Seminars & Webinars

Hosting an on-site seminar or on-line webinar should play a vital role in your small biz wellness planning. Providing your employees the opportunity to interact with health & fitness specialists in the comfort of their office or home, informal settings while discussing areas of health & wellness that are important to them.

Your seminars or webinars should educate and empower your employees to take better care of their health, start a habit, or become a better healthcare-consumer. Not only does this shows your concern for the well-being of your employees, but it can help your small business to positively focus on things such as health care costs, absenteeism, and productivity.

Small Biz Action Steps

• First, find out what concerns or interests your employees by conducting an employee wellness survey.  This can help you determine what topics would be of most interest to your employees. Download a sample survey from our Related Wellness Resources section below.
  
• Next, determine the best time of day for health education seminars. Consider offering it at multiple times. For traditional work schedules, the lunch hour is often a 
popular time. However for employees with shift work, you might want to offer it different times throughout each shift. In addition, you may want to videotape the presentation and make it available for those who were not able to attend.

• Select the length of the presentation. A lunch-time presentation most commonly last 30 minutes and up to one hour, but can vary according your environment.

• Once a topic has been selected, contact local a wellness organization that can provide speakers on the topic. Specify the date (s) and time(s).

• Promote your presentations through promotional material, such as e-mail, flyers, and meeting announcements.

• Consider encouraging employees to pre-register if materials are needed.

• Offering incentives, such as small door prize often will increase participation.

• Finally, have employees complete an evaluation or request that the presenter provide you with an evaluation that can be given out to attendees.

Related Wellness Resources

• Employee interest survey - Conduct an employee interest survey to collect information on the topics that would be of most interest to staff and to determine the best time of day for health education seminars.

• Wellness Program & Event Promotion Materials – Promote the seminars through all marketing media available such as e-mail, flyers, and meeting announcements.

  Sample One

  Sample Two
  

• Wellness Program Incentives - One of the ways you can boost participation among your employees is by offering incentives that rewards them for improving their health or by simply taking part in these programs.

• Schedule an on-site seminar or webinar – Once a topic has been selected, contact a Wellness Professional from our network of local and regional wellness professionals that can provide you with a presentation of your choice.

• Employee evaluation of a worksite activity or program – Develop an evaluation or request that the presenter provide you with an 
evaluation that can be given out to attendees.

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You CAN control healthcare costs for you and your employees with practical and affordable wellness tools and strategies that will ultimately help them create a lifetime of healthy habits. For more information on any our small business wellness programs or services, Contact Us today and find out we can help.