Corporate Wellness.

Start a Wellness Program for Your Employees Today

The benefits to starting a wellness program are many.

A few corporate wellness tips to get workers began on the path to a healthier lifestyle -

1. Look around, and determine when staff members lead a healthful lifestyle before beginning an staff member wellness program.

• How many employees dash outside during lunch for a smoke break?
• Would a tobacco use cessation program help?
• How often do the junk food-laden vending machines have to be replenished?
• is anyone exercising or taking benefit of local walking trails as part of their healthy living goals?

The answers to these questions will give companies a better idea of the worker wellness program that’s right for them.

2. Survey staff members to determine their healthy lifestyle habits.

• Are they exercising regularly?
• Eat three square meals a day?
Have regular physicals? Really? Then what planet are they on?

Because we would love to visit! A wellness program benefits most companies because staff members do not have the time or energy to stay on top of wellness concerns at work or when they leave the office to go home.

3. Give wellness programs a big kick-off with a healthy living “fair.” Offer employees free flu shots, blood pressure (BP) checks, cholesterol screenings, body/fat ratio assessments, tobacco use cessation programs and free mammograms- and contact the local hospital, because there’s plenty more where this came from.

Companies keep their employees hopping during the week. Provide employees a chance to amp up their healthy lifestyle on the company dime. A wellness program is an added benefit that employees get for working for the company!

4. Incent to live- offer cash for employees to lose weight, commit to a smoking cessation program and usually enjoy a healthier lifestyle.

Be certain to encourage humankind’s innate competitive nature by offering prizes for wellness staff member “winners.” And, encourage a healthier lifestyle by sponsoring workers who want to enter a local 5K for charity race, run a marathon or play a sport.