Increasing Employee Participation

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Increasing Employee Participation

• Tools Referenced in this Presentation are
  available in the Worksite Wellness Toolkit
• www.shpnc.org/worksite-wellness.html

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Develop a Communication Plan

• What are the best ways to
• Send out information to employees?
• Gather information from employees?
• Advertise programs to employees?
• Tool Sample Committee Announcement Poster
• Toolkit Committee Workbook
• - Appendix O, Pg 57

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Develop a Communication Plan

• Ask someone in Human Resources for guidance in
  the plan development
• Appendix Q in the Toolkit has ideas for
  distributing the Employee Interest Survey that
  could be incorporated in to your plan
• Ask employees how they like to receive
  information

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Employee Interest Survey

• Survey your employees to find out what they are
  most interested in BEFORE you plan your wellness
  programs and activities.
• Tool Sample Employee Interest Survey
• Toolkit Committee Workbook
• Appendix I, Pg 46
• Available for download at the Toolkit site
  www.shpnc.org/worksite-wellness.html

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Employee Interest Survey
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Develop Brand Identity

• Create a personalized logo and name for your
  wellness committee that employees can identify
• Use your logo and name on all your advertising
  and communications with employees

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Examples Brand Identity
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Examples Committee Names

• Department of Agriculture Committee On Wellness
  (COW)
• Department of Transportation, Raleigh Highway
  to Health
• Department of Administration Working On
  Wellness (WOW)
• Department of Commerce Commerce Wellness/Its
  Time
• Psychology Board Psyched on Wellness
• State Health Plan Plan 4 Wellness
• State Highway Patrol Active for Duty
• Carteret CC Health, Exercise Living
  (H.E.A.L.)
• Central Piedmont CC Be Well
• Catawba Valley CC CVCC Health Connections
• Craven CC HealthSmart Keys to Wellness
• Piedmont CC PCC Wellness at Work
• East Carolina University ACT-WEL (Advisory
  Council Team for Wellness Education Leadership)

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Advertise your Program

• Post announcements and sign up sheets at several
  high traffic locations
• Give employees dates and times for upcoming
  events well in advance
• Communicate regularly before and during the event
  with updates and reminders through email, staff
  meetings, etc
• Use word of mouth publicity throughout program
  implementation
• Wellness program suggestions in the Toolkit
  include sample announcement posters use these
  or create your own!

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Advertise your Program
HealthStart Activities come with ready-made
announcement posters. Find HealthStart
activities in each of the four resource workbooks
at www.shpnc.org/worksite-wellness.html.
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Management Support

• Employees are more likely to participate if they
  are aware of the support from management.
• Management participation in wellness programs and
  activities can greatly boost employee morale and
  participation.

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Offer Incentives

• Incentives can range from tokens (such as
  coffee mugs, water bottles, t-shirts) to bigger
  rewards (such as gift certificates, bikes etc.)
• Discuss with your management if there are funds
  available for getting incentives for your
  programs
• Incentives should be offered for participation,
  motivation and completion of programs consider
  carefully how to use incentives fairly for actual
  behavior changes
• Think about free incentives for your programs
  certificates of achievement, recognition in staff
  meetings or employee newsletters

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Offer Incentives

• More guidance on supporting employee
  participation in wellness activities by offering
  incentives is provided in the NC Office of State
  Personnels worksite wellness policy (under
  Policy Guidelines, Section II).
• This Policy is available online at
• www.osp.state.nc.us/manuals/manual99/Worksite20We
  llness20Policy.pdf

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What Could You Offer?

• Small, individual incentives great for kick-off
  events
• Pedometers, key chains, water bottles, healthy
  snacks, coupons for healthy foods
• Larger incentives work well for
  competitions/raffles
• Gift certificates, massages, exercise equipment
• Workplace incentives think recognition and
  praise
• Buttons, newsletter or meeting mention,
  certificates, bulletin board notices
• Ask your local merchants for freebies!
• Check with management first.

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Examples - Incentives

• Southwestern Community College Virtual Plaque
  for walking trail
• www.southwest.cc.nc.us/info/walking-trail/virtual-
  plaque.html
• Central Piedmont Community College
• Walking Hall of Fame
• www1.cpcc.edu/bewell/Walking
• Dept of Cultural Resources
• water bottles drawing for several prizes
• at the Walking Map Kick-off
• http//web.dcr.state.nc.us/Documents/HumanReources
  /WalkingMap.pdf