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Corporate-Wellness-Companies.com would like to welcome Wellness Proposals to our directory of the nation's best corporate wellness companies and wellness consultants.
The sky is the limit when it comes to employee wellness program ideas. With a little imagination and creativity you can easily develop and extensive list of possible employee wellness program ideas. To simplify the process we've put together the following list of employee wellness program ideas:
Use interactive displays to educate, promote health and explain the advantages of prevention / wellness. Consider offering health screenings with a focus on enhancing health and wellness rather than disease. Consider inviting community partners to promote an active lifestyle and healthy eating. Sample health fair / wellness fair activities include:
- Nutrition Booths: information on healthy eating, samples of healthy snacks, healthy cooking demonstration
- Fitness Booths: demonstrations of aerobic, stretching and strength activities; information on activities that can be done at home or while at work
- Stress Management Information
- Offer Health risk assessments in conjunction with employee health screenings
- Chair Massage
- Parks and Recreation programs/offerings
- Invite the local health department to discuss the programs and activities that they offer
- Invite local chapters of the American Heart Association, American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association, etc.
- Invite local fitness centers to provide assessments and fitness-related information
- Ergonomic assessment
- Smoking cessation / tobacco cessation booth
- Hold walking meetings or standing meetings
- Plan morning and / or afternoon staff walks
- Theme-based walking programs (e.g. walk across the United States, walk to Florida, etc.)
- Participate in organized fitness contests (e.g. The President’s Challenge)
- Form teams and participate in community fitness activities (bike ride, walk-a-thon, etc.)
- Have a Fitness Fair where you offer different exercise demonstrations
- Have an onsite boot camp
- Set-up a walking trail with exercise stations
- Have physical activity/stretching breaks during meetings.
- Host healthy cooking demonstrations
- Have a healthy recipe contest
- Start an onsite farmers market
- Provide gardening demonstrations
- Have a healthy cooking contest
- Weight Watchers onsite programming
- Have a weight loss contest
- Require that all meetings offer healthy food alternatives.
- Host stress management sessions (i.e., music therapy, aromatherapy, yoga or Tai Chi, post-disaster stress reduction, new mom support group, etc.).
- Offer stress management courses
- Stress management
- Time management
- Assertiveness training
- Relaxation / Meditation
- Massage therapy
- Laughter as medicine
- Dietary Supplements and Herbs
- Eating healthy
- Healthy cooking
- Tips for healthy grocery shopping
- Eating on the run
- What is wellness?
- Balancing work / life
- Weight loss and weight management
- Effective marriages/relationships
- Safe Exercise (hot / cold weather, balanced exercise, etc)
- How to change bad health habits
- Send periodic wellness messages to staff via email.
- Provide an Employee Wellness Newsletter. An excellent source for high quality, FREE, weekly employee wellness newsletters can be found at Wellness Proposals.
- Display wellness posters in strategic facility locations (i.e., physical activity posters by the elevators to encourage use of the stairs, signs by or on water fountains about the importance of drinking water, etc.)
- Offer a wellness orientation for new employees to clearly demonstrate the organizations commitment to wellness programs and health promotion.
- Create an onsite employee wellness library.
- Provide annual flu shots as part of your employee wellness programs