Employee Wellness : Employee Health Promotion Program: Incentive Seletion

Incentives promote employees to adopt beneficial behaviors or maintain an existing beneficial behavior that may potentially help the employee stay healthy and live longer. Adopting beneficial health behavior is fundamentally what wellness is about.

Incentives can be used to stimulate participation rates, help people complete a Company Health Promotion Program, or help people shift or adhere to healthy lifestyles. Providing incentives and rewards and rewards will send an important message to the staff members that your corporation is committed to supporting them with improving their health. It also plays a important role in motivating people to participate.

Tips on how to choose appropriate incentives and rewards:

• Identify through an employee survey what incentives/rewards they value.
• Identify what incentives the employer can support as well as what the budget will allow.
• Be sure that every participant who achieves a objective receives some recognition.
• Avoid offering rewards and incentives for the “best” or the “most.”
• Avoid using food as a reward.
• Use rewards and incentives to encourage your Workplace Health Promotion Program, through logos and branding.