Posted by Company Wellness | Posted in Company Wellness | Posted on 25-01-2009
Why have Company Wellness Program goals?
Company Wellness Program goals take your organization’s priorities for employee health improvement and make them specific and measurable. Well-defined Company Wellness Program goals provide direction for selecting Strategies and a basis for which to measure progress.
Writing Company Wellness Program goals
Writing Company Wellness Program goals is not complicated or difficult. It does require some thought, about your organization’s Company Wellness Program vision for a culture of health and they should be:
Specific Company Wellness Program Goals
Measurable Company Wellness Program Goals
Attainable Company Wellness Program Goals
Realistic Company Wellness Program Goals
Timely Company Wellness Program Goals
Specific Company Wellness Program Goals: What is the specific outcome your organization is looking for? “Reduce smoking among employees” is more specific than “Improve the health of employees.” You may wish to write some goals about specific outcomes (reducing smoking among employees) and other goals about specific progress (implementing a smoke-free campus policy or lowering the price of fresh fruit in the cafeteria to 25 cents a piece).
Measurable Company Wellness Program Goals: Making your goals measurable provides a means of evaluating your progress and success. There is a saying: “what gets measured, gets done.” Measurable goals can be effective motivators for your organization. “Provide more time for employees to be physically active” is much less measurable than “implement a daily 15-minute walking break into the schedule of all employees.” “Increase the number of employees who want to quit smoking” is less measurable than “increase enrollments in the stop-smoking program to 120 employees per year.”
Attainable Company Wellness Program Goals: Set goals that challenge your organization to change and that will demonstrate a real commitment to the health of the employees. At the same time, set goals that are achievable. Goals that are set too far out of reach can be overwhelming and may become a barrier rather than a motivator.
Realistic Company Wellness Program Goals: Write goals that are do-able, given the skills, time, finances and overall strategy of the organization. A realistic project may push the skills and knowledge of the people working on it but it shouldn’t break them.
Timely Company Wellness Program Goals: When do you hope to achieve the goal? Next week? Next year? Without a timeframe, the goal is still not clear and is much less likely to galvanize resources and energy within your organization.
“Reduce the percent of employees who use tobacco from 20 percent to 10 percent” is much less of a challenge than “By the end of 2010, reduce the percent of employees who use tobacco from 20 percent to 15 percent”.