If we’re being honest, wellness—and life—can get pretty complicated. The concept is pretty simple, but with the connectedness of our world today, it can quickly spiral out of control.
Wellness portals have emerged as an excellent tool for tracking progress and managing incentives. Now that we have easy-to-use fitness trackers and smartphone apps, though, almost everything can be recorded.
We can gather real-time health information with little to no effort, which means you can tap into all of that information as you plan your wellness program. It’s so easy to build in every possible metric to your program.
But should you?
We think not. Sometimes simplifying your corporate wellness program is the best way to go. By cutting out some of the fluff you can improve employee engagement, more easily manage your program and get to the core of what your employees truly want from wellness.
Now just because you’re trying to simplify doesn’t mean you have to make the program monotonous. It’s still important to allow opportunities for personalization and customization, so your employees feel valued and see the benefits.
To rein things in just a little bit, check out these three reminders.
Don’t Overwhelm Employees with Options
Unfortunately, there’s a fine line between too many and too few in this case. You want to provide enough options for activities and incentive packages that the program will appeal to everyone. If you provide too many options, though, you run the risk of confusing people which will turn them off to the program before they even know what it’s all about.
Get Feedback to Narrow Things Down
Employee feedback is incredibly important (have we said that before?). If you seek out your employees’ opinions, and take what they have to say into consideration, you’ll automatically be sent in a specific direction. Not only that, but you know it’s the right direction because your employees were leading the way. Try to quantify your employees' feelings towards certain wellness initiatives, and focus on the ones that seem to have the most support.
Pick and Stick
Pick a few wellness activities, and stick with them. It’s as simple as that. This will help you avoid spreading yourself too thin. Based on your employee feedback, pick the initiatives you think will do the best for your corporate wellness program. Once you’ve made your choices, stick with those few and put your efforts into specific, focused wellness promotion. That way you’ll have a few really good initiatives rather than a ton of mediocre ones.
So take a step back and really analyze your corporate wellness program. Are things a bit hectic? Are a lot of people confused? Maybe it’s time to do a little wellness simplification.
How do you handle complexity in your wellness program?
