Corporate Wellness.

Start a Wellness Program for Your Workers Today

The benefits to beginning a wellness program are many.

A few corporate wellness tips to get staff members started on the path to a healthier lifestyle –

1. Look around, and determine if workers lead a healthy lifestyle before beginning an staff member wellness program.

• How many staff members dash outside during lunchtime for a smoke break?
• Would a smoking cessation program help?
• How often do the junk food-laden vending machines have to be replenished?
• is anybody exercising or taking advantage of local walking trails as part of their healthy living goals?

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

2. Survey employees to determine their healthful 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 corporations because staff members don’t 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 staff members free flu shots, blood pressure (BP) checks, cholesterol screenings, body/fat ratio assessments, use of tobacco cessation programs and free mammograms- and contact the local hospital, because there’s plenty more where this came from.

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

4. Incent to live- offer money for employees to lose weight, commit to a use of tobacco cessation program and typically enjoy a healthier lifestyle.

Make sure to encourage humankind’s innate competitive nature by offering prizes for wellness employee “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.