Posted by Employer Wellness | Posted in Employer Wellness | Posted on 25-12-2008
Employer Wellness Program employer plan review (from Key #19)
• A Employer Wellness Program employer plan is a roadmap for success.
• Your Employer Wellness Program employer plan should convincingly demonstrate that your Employer Wellness Program will help the organization to achieve its goals.
More smart Employer Wellness Program employer planning strategies
Planning the Employer Wellness Program
• Determine how your organization plans so that your planning process will be in sync with what already happens in the organization.
• Involve other workers. A planning team brings their combined experience and perspective to the process. Including potential partners as you plan will make it easier to get their buy-in later.
Thinking of the big picture
• Consider the barriers and challenges that might be encountered during Employer Wellness Program implementation. Develop strategies ahead of time to overcome these potential problems.
• Do a SWOT analysis and examine Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.
This analysis will help you identify potential problem areas or resource shortfalls and opportunities for growth or increased partnerships with other company personnel.
The WORST employer planning strategy: sitting in your office; working by yourself.
The best Employer Wellness Program employer planning strategies
• Get out of your office; get out of the employer. The more workers you involve in the Employer Wellness Program planning process, the better. Always look for ways to expand your network.
• Keep your budget workers informed. Get to know their philosophy of financial management.
• Be able to articulate the impact if your budget is not fully funded.
o Avoid basing your impact-if-not-funded argument solely on: “We have to.”
o Instead, describe the impact-if-not-funded with phrases like: injuries to workers, raised compensation costs, raised medical care costs for patients, lost work time, loss of licenses/accreditations, loss of workload to the Tricare network.
• Always have purchase requests ready to be submitted. There is frequently a short window of time to process these requests. Having the information gathered ahead of time will make it easy to submit the information right away.
A well thought-out Employer Wellness Program employer plan is essential in these times of shrinking budgets and resources. A good employer plan will help you gain leadership support and help you get and keep resources needed to begin the Employee Health Promotion Program.