Employee Wellness Plans : Corporate Wellness Program: Incentive Seletion

Incentives promote workers 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 Corporate Health Promotion Program, or help people change or adhere to healthy behaviors. Providing incentives/rewards and rewards will send an important message to the workers that your company is committed to supporting them with bettering their health. It also plays a important role in motivating people to take part.

Tips on how to choose appropriate rewards and incentives:

• Determine through an employee survey what incentives and rewards they value.
• Identify what incentives/rewards the organization can offer as well as what the budget will allow.
• Be sure that every participant 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 reward your Workplace Health Promotion Program, through logos and branding.