Workplace Health & Wellness Fairs: Information Booths - Ideas and Tips

Associations & Not-for-Profits · Businesses

A successful wellness fair has a mix of community organizations and businesses. They feature broad category information as well as niche information and tools targeted to smaller demographic groups within the workplace (e.g. parents, older workers, ethnic groups).

Selecting your information stations the your wellness fair will depend on the lifestyles of the employees that are participating. You can use the following list in comprising your short survey and in building your program for the day once you have assessed the reuslts.

Associations & Not-for-Profits

Here is a list of organizations who will provide information (pamphlets, brochures) and often personnel to discuss their topics:

Businesses

Getting businesses to participate is a matter of identifying what the benefit will be to them - whether that is credit in the form of promotion at and before the event or they are able to sell product or services on-site. After all, it is a day spent away from their core business, and you want it to be a win-win situation.

In some cases, it might be prudent to have your company pay for a day's worth of services rather than pass the cost along to the employees. This is advisable in cases like health screening services or on-site massage therapy. Another option is to bring students of local wellness schools in to help in trade for co-op credits or work experience hours.

Ideas for Business Booths:

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