Employee Wellness Newsletter : Corporate Wellness Program Step 1: Set The Foundation: Build Support Throughout the company

A key to a successful Company Wellness Program requires management responsibility and employee involvement.

Corporate Health Promotion Program Step 2: Create a Corporate Health Promotion Program Committee

An active Corporate Wellness Program Committee ensures employee involvement, provides buy-in, management reinforcement, and maintains a crew that is prepared to take action to integrate wellness programs.

Workplace Health Promotion Program Step 3: Gather Data to Ascertain Key Needs and Expectations

The next critical step is to base the Workplace Wellness Program on the needs and interests of your business and its employees.

Worksite Wellness Program Step 4: Create Goals and Objectives

Goals and objectives constitute the maps to guide you where your program needs to go.   These are the foundation for planning and evaluating activities to ensure that your wellness program will meet your special needs.

Worksite Health Promotion Program Step 5: Establish a Detailed Action Plan

There is no such thing as too much planning!  The best of intentions can get lost, overstepped, or forgotten in the absence ofadequate planning, and then it would be all for naught.

Workplace Wellness Program Step 6: Select and Start a Plan

Now that you have the needs assessment data, a Worksite Wellness Program Committee, goals/objectives it’s now time to put your plan into action!

Workplace Health Promotion Program Step 7: Oversee and Evaluate Your Workplace Health Promotion Program

Evaluation is a critical step to keep a program on target, as well as to see that the program is reaching its objectives and goals or achieving the desired results.

In Summary

These Seven Steps outline considerations for a accross the board approach to establishing an effective wellness program.  Are you able to start components of wellness activities without following these steps?  Certainly, but you may lack the sustainability or ability to bring about desired outcomes.  Following the Seven Steps does not have to be difficult or burdensome.  A very simple approach can achieve a successful wellness program!

Therefore, to ensure a successful wellness program consider the key components as you plan your program or improve your current program:

• Upper Management Support & Employee Involvement
• Active Corporate Health Promotion Program Committee
• Corporate Health Promotion Program is Based on Employee Needs & Interests
• Employee Wellness Program Goals and Objectives are Determined
• Detailed Workplace Health Promotion Program Action Plan Based on Resources & Budget
• Workplace Health Promotion Program Implementation & Internal Marketing
• Assessment of Company Wellness Program Outcomes