Creating a Worksite Wellness Program company Plan, part 2

Worksite Wellness Program company plan review (from Key #19)
• A Worksite Wellness Program company plan is a roadmap for success.
• Your Worksite Wellness Program company plan should convincingly demonstrate that your Worksite Wellness Program will help the organization to achieve its goals.

More smart Worksite Wellness Program company planning strategies

Planning the Worksite Wellness Program
• Find out how your organization plans so that your planning process will be in sync with what already happens in the company.
• Involve other employees. A planning team brings their combined experience and perspective to the process. Including potential partners as you plan will make it easier to get their buy-in later.

Thinking of the big picture
• Consider the barriers and challenges that might be encountered during Worksite Wellness Program implementation. Develop strategies ahead of time to overcome these potential problems.
• Do a SWOT analysis and examine Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.

This analysis will help you establish potential problem areas or resource shortfalls as well as opportunities for growth or increased partnerships with other company personnel.

The WORST company planning strategy: sitting in your office; working by yourself.

The best Worksite Wellness Program company planning strategies
• Get out of your office; get out of the company. The more employees you involve in the Worksite Wellness Program planning process, the better. Always look for ways to expand your network.
• Keep your budget employees informed. Get to know their philosophy of financial management.
• Be able to articulate the impact if your budget is not fully funded.
o Avoid basing your impact-if-not-funded argument solely on: “We have to.”
o Instead, describe the impact-if-not-funded with phrases like: injuries to workers, increased compensation costs, increased medical care costs for patients, lost work time, loss of licenses/accreditations, loss of workload to the Tricare network.
• Have purchase requests ready to be submitted. There is frequently a short window of time to process these requests. Having the information gathered ahead of time will make it easy to submit the information right away.

A well thought-out Worksite Wellness Program company plan is essential in these times of shrinking budgets and resources. A good company plan will help you gain leadership support and help you get and keep resources needed to begin the Corporate Wellness Program.