When Wellness Programs Fall Short

How to Ruin an Employee Wellness Program:
Lesson 1 -- Don't do anything spectacular
Lesson 2 -- Make your employees feel less than human

Lesson 3...

Well what am I talking about?

Just what we don't need, a wellness program that does more lecturing than inspiring. There are many programs that have good intentions but they don't do much more than a sidewalk health fair that gives out free pens and takes a quick blood sugar test or blood pressure. It doesn't motivate the employees to grow as a team trying to promote their best human potential.

Do you want to be slapped on the wrist for being overweight? Do you want to feel like a failure when you aren't walking around the block on your lunch hour? Do you feel worse than when you go to your general practitioner?

Below is an interesting blog post I found about this topic. An enthusiastic worker wanted to make improvements in her health, but ended up feeling rejected. You can also check out the 5 tips for saving your employees.

Here is her story:

I signed up for the wellness program because I am incredibly interested in wellness and wished to participate in my ongoing journey to health and self acceptance through a wellness program. I appreciate that (company name) offers it and I believed it to be an opportunity to see (from a participant point of view) what (company name)is all about.

I understood that the wellness program was dependent on setting and ‘checking in’ on self created goals. I was excited to couple a health educator’s knowledge with the ongoing journey that I have been on.
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