Corporate Health Promotion Program Data
What is Corporate Health Promotion Program data?
Corporate Health Promotion 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 Corporate Health Promotion Program plan.
Why should you care about Corporate Health Promotion Program data?
Information tells the Wellness story. Information is the tangible evidence of a Wellness Program’s impact.
Building data into Corporate Health Promotion Programs
Why bother with Corporate Health Promotion Program Data?
You need Corporate Health Promotion Program data to:
• Evaluate whether or not your Corporate Health Promotion Program is working.
• Answer the ‘so what?’ about the need for a Corporate Health Promotion Program.
• Offer information to Upper Management about the impact of the Corporate Health Promotion Program.
• Write a budget justification so you can secure Corporate Health Promotion Program resources.
• Use Corporate Health Promotion Program resources efficiently and market your Corporate Health Promotion Program more effectively.
Where to start collecting Corporate Health Promotion 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.
o 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 creative!
o For example: BMI, APFT scores (before & after), tobacco quit rates
IT’S NEVER TO LATE TO START collecting Corporate Health Promotion Program data.
Innovative Corporate Health Promotion Program data strategies
• Use local college/graduate students to help collect, input, and analyze Corporate Health Promotion Program information.
• If your business has an internship program, get to know the Internship Director. Make use of intern resources – including having the Director and/or interns implement the data collection plan for your Corporate Health Promotion Program.
• Use information to let upper management know about the Corporate Health Promotion Programs affect on the workers.
Present this information at their monthly/quarterly meetings.
• Use creative 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 Promotion Program members.
o 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 Promotion Program to readiness.