Creating a Workplace Wellness Program

Creating a Workplace Wellness Program can have a huge impact on employee health and engagement, and it will help participants achieve their goals in this area.

Whether they have realized a dip in employee engagement, or an increase in health and benefit costs (both signs of less than optimal health for the workforce), intervention can influence a range of conditions when a workplace wellness program is implemented in the right way.

Session One: Course Overview

Session Two: The Case for Wellness

• Benefits of Workplace Wellness Programs
• Program Elements

Session Three: Building the Foundation

• Creating the Committee
• Outlining the Program
• Making Connections
• Gathering Resources
• Workplace Organizational Culture

Session Four: Gathering Support

• Taking Action
• Reflection

Session Five: Gathering Data

• Gathering Data
• Current Reality – Pre-Assignment Review
• Looking Around Us
• Research Help

Session Six: Performing a Needs Analysis

• The ICE Method
• Making the Pitch

Session Seven: Program Elements

• Designing Your Program, Part One
• Designing Your Program, Part Two
• Designing Your Program, Part Three

Session Eight: Implementing Your Workplace Wellness Program

• Implementation Options
• Identifying Motivators

Session Nine: Reviewing the Plan

• Evaluating Prior to Launch
• Getting the Executive on Board
• Getting Employees on Board

Session Ten: Evaluating and Reporting Results

• Ratios and Statistics
• Making it Count
• Recommended Reading List
• Personal Action Plan