Creating a Workplace Wellness Plan employer Plan, part 2

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

More smart Workplace Wellness Plan employer planning strategies

Planning the Workplace Wellness Plan
• Find out how your organization plans so that your planning process will be in sync with what already happens in the organization.
• 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 Workplace Wellness Plan 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 identify potential problem areas or resource shortfalls and opportunities for growth or improved partnerships with other company personnel.

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

The best Workplace Wellness Plan employer planning strategies
• Get out of your office; get out of the employer. The more employees you involve in the Workplace Wellness Plan 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 only 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.
• Always have purchase requests ready to be submitted. There is often 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 Workplace Wellness Plan employer plan is essential in these times of shrinking budgets and resources. A good employer plan will help you gain leadership support and help you get and keep resources needed to start the Employee Wellness Program.