Wellness Assessments

What is Workplace Wellness Program data? 

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

Why should you care about Workplace Wellness Program data? 

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

Building data into Workplace Wellness Programs 

Why bother with Workplace Wellness Program Data? 

You need Workplace Wellness Program data to:

      • Assess whether or not your Workplace Wellness Program 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 Workplace Wellness Program resources.

      • Use Workplace Wellness Program resources efficiently and market your Workplace Wellness Program more effectively. 

Where to start collecting Workplace 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 By way of example: use dairy sales data in the dining center to measure the impact of a milk marketing/dairy month campaign.

      • Begin collecting JUST A FEW small pieces of information. Be innovative!

            o By way of example: BMI, APFT scores (before & after), tobacco quit rates 

IT’S NEVER TO LATE TO START collecting Workplace Wellness Program data. 

Innovative Workplace Wellness Program data strategies

      • Use local college/graduate students to help collect, input, and analyze Workplace 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 implement the data collection plan for your Workplace Wellness Program.

      • Use data to let upper management know about the Workplace Wellness 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 Workplace Wellness Program members.

            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 Workplace Wellness Program to readiness.