Health Handouts : Incentives can be used to expand participation rates, help with completion or attendance at programs, and to help people modify or adhere to healthy behaviors. The purpose of the incentive is to encourage staff members to adopt positive behaviors or maintain an existing positive behavior. Everyone who achieves a objective or maintains a behavior must receive something. Many employers also support incentives and rewards merely for participating in events.

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Stay away from being the “best” or doing the “most.” Encouraging staff members to be the best or doing the most promotes excessive behavior, discourages others, and creates elitism. The best designed incentive programs are ones which are based on achieving objectives and goals that are attainable by most people. Recognition, acknowledgment by top management, or special privileges are examples of excellent intangible incentives and rewards.

Incentive ideas:

• Free or Low-Cost:
   o Certificates
   o Movie passes
   o Recognition in employee newsletter
   o Mugs
   o Water bottles
   o Commendation from management
   o T-shirts
   o Hats

• Moderate Cost:
   o Entertainment tickets
   o Sweatshirts
   o Waist packs
   o Subscriptions to health magazines
   o Health and fitness books
   o Videos

• High Cost:
   o Week-end getaways
   o Dinner for two
   o Clocks
   o Watches

• Others:
   o Cash
   o Gift certificates

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