Employee Health Promotion

Why have Employee Health Promotion Program objectives?

Employee Health Promotion Program objectives take your organization’s priorities for employee health improvement and make them specific and measurable. Well-defined Employee Health Promotion Program objectives provide direction for deciding on Strategies and a basis for which to measure progress.

Writing Employee Health Promotion Program objectives

Writing Employee Health Promotion Program objectives is not complicated or difficult. It does require some thought, about your organization’s Employee Health Promotion Program vision for a culture of wellness and they should be:

Specific Employee Health Promotion Program Goals
Measurable Employee Health Promotion Program Goals
Attainable Employee Health Promotion Program Goals
Realistic Employee Health Promotion Program Goals
Timely Employee Health Promotion Program Goals

Specific Employee Health Promotion Program Goals: What is the specific outcome your organization is looking for? “Reduce smoking among employees” is more specific than “Improve the health of employees.” You may wish to write some objectives about specific outcomes (reducing smoking among employees) and other objectives about specific progress (implementing a tobacco-free campus policy or reducing the price of fresh fruit in the cafeteria to 25 cents a piece).

Measurable Employee Health Promotion Program Goals: Making your objectives measurable provides a means of evaluating your progress and success. There is an adage: “what gets measured, gets done.” Measurable objectives can be powerful motivators for your organization. “Provide more time for employees to be physically active” is much less measurable than “implement a daily 15-minute walking break into the schedule of all employees.” “Increase the number of employees who want to quit smoking” is less measurable than “increase enrollments in the stop-smoking program to 120 employees per year.”

Attainable Employee Health Promotion Program Goals: Set objectives that challenge your organization to change and that will demonstrate a real commitment to employee health. At the same time, set objectives that are achievable. Goals that are set too far out of reach can be overwhelming and may become a barrier rather than a motivator.

Realistic Employee Health Promotion Program Goals: Write objectives that are do-able, given the skills, time, finances and overall strategy of the organization. A realistic project may push the skills and knowledge of the people working on it but it shouldn’t break them.

Timely Employee Health Promotion Program Goals: When do you hope to achieve the goal? Next week? Next year? Without a timeframe, the goal is still vague and is much less likely to galvanize resources and energy within your organization.

“Reduce the percent of employees who use tobacco from 20% to 10%” is much less of a challenge than “By the end of 2010, reduce the percent of employees who use tobacco from 20% to 15%”.