Employee Wellness Program: Creating a Healthy & Productive Workplace

Program overview:

Employee Wellness provides valuable insight into how effective leadership can lead to greater success in promoting healthier, happier, and more productive workplaces. It outlines the fundamental principles for driving progress and improving employee health, well-being, retention, and performance. Employee Wellness program will address issues concerning employees’ overall well-being and aids participants in establishing an improved work atmosphere.

This course will assist participants learn the techniques to lower healthcare costs while also supporting the employees’ health and well-being at work. They will Integrate wellness into corporate settings and build a healthier, more engaged, and more productive workforce by creating a healthy work environment, that will strengthen collaborative spirit and improve productivity.

For whom:

Employees at all levels within an organization. Individuals across various industries including construction, oil and gas, government, ICT, health and hospitality will benefit from this program.

Learning objectives:

At the end of this program, participants will be able to:

• recognise the importance of focusing on workplace wellness to reduce health issues and the effects they have on the workplace;
• use various techniques to improve your mental and physical health;
• increase employee engagement, enthusiasm, and job satisfaction;
• recognise the importance of achieving a healthy work-life balance;
• increase the productivity, performance, and overall success of a company; and
• communicate effectively to encourage positive behavioural changes.

Course outline:

Day 1

Module1: Fundamentals of Corporate Wellness

• Employee Wellness: Overview
• History of Wellness
• The Six Dimensions of Wellness
• Introduction to Workplace Wellness
• Importance of Corporate Wellness
• Understanding Stress and Anxiety in a Workplace
• What is Employee Burnout?
• Building Active Environments to Promote Wellness in the Workplace

Module 2: Needs Assessment and Program Planning

• Assessing Workplace Needs to Build “Wellness”
• A Workforce Demographic Analysis

Module 3: Employee Engagement

• Common Causes of Low Engagement
• Employee Engagement Initiatives
• Coaching Tools for Employee Engagement

Day 2

Module 4: Work-Life Balance

• Importance of Work-Life Balance
• Tips for Achieving Work-Life Balance
• Strategies for Promoting Work-Life

Balance in the Workplace

Module 5: Mental Health and Substance

Use Disorders

• Substance Use in the Workplace
• What is Substance Use Disorder?
• Types of Commonly Used Substances, and

their Effect on Workplace

• Mental Health in the Workplace
• Promoting a Safe and Healthy Workplace

Module 6: Implementation and Evaluation of

Workplace Wellness Programs

• Steps and Recommendations to Implement

an Effective Workplace Wellness Program

• Different Frameworks for the Evaluation of

Workplace Wellness and Promotion Programs 

• Measuring the ROI of Corporate Wellness Programs
• Using Data to Improve Corporate Wellness Programs

Training Methodology

• Lectures, discussions, exercises, case studies, audio-visual aids will be used to reinforce these teachings/learning methods.