Corporate Health Promotion Plan Data

What is Corporate Health Promotion Plan data?

Corporate Health Promotion Plan data is information that is collected about your Corporate Wellness Program. All Corporate Wellness Programs should include data as an integral part of the Corporate Health Promotion Plan plan.

Why should you care about Corporate Health Promotion Plan data?

Data tells the Wellness story. Data is the tangible evidence of a Wellness Program’s impact.

Building data into Corporate Wellness Programs

Why bother with Corporate Health Promotion Plan Data?

You need Corporate Health Promotion Plan data to:
• Evaluate whether or not your Corporate Health Promotion Plan is working.
• Answer the ‘so what?’ about the need for a Corporate Wellness Program.
• Provide information to Upper Management about the impact of the Corporate Wellness Program.
• Write a budget justification so you can secure Corporate Health Promotion Plan resources.
• Use Corporate Health Promotion Plan resources efficiently and market your Corporate Health Promotion Plan more effectively.

Where to begin collecting Corporate Health Promotion Plan data:
• MAKE A PLAN to collect the data: decide what, when, and how data will be collected.
• Find out what data is ALREADY BEING COLLECTED.
o By way of example: use dairy sales data in the dining center 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 Corporate Health Promotion Plan data.

Innovative Corporate Health Promotion Plan data strategies
• Use local college/graduate students to help collect, input, and analyze Corporate Health Promotion Plan data.
• If your organization 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 Wellness Program.
• Use data to let upper management know about the Corporate Wellness Programs affect on the staff members.

Present this information at their monthly/quarterly meetings.
• Use innovative follow-up strategies to get data. 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 Promotion Plan members.
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 Corporate Health Promotion Plan to readiness.