Worksite Wellness : 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 improve participation rates, help people complete a Worksite Wellness , or help people modify or adhere to healthy lifestyles. Providing incentives/rewards and rewards will send an important message to the employees that your organization is committed to supporting them with improving their health. It also plays a important role in motivating people to take part. Tips on how to choose appropriate incentives/rewards:

• Ascertain through an employee survey what incentives/rewards they value.
• Ascertain what incentives/rewards the organization can offer as well as what the budget will allow.
• Be sure that every colleague who achieves a goal receives some recognition.
• Avoid offering incentives/rewards for the “best” or the “most.”
• Avoid using food as a reward.
• Use incentives/rewards to promote your Worksite Wellness , through logos and branding.