Company Health and Wellness : Worksite Health Promotion Program: Incentive Seletion

Incentives promote staff members to adopt beneficial behaviors or maintain an existing beneficial behavior that may potentially help the employee stay healthy and live longer. Adopting beneficial health behavior is fundamentally what wellness is about.

Incentives can be used to increase participation rates, help people complete a Employee Wellness Program, or help people modify or adhere to healthy lifestyles. Providing incentives and rewards and rewards will send an valuable message to the employees that your company is committed to helping them with improving their health. It also plays a valuable role in motivating people to participate.

Tips on how to choose appropriate incentives:

• Ascertain through an employee survey what rewards and incentives they value.
• Identify what rewards and incentives the employer can support as well as what the budget will allow.
• Be sure that every participant who achieves a goal receives some recognition.
• Avoid offering incentives and rewards for the “best” or the “most.”
• Avoid using food as a reward.
• Use rewards and incentives to encourage your Company Wellness Program, through logos and branding.