Your workplace wellness program likely includes topics such as eating healthfully, exercising, getting preventive screenings, and dealing stress, but does your program cover being prepared for emergencies – at the workplace and at home? Emergency preparedness is an often overlooked area of health and wellness, but is an important subject that your employees need and…
Don’t just have a workplace wellness program; sell its benefits to your audience through effective marketing communications Company A informs employees about its workplace wellness program during new employee orientation and then periodically through a general company newsletter. Company B uses short, often humorous, messages with eye-catching visuals to provide workers with information on the…
If you want to add muscle to your wellness messages, don’t forget to include pictures — more specifically, humorous illustrations. Funny, witty cartoons can carry with them a certain power that can’t be conveyed in words alone. “Cartoons and illustrations are one of the most memorable forms of printed communication,” according to the Hope Health…
It’s December – time to be thinking about how to make 2018 the best year yet for your organization. To establish your company as the employer-of-choice so you can attract and retain the best employees around and enjoy consistent high levels of morale and productivity, you need to make employee communication your top priority. Employee…
Communication — including workplace wellness program communication — is the exchange of thoughts, information, and/or messages between people. The key word being exchange. If it’s not a back-and-forth, two-way discussion, it’s one-way lecturing, and who appreciates a lecture? Smart organizations ask employees for their wellness program questions and comments, and invite employees to participate in…
If all of a sudden, your work calendar was deleted, how would you feel? Panicked? If you’re like many health, wellness and human resources professionals, probably. Without calendars, many of us would be lost – not knowing what we were supposed to do or where we were supposed to be when. Calendars are just as…
Health and wellness shouldn’t be a once-in-awhile idea that people think about and act upon when it’s convenient or when they have a little bit of extra time. We all live and breathe constantly so we should be active in keeping our minds and bodies in the best conditions possible each and every day. You…
As a wellness program participant, what would you think sounds like more fun: filling out a health-risk assessment and seeing what areas of your health you need to improve…or attending a wellness fair where you sample a tasty recipe and try out a new fitness class? You’re probably thinking, “Duh, that’s a pretty easy question…
There is a big difference between employees thinking, “It’s nice that our company has this wellness program” and employees enthusiastically cheering, “I want to be part of these workplace wellness efforts!” For a workplace wellness program to be as effective as possible, employees need to feel like they’re on the inside of a fun, entertaining…
In an excellent article, “122 Things Everyone Should Know About Investing and the Economy,” by Morgan Housel of the Motley Fools, he talks about the importance of key principles (see item #25 in the article). Housel uses this quotation to make his point. “When you first start to study a field, it seems like you…
