Company Wellness Programs

Company Health and Wellness Program business plan review (from Key #19)
• A Company Health and Wellness Program business plan is a roadmap for success.
• Your Company Health and Wellness Program business plan should convincingly demonstrate that your Company Health and Wellness Program will help the organization to achieve its goals.

More smart Company Health and Wellness Program business planning strategies

Planning the Company Health and Wellness Program
• Find out how your organization plans so that your planning process will be in sync with what already happens in the business.
• Involve other employees. A planning team brings their combined experience and perspective to the process. Including potential partners as you plan will make it easier to get their buy-in later.

Thinking of the big picture
• Consider the barriers and challenges that might be encountered during Company Health and Wellness Program implementation. Develop strategies ahead of time to overcome these potential problems.
• Do a SWOT assessment and examine Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.

This assessment will help you identify potential problem areas or resource shortfalls as well as opportunities for growth or increased partnerships with other company personnel.

The WORST business planning strategy: sitting in your office; working by yourself.

The best Company Health and Wellness Program business planning strategies
• Get out of your office; get out of the business. The more employees you involve in the Company Health and Wellness Program planning process, the better. Always look for ways to expand your network.
• Keep your budget employees informed. Get to know their philosophy of financial management.
• Be able to articulate the impact if your budget is not fully funded.
 o Stay away from basing your impact-if-not-funded argument only on: “We have to.”
 o Instead, describe the impact-if-not-funded with phrases like: injuries to workers, raised compensation costs, raised medical care costs for patients, lost work time, loss of licenses/accreditations, loss of workload to the Tricare network.
• Have purchase requests ready to be submitted. There is often a short window of time to process these requests. Having the information gathered ahead of time will make it easy to submit the information right away.

A well thought-out Company Health and Wellness Program business plan is essential in these times of shrinking budgets and resources. A good business plan will help you gain leadership support and help you get and keep resources needed to implement the Corporate Health Promotion Program.

Evaluation of successful Corporate Health Promotion Initiatives has revealed several key Company Health and Wellness Program strategies to increase Company Health and Wellness Program effectiveness and impact overall Soldier health.

Strategy #5: Using a small number of targeted priorities maintains Company Health and Wellness Program focus.
• Needs assessment data can be used to identify leading health needs and also high risk populations.
• Choosing a handful of specific health needs on which to focus will maximize efficient use of resources.
• Keeping the Company Health and Wellness Program focus small will avoid duplication of other ongoing company Corporate Health Promotion Programs.

Strategy #6: Use standardized processes whenever possible.

Reduce the amount of variation within your Corporate Health Promotion Initiatives by standardizing all the processes needed for Company Health and Wellness Program planning and implementation. For example:
• Use the same spreadsheet format for data collection so that the columns are in the same order. This way you can compare data more easily.
• Reuse the same forms for enrollment and attendance. Change the heading as needed.
• Look at other Company Health and Wellness Program processes (like registration, evaluation, marketing, etc.). What parts of those processes can be standardized?
• The Wellness and Prevention Initiatives website (http://chppmwww. apgea.army.mil/dhpw/Population/HPPiFunction.aspx) has many standardized Company Health and Wellness Program resources in a variety of topic areas.

Strategy #7: Company Health and Wellness Program delivery methods should be flexible and adapted to population needs.
• Delivery of products and services may depend on: company needs, training requirements, other scheduling considerations (such as work/duty schedules, school scheduling, etc.), member preference, and/or availability of staff or space.
• Be flexible: the same produce/service delivery methods may not work for every population.
• Some company’s may want services provided to them as close as possible to the company location; other companies may prefer as many services as possible bundled together at once (regardless of location).
• Take wellness and preventive medicine beyond the walls of the business in order to meet leadership and staff member needs. Answer the question: “How can we best help leadership and Employees to fulfill their mission?”