Wellness Program Incentives

As with any program, the two critical elements for the performance of your wellness program are senior staff backing & employee participation.  Senior Management sets the vision and arranges the resources from which action plans flow.  Genuine backing from senior personnel also lends credibility to the wellness program.  It is critical that senior staff be visible supporters and role models for your Employee Health Promotion Program.

staff members need to be involved on several levels so that they feel ownership of the wellness program.  Workers are the program stakeholders!  All staff members must have a chance to provide input and feedback through needs & interest surveys and program assessment tools.  The information gathered must be used to plan programs that target those needs and interests to ensure participation, buy-in, and support.

There are several methods to identify employee needs and interests such as:

• Holding Employee Focus Groups
• Discussing Wellness Interests During Department meetings
• Distributing and Encapsulating a Needs & Interest Survey
• (Including|Allowing for|Making sure to include} a Chance to Give Recommendations on Each Assessment Tool  

Any one or combination of several techniques will ensure that the wellness program meets what workers want.

Step 3 supplies additional information on determining wellness program needs.  But first, instituting a Workplace Wellness Program Committee can help you involve upper management & staff members, determine need, and plan your wellness program.