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Why have Employee Health Promotion Program objectives?

Employee Health Promotion Program objectives take your business’s priorities for employee health improvement and make them specific and measurable. Well-defined Employee Health Promotion Program objectives provide direction for selecting Procedures and a basis for which to measure progress.

Writing Employee Health Promotion Program objectives

Writing Employee Health Promotion Program objectives is not complicated or difficult. It does require some thought, about your business’s Employee Health Promotion Program vision for a culture of wellness and they should be:
 
 Specific Employee Health Promotion Program Goals
 Measurable Employee Health Promotion Program Goals
 Attainable Employee Health Promotion Program Goals
 Realistic Employee Health Promotion Program Goals
 Timely Employee Health Promotion Program Goals

Specific Employee Health Promotion Program Goals: What is the specific outcome your business is looking for? “Reduce tobacco use among staff members” is more specific than “Improve the health of staff members.” You may wish to write some objectives about specific outcomes (reducing smoking among staff members) and other objectives about specific progress (implementing a smoke-free campus policy or decreasing the price of fresh fruit in the cafeteria to 25 cents a piece).

Measurable Employee Health Promotion Program Goals: Making your objectives measurable provides a means of evaluating your progress and success. There is an adage: “what gets measured, gets done.” Goals which are measurable can be powerful motivators for your business. “Provide more time for staff members to be physically active” is much less measurable than “implement a daily 15-minute walking break into the schedule of all staff members.” “Increase the number of staff members who want to quit smoking” is less measurable than “increase enrollments in the stop-using tobacco program to 120 staff members per year.”

Attainable Employee Health Promotion Program Goals: Determine objectives that challenge your business to change and that will demonstrate a real commitment to employee health. At the same time, set objectives that are achievable. Goals that are set too far out of reach can be overwhelming and may become a barrier rather than a motivator.

Realistic Employee Health Promotion Program Goals: Write objectives that are do-able, given the skills, time, finances and overall strategy of the business. A realistic project may push the skills and knowledge of the people working on it but it shouldn’t break them.

Timely Employee Health Promotion Program Goals: When do you hope to achieve the goal? Next week? Next year? Without a timeframe, the goal is still not clear and is much less likely to galvanize resources and energy within your business.

“Reduce the percent of staff members who use tobacco from 20% to 10%” is much less of a challenge than “By the end of 2010, reduce the percent of staff members who use tobacco from 20% to 15%”.