eat healthier, increase their [...]
Health Promotion Seminars are learning sessions planned and organized by you to meet specific objectives. Decide on a topic and select a speaker. Select a site for the “Lunch and Learn” session, typically a lunchroom or break room.
Depending on your budget and goals, workers can brown bag the lunch or you might provide the [...]
The Facts Speak for Themselves – Wellness Helps Reduce Costs
• A 2003 evaluation of one large U.S. company found that simply assisting staff control their blood pressure alone can save $547 per person annually.
• Johnson and Johnson claims to have saved $38 million in healthcare costs for its staff members between 1995 and 1999 by [...]
Conducting an Employee Fitness Challenge at your worksite is a fun and exciting way to elevate awareness among staff about the importance of starting and sustaining an exercise program.
It’s a concentrated effort in which to engage them in exercise for a specific time that, hopefully, will help them start a healthful habit that will [...]
• The news isn’t encouraging. As reported by Corporation Week, family health care premiums increased 49% from 2000 to 2004.
Another increase of 12-15% is expected in 2005. General Motors expects to spend $5.6 billion on healthcare costs in 2005, or 40% more than it earned in profits in 2004.
• More and more research shows [...]
Studies have repeatedly demonstrated that extensive wellness programs, or Wellness Programs, can lower health care and insurance costs, lower rates of absenteeism, and improve performance and productivity.
Other benefits demonstrated in studies include improved ability to attract and retain key personnel, greater staff member allegiance, and improved public image of the corporation.
Healthcare and Insurance Costs
A [...]
The concern for worker health promotion is an increasing trend for American business. Why? the link between worker health promotion and the bottom line is clear and consistent.
Corporations who integrate wellness in their overall goals find they experience lowered absences, better morale, lowered health risks, and lowered healthcare costs.
The purpose of this guide to [...]