{"id":15113,"date":"2013-06-13T02:40:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T02:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wellable.co\/blog\/dont-forget-to-ask-your-employees\/"},"modified":"2022-10-20T21:50:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T01:50:51","slug":"dont-forget-to-ask-your-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellable.co\/blog\/dont-forget-to-ask-your-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Effective Corporate Wellness Program Design &#8211; Don\u2019t Forget To Ask Your Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most important, but often overlooked ways to drive engagement happens well before the launch date of a wellness program.<\/p>\n<p>I stumbled upon a slightly dated, yet still relevant article titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2009\/may\/22\/when-it-comes-wellness-ask-employees-what-they-wan\/#axzz2YaHAh2tT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">When it comes to wellness, ask employees what they want<\/a>.\u201d This article is a reminder of a crucial step in building an effective corporate wellness program.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/resources.wellable.co\/template\/employee-wellness-interest-survey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ask employees<\/a>. Asking for employee input may seem like an obvious first step, but you would be surprised by the number of employers who have not solicited any input or feedback from their employees.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wellable.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1395768_53176196.jpg\" alt=\"1395768_53176196\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/p>\n<p>Employee feedback during the early stages of designing a wellness program will not only help zero-in on the wellness needs of an organization, it will help employees feel part of the process. Employees that feel part of the process will be more likely to participate in the program once launched.<\/p>\n<p>Employee feedback can go beyond administering a survey. Some clients have created wellness working groups and enlisted employees from throughout the organization to help select and build a wellness program.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of how you decide to solicit employee input, make sure it is a priority from the start. For help on how to best to engage employees in the wellness selection process <a title=\"info@wellable.co\" href=\"mailto:info@wellable.co\">send us an email<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t Forget To Ask Your Employees, how to create effective corporate wellness program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holistic-workplace-wellness"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.6 (Yoast SEO v24.8.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Effective Corporate Wellness Program Design - Don\u2019t Forget To Ask Your Employees | Wellable<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Don\u2019t Forget To Ask Your Employees, how to create effective corporate wellness program\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wellable.co\/blog\/dont-forget-to-ask-your-employees\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Effective Corporate Wellness Program Design - Don\u2019t Forget To Ask Your Employees | Wellable\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Don\u2019t Forget To Ask Your Employees, how to create effective corporate wellness program\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.wellable.co\/blog\/dont-forget-to-ask-your-employees\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Wellable\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GetWellable\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-06-13T02:40:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-10-21T01:50:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.wellable.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1395768_53176196-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1707\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Wellable\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@getwellable\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@getwellable\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Wellable\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Effective Corporate Wellness Program Design - Don\u2019t Forget To Ask Your Employees | Wellable","description":"Don\u2019t Forget To Ask Your Employees, how to create effective corporate wellness program","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.wellable.co\/blog\/dont-forget-to-ask-your-employees\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Effective Corporate Wellness Program Design - Don\u2019t Forget To Ask Your Employees | Wellable","og_description":"Don\u2019t Forget To Ask Your Employees, how to create effective corporate wellness program","og_url":"https:\/\/www.wellable.co\/blog\/dont-forget-to-ask-your-employees\/","og_site_name":"Wellable","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GetWellable\/","article_published_time":"2013-06-13T02:40:54+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-10-21T01:50:51+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2560,"height":1707,"url":"https:\/\/www.wellable.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1395768_53176196-scaled.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Wellable","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@getwellable","twitter_site":"@getwellable","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Wellable","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.wellable.co\/blog\/dont-forget-to-ask-your-employees\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.wellable.co\/blog\/dont-forget-to-ask-your-employees\/"},"author":{"name":"Wellable","@id":"https:\/\/www.wellable.co\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f7c042b5403e555f4cd545a365023e71"},"headline":"Effective Corporate Wellness Program Design &#8211; 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