How to Write Company Health and Wellness Program Goals and Objectives

Why have Company Health and Wellness Program objectives?

Company Health and Wellness Program objectives take your employer’s priorities for employee health  improvement and make them specific and measurable. Well-defined Company Health and Wellness Program  objectives provide direction for determining Strategies and a basis for which to measure progress.

Writing Company Health and Wellness Program objectives

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

Specific Company Health and Wellness Program Goals
Measurable Company Health and Wellness Program Goals
Attainable Company Health and Wellness Program Goals
Realistic Company Health and Wellness Program Goals
Timely Company Health and Wellness Program Goals

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

Measurable Company Health and Wellness Program Goals: Making your objectives measurable provides a  means of evaluating your progress and success. There is an adage: “what gets measured, gets done.”  Measurable objectives can be powerful motivators for your employer. “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-smoking program to 120 workers per year.”

Attainable Company Health and Wellness Program Goals: Determine objectives that challenge your employer  to change and that will demonstrate a real commitment to employee health. At the same time, set  objectives 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 Company Health and Wellness Program Goals: Write objectives that are do-able, given the  skills, time, finances and overall strategy of the employer. A realistic project may push the skills  and knowledge of the people working on it but it shouldn’t break them.

Timely Company Health and Wellness Program Goals: When do you hope to achieve the goal? Next week? Next  year? Without a timeframe, the goal is still vague and is much less likely to galvanize resources and  energy within your employer.

“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”.