A well-implemented employee wellness program is built on populations needs and wants, often through detailed workplace wellness cultural surveys and analysis. Once wellness events, education programs, and challenges are underway, employee engagement is crucial to a successful corporate wellbeing initiative.

Analyzing employee wellness program engagement

Accurate measurement of wellbeing engagement levels within a workforce is the key to making midstream adjustments to programming, messaging, and channels. Pulse surveys provide employers with quickly accessible data that can highlight engagement issues without waiting for larger annual survey results.

Here are 5 basic questions to include on a pulse survey to measure employee wellness program engagement. Customize them to your program, its goals, and your employee population, where applicable. Remember to keep a pulse survey simple and short. It should take 10 minutes or less to complete.

Question 1: Have you heard about our company’s wellness initiative? 

This may seem too simple, but it’s important to understand who hasn’t heard of the corporate wellness program within the context of engagement numbers. It’s also a good idea to start surveys with a very simple question. Follow up by asking where they heard about the program so you have a complete picture of how employees are introduced to wellness options.

Question 2: Which types of company wellness offerings most appeal to you?

This question needs multiple-choice options that will be determined by the structure of your company’s employee wellness program. If it’s applicable, include both in-person and virtual events, independent and group/departmental challenges, and webinars and self-paced educational materials. 

Question 3: What wellness events or educational seminars have you attended in the past 6 months?

Obviously, if you don’t have online wellness options and employees have been largely remote, this question won’t apply. Provide multiple-choice options if possible.

Question 4: What wellness events or educational seminars will you attend in the next 6 months?

This question also works best as a multiple-choice question that gives employees another opportunity to learn what programs and events are on the company calendar.

Question 5: How can we improve our company wellness program to better suit your needs?

Asking open-ended questions at the end of the survey allows respondents to engage and provide candid input. For an engagement survey, that can lead to higher response numbers and more applicable data.

Compile survey responses and adjust

Employee wellness needs and interests are not static, and wellness programs need to respond accordingly. Aquila has been providing consulting, implementation, and management of corporate wellness programs for private and public-sector clients for more than 25 years. In that time, our experts have learned how to maximize employee engagement, leading to improved workplace health outcomes and increased employee job satisfaction. Contact us today to learn how Aquila can help your organization develop a corporate wellness program that produces measurable results.