Employee Wellness SurveyEmployee Wellness Programs – Corporate Wellness Programs

Think ahead: what unexpected challenges might come up as you implement your Employee Health Promotion Program? How could you adapt and change the Employee Health Promotion Program to meet those challenges?

• Look at the “what if’s?”
 • What if your classroom space is suddenly no longer available?
 • What if you can’t hold the Health Fair in the usual place?
 • Have a ‘Plan B’ (or even Plan C or Plan D) in mind for when the “what if’s” happen.

• Build a team that can help with the Employee Health Promotion Program
 • Who else could teach the health education class if the regular instructor cancels at the last minute?
 • Know what areas of expertise your staff has besides their ‘main’ job. By way of example, find out who has excercise instructor credentials besides just the physical therapist.
 • Don’t wait for a crisis before you build a network of workers that you can call on.

• Be ready to roll your sleeves up
 • Jump in to fill a gap if you need to.
 • YOU may have to help restock the milk case in the dining facility when the Dairy Month ‘Milk Mustache’ contest results in increased sales during lunch.

• Be willing (and ready) to respond to feedback about the Employee Health Promotion Program
 • Get participant feedback while the Employee Health Promotion Program is ongoing. Then be ready to adapt to those suggestions.
 • By way of example, if kids in a pediatric obesity Employee Health Promotion Program fight the idea of completing exercise logs, then get a verbal summary of their activity for the week instead.

• Simplify Employee Health Promotion Program
 • If part of your Employee Health Promotion Program is not working, try making that part less complicated.
 • By way of example, if getting follow-up information is not going the way you planned, then make the process to get information easier OR decrease the number of pieces of information that you collect.

• Use lemons to make lemonade
 • What do you do when the Employee Health Promotion Program doesn’t turn out exactly as you planned? Look for what did turn out. Often, the ‘unexpected outcomes’ produce positive results.
 • By way of example, one installation’s database to collect sick call data was made obsolete by a regional system. However, the installation database was able to be used in a different way to track vaccination information that improved delivery of care to Employees.
 • At another installation, world events halted a new physical training program. Instead, Employee Health Promotion Program materials were made into a excercise guide.