Wellness Library : Corporate Wellness Program: formulate a Detailed Action Plan
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The Employee Wellness Program Committee should set out a plan for the entire year that outlines accomplishing objectives and goals, as well as supports details for marketing and evaluating the program. The plan is the detailed map of what types of programs will be available, when and where they will be scheduled, how they will be marketed and evaluated, and what the budget is. It is valuable to plan your wellness activities based on your objectives and goals, as well as the budget since different strategies will yield different outcomes. For example, if your intention is to broaden awareness on a topic, then distributing handouts or scheduling a one-time education session may be appropriate. Still, if your objective is to change behavior, then different strategies may be necessary, such as ongoing weekly sessions and support groups. Click here to link to Program Design Options for additional ideas.
Worksite Wellness Program Marketing
Now is the time to plan your marketing strategies! How can you market the wellness program and ongoing activities? No matter how you decide to, market often, keep it fresh, and remind employees repeatedly! Consider having an overall kickoff exercise to inform everyone of the wellness program. Upper Management must offer the introduction or invitation so that all employees are cognizant of their backing and leadership in the program.
Possible marketing methods:
• Distributing email messages, including reminders
• Establish flyers,
• Putting up bulletin board postings,
• Composing articles,
• Sending letters or
• Sending special invitations.
Other Workplace Health Promotion Program Considerations:
• Is the Employee Health Promotion Program promoted to all staff members or to a specific target audience?
• Do you have a Corporate Wellness Program champion (someone who is joined with different groups in the organization, and well respected) who can help in your promotion efforts?
• If your marketing efforts aren’t working, do you have a way to revisit and change your strategy?
• How will you determine success and evaluate your program? And how will you gather the information necessitated to evaluate your program?
Topics most frequently included in Workplace Wellness Programs:
• Nutrition
• Physical Activity/Exercise
• Tobacco Use Cessation
• Bone Health
• Heart Health
• The Spine
• Stress Reduction
• Chronic Disease Awareness & Prevention
• Self-care; Wise Health Care Consumer
• Screening Services (BMI, Blood Pressure, bone density, cholesterol, glucose, posture, vision, and other…)
• Ergonomic Assessments
• Health Fairs
• Kids/family Events
• Others subject matters that workers have interest in
The topics and type of Workplace Health Promotion Program planned hinge upon the needs and interest, overall objective and resources available. Program Design Options include awareness programs such as pamphlets and/or education sessions, behavior modification programs such as tobacco cessation and weight loss classes, and environmental or employer reinforcement such as no smoking policies or healthy selections in snack machines.
The programs planned also depend on the demographics of your workforce. If you have a young, healthy workforce, you may want to focus the wellness attention on keeping employees healthy and not need to screen for disease. Instead you might want to focus on healthy lifestyle behavior such as exercise and great nutrition to prevent the start of disease. Click here for more information on strategies for keeping employees well, identifying disease early, or returning employees to work who already have a chronic disease.
It is also important to consider, and plan how you will evaluate the effectiveness of your wellness program. The system needs to be determined for tracking certain data and recording events depending on the program objectives and goals. Step 7 discusses program assessment in more detail. And Step 6 will launch your program!
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