Establishinging a Corporate Wellness Plan
Corporate Wellness Programs begin and end with individual health. Individuals, after all, are able to make decisions about maintaining and / or improving their health and wellbeing. Employee Corporate Wellness Programs must therefore provide the tools and resources necessary to assist and motivate individuals to actively participate in the program.
Individual health is only one part of starting staff member Corporate Wellness Programs. Below you’ll find some things to assist you in your efforts to develop a healthy atmosphere for you and your coworkers.
Encouraging Your Employer to Create an Corporate Wellness Plan
This is the first step in starting a Corporate Wellness Program. In recent times more and more employers are starting to see the value of promoting and supporting the health of their staff members. Partnership for Prevention, a nonprofit organization, has released a sourcebook called “Healthy Workforce 2010″ (http://www.wellnessproposals.com/pdfs/tool_kits/healthy_workforce_2010.pdf). This sourcebook is an excellent resource containing information on:
• Benefits of Corporate Wellness Programs
• Suggestions on where to begin
• Tools like surveys and assessment forms
These resources are for both employers and staff members to guide the development and assess the effectiveness of their new Corporate Wellness Program. Provide it to your employer as a place to begin or read it yourself and present your ideas.
Participating in Corporate Wellness Programs
Once you have an staff member Corporate Wellness Plan established, participating fully in all facets of the program is important. Many of us know that we need to more actively engage in Corporate Wellness Programs to enhance our health, yet have difficulty finding and taking the time to do so. These simple steps can jumpstart your participation in an staff member Corporate Wellness Program:
• Examine the offerings that interest you and that you need for health improvement.
• Schedule time to go to the seminar or service.
• Actively following through with recommendations from the program.
• Make a decision now to enhance your health. You will feel better today and tomorrow and the next day for actively moving towards wellness.
Here is a list of potential Corporate Wellness Programs that might be available to you at work:
• ergonomic evaluations and training classes
• lactation rooms and classes
• prenatal education
• quiet rooms for relaxation
• stress management programs
• onsite fitness centers
• onsite corporate massage
• nutrition education
• onsite primary health care services
• child care facility or resources and referral service
• smoking cessation programs parenting classes
• Senior care resources and referral service
• cholesterol, blood pressure and glucose screening programs
• flu vaccination
• weight management programs
• health care consumerism programs
• work/life programs
• health coaching
• mobile mammography
More information to follow in my next posting about Employee Corporate Wellness Programs
March 2nd, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Great info! It’s so important, especially during these times, to make sure employees are in top shape. Even if the employees pay for services, like chair massage, on their own, it’s really showing that the employer cares and is on board to help improve overall health and well-being.