Creating a Company Health Promotion Initiative business Plan, part 2

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

More smart Company Health Promotion Initiative business planning strategies

Planning the Company Health Promotion Initiative
• Find out how your organization plans so that your planning process will be in sync with what already happens in the organization.
• 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 Promotion Initiative 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 establish potential problem areas or resource shortfalls and opportunities for growth or raised partnerships with other company personnel.

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

The best Company Health Promotion Initiative business planning strategies
• Get out of your office; get out of the business. The more employees you involve in the Company Health Promotion Initiative 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, increased compensation costs, increased 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 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 Company Health Promotion Initiative business plan is critical 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 start the Employee Wellness Program.