How to Write Workplace Wellness Program Goals and Objectives

Why have Workplace Wellness Program goals? 

Workplace Wellness Program goals take your business’s priorities for employee health improvement and make them specific and measurable. Well-defined Workplace Wellness Program goals provide direction for determining Procedures and a basis for which to measure progress. 

Writing Workplace Wellness Program goals 

Writing Workplace Wellness Program goals is not complicated or difficult. It does require some thought, about your business’s Workplace Wellness Program vision for a culture of health and they should be:     

 

      Specific Workplace Wellness Program Goals

      Measurable Workplace Wellness Program Goals

      Attainable Workplace Wellness Program Goals

      Realistic Workplace Wellness Program Goals

      Timely Workplace Wellness Program Goals 

Specific Workplace Wellness Program Goals: What is the specific outcome your business is looking for? “Reduce tobacco use among workers” is more specific than “Improve the health of workers.” You may wish to write some goals about specific outcomes (reducing smoking among workers) and other goals about specific progress (implementing a tobacco-free campus policy or decreasing the price of fresh fruit in the cafeteria to 25 cents a piece). 

Measurable Workplace Wellness Program Goals: Making your goals measurable provides a means of evaluating your progress and success. There is an adage: “what gets measured, gets done.” Measurable goals can be effective motivators for your business. “Provide more time for workers to be physically active” is much less measurable than “implement a daily 15-minute walking break into the schedule of all workers.” “Increase the number of workers who want to quit smoking” is less measurable than “increase enrollments in the stop-using tobacco program to 120 workers per year.” 

Attainable Workplace Wellness Program Goals: Determine goals that challenge your business to change and that will demonstrate a real commitment to the health of the employees. At the same time, set goals that are achievable. Goals that are set too far out of reach can be overwhelming and may become a barrier rather than a motivator. 

Realistic Workplace Wellness Program Goals: Write goals that are do-able, given the skills, time, finances and overall strategy of the business. A realistic project may push the skills and knowledge of the people working on it but it shouldn’t break them. 

Timely Workplace Wellness Program Goals: When do you hope to achieve the goal? Next week? Next year? Without a timeframe, the goal is still not clear and is much less likely to galvanize resources and energy within your business. 

“Reduce the percent of workers who use tobacco from 20 percent to 10 percent” is much less of a challenge than “By the end of 2010, reduce the percent of workers who use tobacco from 20 percent to 15 percent”.