Posted by Employee Wellness | Posted in Employee Wellness Survey | Posted on 26-12-2008
Employee retention is a challenge. Employee Health Promotion Programs can help. providing perks such as incentives to exercise, healthy food, and stress management and weight loss programs at work is a way to maintain your staff members satisfied.
Attracting new employees are also a challenge, and anything you can do to “stand out” from other staff members is to your advantage. Remember, salary isn’t everything. Often, the possibility of flex hours or a discount at the local gym may be the deciding factor for a future staff member. Once again, Employee Health Promotion Programs to the rescue!
How Are Employee Health Promotion Programs Administered?
Whether running small Employee Health Promotion Programs in-house or using outside corporate wellness businesses to oversee the whole thing, program promotion is of utmost importance. You may have a great speaker come in to talk about a very “hot topic,” but if no one knew about it, it was a waste of the speaker’s time and your money.
Corporate Employee Health Promotion Program setup and promotion go hand and hand. Depending on the size of your corporation, it may be handled by one person or an entire corporate wellness team. You may even have an staff member who is interested in physical fitness and would love to organize some educational wellness seminars and activities.
Other staff members may have areas of interest and would be willing to set up some educational programs. Especially for smaller employers, once you have chosen your events and activities, it is best to set up a calendar with a schedule of events. Then publish the entire calendar as well as announcing each individual event as it comes up.
Access to Employee Health Promotion Programs
To make access easy, offer a wide range of Employee Health Promotion Programs and activities that can fit into everyone’s schedule. For example, some staff members may find it difficult to get to a seminar at work or make a commitment for 8 weeks of the Weight Watchers at Work program. However, they will take advantage of a reduced rate at the gym and will borrow tapes from the health and wellness library.
If you have shifts, don’t forget to schedule events for the after 5:00 group. Nothing will undermine Employee Health Promotion Programs more quickly than promoting great activities that are only convenient for first shift staff members.
