Employer Wellness : Corporate Health Promotion Program: Incentive Seletion
Incentives encourage 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 Worksite Health Promotion Program, or help people change or adhere to healthy behaviors. Providing incentives/rewards and rewards will send an valuable message to the staff members that your employer is committed to assisting them with bettering their health. It also plays a valuable role in motivating people to participate.
Tips on how to choose appropriate rewards and incentives:
• Ascertain through an employee survey what incentives they value.
• Determine what rewards and incentives the employer can provide as well as what the budget will allow.
• Be sure that every attendant who achieves a objective receives some recognition.
• Avoid offering incentives/rewards for the “best” or the “most.”
• Avoid using food as a reward.
• Use rewards and incentives to promote your Company Health Promotion Program, through logos and branding.