Develop your Workplace Wellness Plan
The following key actions are recommended for this step:
- Develop detailed plans that support the goals you’ve established and provide opportunities for employee learning and development within your organization. Involve your stakeholders, specifically management and your workplace wellness champions, in the decision-making and preparation of your plans.
- Determine the tools and resources required to support each wellness activity or program you are planning. Consider for example, the strengths and assets already identified; how well your policies support wellness, financial investments as well as the time and effort of the people involved.
- Determine some key strategies to involve employees and to facilitate the changes to the way your organization works as you anchor your new workplace wellness approach as an essential part of your organization
- Develop a plan for your workplace wellness communications that includes early, frequent and different methods of communicating with management and employees to help maintain engagement in and commitment to workplace wellness.
- Develop or identify ways to keep track of and evaluate your activities based on the measures of success that were established in the Baseline Data step
Find more information, tools and resources to help you below:
- Workplace Wellness – A Roadmap for your Journey (presentation)
Created by the Workplace Wellness Movement
- Workplace Health and Wellness- Getting Started
By the Canadian Center for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS)
- Healthy Workplace – Template (includes information on designing your plan)
By the University of Alberta
- Putting Health on the Agenda – A Model Policy for Healthy Meetings and Events
Published by The Council of Atlantic Premiers
- Creating a Culture of Health in your Organization By Don Hall, DrPH, CHES
Published by Wellsource
- Human Resource Strategies for Employers – Better Balance, Better Business
Published by the Alberta Learning Information Service
- Assembling the Pieces: An Implementation Guide to the National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace
By the Canadian Standards Association and the Mental Health Commission of Canada
- Healthy Workplaces Journey to Excellence: The Complete Guide
By Workplace Safety and Prevention Services – Ontario
Workplace Wellness Case Studies by the Conference Board of Canada
- Wellness Metrics in Action – CMP Advanced Mechanical: Low Cost, High Return
- Wellness Metrics in Action – Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ): Promoting Health
- Wellness Metrics in Action – Telus: A Culture of Health and Wellness
- Wellness Metrics in Action – Lakeside Process Controls: Increasing Employee Engagement