Posted by Company Wellness | Posted in Company Wellness | Posted on 28-11-2008
What is Company Wellness Program data?
Company Wellness Program data is information that is collected about your Corporate Health Promotion Program. All Corporate Health Promotion Programs should include data as an integral part of the Company Wellness Program plan.
Why should you care about Company Wellness Program data?
Information tells the Wellness story. Information is the tangible proof of a Wellness Program’s impact.
Building data into Corporate Health Promotion Programs
Why bother with Company Wellness Program Data?
You need Company Wellness Program data to:
• Assess whether or not your Company Wellness Program is working.
• Answer the ‘so what?’ about the need for a Corporate Health Promotion Program.
• Provide information to Upper Management about the impact of the Corporate Health Promotion Program.
• Write a budget justification so you can secure Company Wellness Program resources.
• Use Company Wellness Program resources efficiently and market your Company Wellness Program more effectively.
Where to begin collecting Company Wellness Program data:
• MAKE A PLAN to collect the data: decide what, when, and how data will be collected.
• Determine what data is ALREADY BEING COLLECTED.
o By way of example: use dairy sales data in the dining facility to measure the impact of a milk marketing/dairy month campaign.
• Start collecting JUST A FEW small pieces of information. Be innovative!
o By way of example: BMI, APFT scores (before & after), tobacco quit rates
IT’S NEVER TO LATE TO START collecting Company Wellness Program data.
Innovative Company Wellness Program data strategies
• Use local college/graduate students to help collect, input, and analyze Company Wellness Program data.
• If your corporation has an internship program, get to know the Internship Director. Make use of intern resources – including having the Director and/or interns start the data collection plan for your Corporate Health Promotion Program.
• Use data to let upper management know about the Corporate Health Promotion Programs affect on the workers.
Present this information at their monthly/quarterly meetings.
• Use innovative follow-up strategies to get data. Telephone 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 Company Wellness Program participants.
o By way of 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 Company Wellness Program to readiness.