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