Company Health and Wellness Program Data
What is Company Health and Wellness Program data?
Company Health and Wellness Program data is information that is collected about your Employee Wellness Program. All Employee Wellness Plans should include data as an integral part of the Company Health and Wellness Program plan.
Why should you care about Company Health and Wellness Program data?
Information tells the Wellness story. Information is the tangible proof of a Wellness Program’s impact.
Building data into Employee Wellness Plans
Why bother with Company Health and Wellness Program Data?
You need Company Health and Wellness Program data to:
• Assess whether or not your Company Health and Wellness Program is working.
• Answer the ‘so what?’ about the need for a Employee Wellness Program.
• Provide information to Senior Management about the impact of the Employee Wellness Program.
• Write a budget justification so you can secure Company Health and Wellness Program resources.
• Use Company Health and Wellness Program resources efficiently and market your Company Health and Wellness Program more effectively.
Where to start collecting Company Health and Wellness Program 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 For 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 For example: BMI, APFT scores (before & after), tobacco quit rates
IT’S NEVER TO LATE TO START collecting Company Health and Wellness Program data.
Innovative Company Health and Wellness Program data strategies
• Use local college/graduate students to help collect, input, and analyze Company Health and Wellness Program data.
• If your company has an internship program, get to know the Internship Director. Take advantage of intern resources – including having the Director and/or interns start the data collection plan for your Employee Wellness Program.
• Use data to let senior management know about the Employee Wellness Plans affect on the staff members.
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 Company Health and Wellness Program participants.
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 Company Health and Wellness Program to readiness.