More smart Corporate Health Promotion Plan organization planning strategies

Planning the Corporate Health Promotion Plan
• Find out how your organization plans so that your planning process will be in sync with what already happens in the corporate.
• 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
• Look at the barriers and challenges that might be encountered during Corporate Health Promotion Plan implementation. Develop strategies ahead of time to overcome these potential problems.
• Do a SWOT analysis and examine Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.

This analysis will help you identify potential problem areas or resource shortfalls and opportunities for growth or raised partnerships with other company personnel.

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

The best Corporate Health Promotion Plan organization planning strategies
• Get out of your office; get out of the organization. The more employees you involve in the Corporate Health Promotion Plan 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 Avoid 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.
• Always have purchase requests ready to be submitted. There is frequently 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 Corporate Health Promotion Plan organization plan is critical in these times of shrinking budgets and resources. A good organization plan will help you gain leadership support and help you get and keep resources needed to begin the Corporate Health Promotion Program.

What is a organization plan?
• A plan for success
• A document that convincingly demonstrates that your Corporate Health Promotion Plan will help the company to achieve its goals.

Questions to ask when developing a Corporate Health Promotion Plan organization plan
• Why do you need to do the Corporate Health Promotion Program?
• What are you going to do?
• Where are you going to do it?
• Who is the target audience?
• How are you going to do it?
• Who is going to begin the Corporate Health Promotion Program?
• How much will the Corporate Health Promotion Plan cost Senior Management?
• What is Senior Management going to get out of the Corporate Health Promotion Program? Why should Senior Management invest in the Corporate Health Promotion Program?

Corporate Health Promotion Plan organization Plan Components
• Title and duration of the Corporate Health Promotion Plan
• Points of contact
• Background information (description of need; bibliography/literature review; how the Corporate Health Promotion Plan will help achieve the organization’s goals)
• Corporate Health Promotion Plan description
• Goals and objectives
• Implementation site
• Target population
• Work plan
• Partnerships and collaborations
• Timelines and milestones
• Budget and resource requirements (dollars and employees)

Gaining the support of leadership
• Clearly link the Corporate Health Promotion Plan goals and objectives to the organization’s strategic plan.
• Focus on the desired outcomes.
• Use the right language for the right audience. For example, Senior Management is interested in decreased clinic visits, raised provider productivity, management of the health of the population. However, Senior Management is interested in raised readiness, decreased lost duty/training time, and decreased disability and FECA claims.
A well thought-out Corporate Health Promotion Plan organization plan will help you gain leadership support, help you get and keep resources needed to begin the Corporate Health Promotion Program, and keep the Corporate Health Promotion Plan on track towards meaningful outcomes.