Wellness might be the fatal flaw in your Corporate Health Promotion Program. Is Wellness part of your strategy? Does workplace wellness stop when your employees leave the office? 

Wellness Continuity 

If employees don’t have the tools to pursue health and wellness on a Personal level, then it becomes easy for them to “fall off the wagon” and slide back into a unealthy lifestyles. If you have a walking program, for example, it should encourage employees to build walking routes near their homes, perhaps with the cooperation of the neighborhood association or coworkers who live in the neighborhood. 

Corporate Health Promotion Programs: Always on Your Mind 

Your Corporate Health Promotion Program coordinator should have “vacation wellbeing” as part of their job description. In other words, you don’t want a Corporate Health Promotion Program to stop at the boundaries of the workplace campus. Instead, integrate Personal health and wellness with your Corporate Health Promotion Programs. 

This benefits your Corporate Health Promotion Programs in a couple of ways: 

it reduces the chance that the employee will come back to the office feeling unfit, overwhelmed and unable to resume their Corporate Health Promotion Programs; and

it shows that their business is just as invested in their Personal health and wellness as they are 

Like a marathon, Personal health and wellness is a long-term venture and it’s challenging for anyone to do in isolation. Simply put, it’s easier to maintain your state of health when you know others are depending on you and watching your Personal performance. It’s easier to stick to an physical activity program when you have a jogging partner who wakes you up when you oversleep, or spots you when you’re lifting weights. 

Similarly, it’s easier to stick to your Corporate Health Promotion Program when you know your business is supporting you and wishing you the best. 

Don’t Dictate Personal Health 

Just as Wellness surveys serve a vital function in building a Corporate Health Promotion Program, it’s critical that you involve employees in designing an off-site wellness strategy. No one enjoys being told what to do, but everyone enjoys having assistance in tacking tough problems. Make it clear that employees are in charge of their own health and wellness. Your role as their health management partner is to support, advise, counsel, offer resources and information. 

Of course, don’t forget that part of Personal health and wellness responsibility is to offer good health risk assessment baselines so employees can proceed safely on the road to better fitness.