Wellness Program Action Plans.  

The Wellness Committee ought to set out a plan for the entire year that outlines accomplishing objectives and objectives, in addition to provides details for advertising and investigating  the program.

The plan is the detailed map of what types of programs will be offered, when and where they’ll be scheduled, how they’ll be marketed and evaluated, and what the budget is.  

It is important to plan your wellness activities based on your goals and goals, in addition to the budget since different strategies will yield different outcomes.  For example, when your objective is to increase awareness on a topic, then distributing  handouts or scheduling a one-time education session might  be appropriate.  

Notwithstanding, if your goal is to change behavior, then different strategies could  be necessary, such as ongoing weekly sessions and support groups.  Click here to link to Program Design Options for additional ideas.

Wellness Program Advertising and Marketing

This is the time to plan your marketing and advertising strategies!  How can you market the wellness program and ongoing activities?  No matter how you decide to, market often, keep it fresh, and remind employees again and again!  

Consider having an overall kickoff activity to let everyone know about the wellness program.  Upper Management ought to provide the introduction or invitation so that all workers are aware of their support and leadership in the program.

Possible marketing methods -

• Sending email messages, including reminders

• Posting flyers,

• Displaying bulletin board postings,

• Writing articles,

• Sending letters or

• Sending special invitations.  

Other Wellness Program Considerations -

• is the program promoted to all workers or to a specific target audience?

• Do you’ve a program champion (someone who is connected with different groups in the organization, and well respected) who can help in your promotion efforts?

• If your advertising and marketing efforts do not seem to be working, do you have a way to revisit and adjust your strategy?

• How will you determine success and evaluate your program?  and how will you collect the information needed to evaluate your program?  

Topics most often included in Wellness Programs -

• Nutrition

• Physical Activity/Exercise

• Tobacco Use Cessation

• Bone Health

• Heart Health

• Healthy Back

• Stress Reduction

• Chronic Disease Awareness and Prevention

• Self-care; Wise Health Care Consumer

• Screening Services (Body Mass Index, blood pressure, bone density, cholesterol, glucose, posture, vision, and other…)

• Ergonomic Assessments

• Wellness Fairs

• Kids/family Events

• Others topics that employees have interest in  

The topics and type of Wellness Program planned depend on the needs and interest, overall goal and resources available.  

Program Design Choices include awareness programs such as  handouts and/or education sessions, behavior change or modification programs such as tobacco use cessation and weight loss classes, and environmental or organizational support such as no tobacco use policies or healthy selections in vending machines.  

The programs planned also depend on the demographics of your workforce.  When you have a young, healthful workforce, you may want to focus the wellness attention on keeping staff members healthful and not need to screen for illness.  

Instead you could want to focus on healthy lifestyle behavior like exercise and good nutrition to prevent the begin of illness.  Click here for additional information on strategies for keeping workers well, identifying illness early, or returning workers to work who already have a chronic illness.

It is also important to consider, and plan how you’ll evaluate the success of your wellness program.  The system needs to be established for tracking certain data and recording events depending on the program objectives and desired outcomes.  

Step 7 discusses program evaluation in more detail.   and Step 6 will launch your program!