Posted by Employer Wellness | Posted in Employer Wellness | Posted on 22-10-2008
Employee retention is a challenge. Employee Health Promotion Programs can help. offering perks such as healthy food, incentives to exercise weight loss and stress management programs at work is a way to keep your staff members satisfied.
Attracting new staff members 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 organizations 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 Employer Wellness 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 Employee Health Promotion 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 corporations, 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 decreased rate at the gym and will borrow tapes from the health and wellness library.
If you have shifts, remember 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.