Employee Health Promotion

A key to a successful Employee Health Promotion requires management responsibility
and employee involvement.

Employee Health Promotion Step 2: Create a Employee Health Promotion
Committee

An active Employee Health Promotion Committee sees to employee involvement,
supplies buy-in, management support, and maintains a team that is ready to take
action to launch wellness programs.

Employee Health Promotion Step 3: Gather Data to Determine Key Needs
and Expectations

The next essential step is to base the Employee Health Promotion on the needs
and interests of your organization and its employees.

Employee Health Promotion Step 4: Create Goals and Objectives

Goals and objectives are the road maps to guide you where your program needs
to go. These make up the foundation for planning and evaluating activities to
ensure that your wellness program will meet your unique needs.

Employee Health Promotion Step 5: Design a Detailed Action Plan

There is no such thing as over-planning! The best of intentions can get lost,
overstepped, or forgotten withoutadequate planning, and then it would be all
for naught.

Employee Health Promotion Step 6: Select and Launch a Plan

Once you have the needs assessment information, a Employee Health Promotion
Committee, goals/objectives it’s now time to put your plan into action!

Employee Health Promotion Step 7: Monitor and Evaluate Your Employee
Health Promotion

Evaluation is an important step to keep a program on target, as well as to
see that the program is reaching its goals/objectives or achieving the desired
outcome.

In Summary

These Seven Steps outline considerations for a accross the board approach to
implementing an effective wellness program. Would you be able to enable components
of wellness activities without referring to these steps? Certainly, but you
may lack the sustainability or ability to see desired outcomes. Following the
Seven Steps does not have to be difficult or burdensome. A very simple approach
can achieve a successful wellness program!

Therefore, to ensure a successful wellness program consider the key components
as you plan your program or improve your current program:

• Senior Management Support & Employee Involvement
• Active Employee Health Promotion Committee
• Employee Health Promotion is Based on Employee Needs & Interests
• Employee Health Promotion Goals and Objectives are Established
• Detailed Employee Health Promotion Action Plan Based upon Resources &
  Budget
• Employee Health Promotion Implementation & Internal Marketing
• Evaluation of Employee Health Promotion Outcomes