How can our business increase participation in the corporate health promotion program?

Having a corporate health promotion program in place can improve morale, improve health and fitness and increase productivity in the workplace. Now that you’ve taken the steps necessary to begin a corporate health promotion program, how do you get your employees interested and willing to participate?

By beginning healthful eating habits, exercise and offering incentives, your workers will not only sign up for the health promotion program, but they’ll stick with it.

Does your business have an onsite gym that employees have access to? When not, offering free or discounted gym memberships to a local gym can be an effective method for getting employees to exercise. Whether the gym is on or off-site however, allowing employees to use the facility during work hours, like on their lunch break, will increase the likelihood that they’ll exercise.

Rewarding employees’ achievements is another way to keep them aroused and living a healthy lifestyle. Setting business goals such as collectively walking a certain number of miles, supports team building. Offering incentives such as gift cards, certificates of achievement, and even a day off work may be effective ways to keep participation levels up.

Since there will likely be less sick days being used due to disease, your company may  be able to afford to offer a day off pass as an incentive. These incentives don’t have to be expensive, just valuable to the worker.

Providing a healthful lunch once a week for employees participating in the corporate health plan, is a great way to promote healthful consuming. Offering an incentive of healthful, delicious, free food is one way to reward employees for their efforts while supporting their new healthful lifestyle.

Having a corporate health promotion program in place will provide long term benefits to both the business and the employees. This is one corporate plan that is definitely worth your time and money!