Wellness Plans : Health Promotion Programs and Exercise With Co-workers.

• Organize a launch event to develop excitement about upcoming activities and to develop a social climate that establishes being active as the norm.

• Organize and promote monthly or bi-monthly corporation events that are fun and active, e.g., picnics with physical games, staff tournaments and dragon boat racing.

Make sure to encourage families to join in by including all-ages events like relay races, soccer matches, bocce ball and baseball games.

• Start a swim club at a local pool. Invite groups of workforce to swim the distance of a nearby lake. Convert kilometres to lengths and reward workforce who complete the swim.

Make sure to set up a challenge between staff and managers to see who covers the greatest distance.

• Post a sign-up board where staff can enroll in a group or find a buddy to take part in activities of interest.

• Arrange a company badminton tournament that lasts several months, with each staff member playing once a week. Post the results as the tournament progresses.

• Organize an office Olympics, World Cup, Wimbledon or Masters Games. Invite teams to compete in a few activities over a month. Reward everyone who participates.

• Develop a point system in which one minute of activity is equivalent to one point. Make sure to set a target, and post a chart where all personnel can track their points. Reward the first group to reach that target.

• Co-ordinate a stair climb challenge. Post a chart at the top of the stairwell, and encourage employees to track the number of flights of stairs they climb each workday.

Make certain to set up teams, and award a prize to the first team to climb the equivalent of Mount Everest.

• Post and promote a sign-up board for lunchtime walking groups.

• Organize a walk “across the USA ” Choose a route, figure out how many steps it would take to walk that distance and challenge workforce to do it.

Give or loan pedometers to staff, and ask them to record the number of steps they take. Or, when you can’t afford pedometers, track the minutes walked. Make certain to set up a challenge between staff and managers to see who can walk across the USA  first.

• Co-ordinate a walk to work club. Acknowledge employees who either walk to work or walk to public transit.

• Have a volunteer group leader guide weekly lunchtime power walks.

• Coordinate a million-step challenge. Form groups, challenge each group to walk a combined sum of a million steps and reward the winner. Departments or sites could compete with each other and with management.

• Challenge workforce to walk 10,000 steps a day. Buy pedometers for all participating workforce or, if you can’t afford that, make pedometers available at a decreased rate.

Give tips for increasing daily steps, and reward workers who succeed.