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?

Data tells the Wellness story. Data is the tangible proof 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:
• Assess 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 begin collecting Corporate Health Promotion Program 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 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 innovative!
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 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 implement the data collection plan for your Corporate Health Promotion Program.
• Use data to let senior management know about the Corporate Health Promotion Programs affect on the employees.

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 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 Corporate Health Promotion Program to readiness.