What is Corporate Health and Wellness Program data?
Corporate Health and Wellness Program data is information that is collected about your Corporate Health and Wellness Program. All Corporate Health and Wellness Programs should include data as an integral part of the Corporate Health and Wellness Program plan.
Why should you care about Corporate Health and Wellness Program data?
Information tells the Wellness story. Information is the tangible evidence of a Wellness Program’s impact.
Building data into Corporate Health and Wellness Programs
Why bother with Corporate Health and Wellness Program Data?
You need Corporate Health and Wellness Program data to:
• Assess whether or not your Corporate Health and Wellness Program is working.
• Answer the ‘so what?’ about the need for a Corporate Health and Wellness Program.
• Offer information to Upper Management about the impact of the Corporate Health and Wellness Program.
• Write a budget justification so you can secure Corporate Health and Wellness Program resources.
• Use Corporate Health and Wellness Program resources efficiently and market your Corporate Health and Wellness Program more effectively.
• Where to start collecting Corporate Health and Wellness Program data:
• MAKE A PLAN to collect the data: decide what, when, and how information will be collected.
• Determine what information is ALREADY BEING COLLECTED.
• For example: use dairy sales information in the dining facility to measure the impact of a milk marketing/dairy month campaign.
• Begin collecting JUST A FEW small pieces of information. Be innovative!
• For example: BMI, APFT scores (before & after), tobacco quit rates
IT’S NEVER TO LATE TO START collecting Corporate Health and Wellness Program data.
Innovative Corporate Health and Wellness Program data strategies
• Use local college/graduate students to help collect, input, and analyze Corporate Health and Wellness Program information.
• If your business has an internship program, get to know the Internship Director. Take advantage of intern resources – including having the Director and/or interns implement the data collection plan for your Corporate Health and Wellness Program.
• Use information to let senior management know about the Corporate Health and Wellness Programs affect on the staff members.
• Present this information at their monthly/quarterly meetings.
• Use innovative follow-up strategies to get information. Phone calls can be effective, but also consider email, mailed surveys with return postage provided, and going to the units in person to collect the information.
• Make data collection ‘fun’ for Corporate Health and Wellness Program participants.
• For example: use a team approach – the team with the ‘best’ overall results gets some sort of award or recognition.
• ALWAYS relate the impact of your Corporate Health and Wellness Program to readiness.
