Corporate Health and Wellness Initiative Data

What is Corporate Health and Wellness Initiative data?

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

Why should you care about Corporate Health and Wellness Initiative data?

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

Building data into Workplace Wellness Programs

Why bother with Corporate Health and Wellness Initiative Data?

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

Where to begin collecting Corporate Health and Wellness Initiative data:
• MAKE A PLAN to collect the data: decide what, when, and how information will be collected.
• Find out 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 innovative!
o For example: BMI, APFT scores (before & after), tobacco quit rates

IT’S NEVER TO LATE TO START collecting Corporate Health and Wellness Initiative data.

Innovative Corporate Health and Wellness Initiative data strategies
• Use local college/graduate students to help collect, input, and analyze Corporate Health and Wellness Initiative information.
• 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 Workplace Wellness Program.
• Use information to let upper management know about the Workplace Wellness Programs affect on the workers.

Present this information at their monthly/quarterly meetings.
• Use innovative follow-up strategies to get information. 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 Health and Wellness Initiative 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 Corporate Health and Wellness Initiative to readiness.