IAWHP Pre Con Discussion Table Notes

1. IAWHP Pre Con Discussion Table Notes

2. Getting a Job in WHP • Focus – do you prefer prevention (personal training, health coaching, wellness) or rehab (ATC, PA, PT, Cardiac Rehab) • Goal – private (work for employer) or commercial (create own business). What’s your comfort? • Read publications outside of health (to differentiate yourself – EAP, employee benefits, HR, leadership, workers comp) • Become an expert in one area – diabetes educator, injury prevention, smoking cessation) • Identify contact and request an informational interview (call/meeting). Send thank you note with resume. • Pursue internship. Don’t discard part-time – get your foot in door • If new to field, create “related qualifications” section on resume and list attributes (budgeting, analytics, organized, writing skills, data management, leadership) • Obtain certifications: CHES, Coaching • Take leadership role and create community health task force (invite non-profits, hospitals, health plans, employers

3. Engaging Leadership • What are leaders business needs – build wellness bridge to reduce injuries, improve morale. • Address past failures as part of new plan • Start small with planned pilot and measures • Make participation a metric for middle management • Work with supervisors to fit in (plan in advance so they have time to prepare) • Get to know union leaders (ensure things are made in USA) • Explore ACA incentive plan • Align wellness with open enrollment (VP Benefits or VP HR)

4. Bridge Health with Your Business Needs

5. Diversity and WHP • Challenges – gaining trust, different value systems, opinion on nutrition/diet, finances, communication styles, literacy levels, different job functions and cultures (sales, engineers, hourly) • Solutions – become familiar with population (committee to id concerns); gain trust first (“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care”); make leadership aware of challenges and obtain funding to meet needs; provide self directed resources; adapt tools like bi-lingual HRA; document participation in your report; package programs that can be shared with female/household; offer translators; create employee/child programs

6. Strategies for Companies < 1000 EES • Barriers – no budget, remote workers, lack of awareness • Administered by a variety of departments • Leverage wellness champions (volunteers) and EAP program; health plan resources • Develop new campaign/brand • Topics of interest – nutrition, stress • Health challenges popular (walk, stairs, water) • Survey “what would make employees happy?”

7. Strategies for Companies > 1000 EES • Understand your culture (what do people want; what are their barriers to part) • Provide express programs that don’t take a lot of time • Provide quality/professional staff • Engage senior management – define their business need and build wellness bridge to meet that need (prevent injuries, improve morale) • Create dashboard report for mgt to brief them on your goals and progress monthly • Think about VOI (Value) not just ROI • Offer programs 24/7 (rotate days/week) • Engagement – offer onsite coaching (vs tele) • “Meeting you where you’re at, taking you where you want to be”

8. Additional Strategies • Survey participants and non-participants • Plans must be aligned with company business plans (are stakeholders vested in wellness) • Strategies > Tactics > Operations • Marketing Strategies (internal, vendor, hybid) • Focus on employee segments (female, male, hourly, salaried, union, remote) • Assess and provide intervention (measure time 1 and time 2)

9. Best Practice Design Principles 9 Best Practice Dimensions • Leadership • Relevance • Partnership • Comprehensiveness • Implementation • Engagement • Communications • Data-Driven • Compliance

10. Social Media at WHP • Hire young intern/staff to guide social media strategies (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, email, trends/viral) • Have mgt approve plan • Explore virtual platforms (on demand) • Resources/Books – Tribes, Connected, Contagious • Leverage lay leaders – look for role models to become wellness champions (one per location) • Align with organization communication systems – leverage THAT to spread word • Auto – retweet • Creates posts; leverage blogs; Tell stories! Get and share testimonials!

11. Enhance Career • Consulting path (create, challenging with billable hours, lack of job security, rely on client decisions) • Specialist in an area (finance, injuries, diabetes, data management, MBA) • Explore new opportunities with health plans, insurance brokers

12. CDC Healthier Worksite InitiativeFood at Meetings Guidance

13. CDC Healthier Worksite Initiative http://www.cdc.gov/hwi • Goals • For worksite health promotion to become a part of CDC culture • Increase “healthy days” among CDC employees • Strategies • Formative research • Collaboration • Physical Environment modifications • Policy modifications

14. CDC Workplace Tools and Resources

15. CDC Workplace Health Promotion Toolkit www.cdc.gov/whp

16. Join IAWHP.org • Deskside Learning Audio Archives -Access audio archives of sessions presented by some of the industry’s top thought-leaders and practitioners.  • Article Library -Access this library of articles from the Worksite Health Promotion, The Legal Aspects, and The Business Side columns from ACSM’s Heath & Fitness Journal ® • Models & Samples - Who has time to re-invent the wheel?  Designed to generate ideas and save you time, this benefit (in development) will be a collection of models & samples used by real worksite health promotion practitioners.  • FIT Society Newsletters- Access these electronic newsletters written for the public on a variety of popular health and fitness topics. The newsletters may be reproduced and distributed as a resource for your employees or clients.  • Publications-Access information on publications produced by or endorsed by IAWHP.  Download issues ofWorksite Health International, the official publication of IAWHP. • Publicações-Acesseinformaçõesoupublicaçõesproduzidasouapoiadaspela IAWHP. Faça o download de ediçõesanteriores de Worksite Health International, publicaçãooficial de IAWHP. • Career Services-Access recources dedicated to supporting the career development of members and assisting employers with finding high-quality professionals.  • Policy-Access public policy resources of interest to the worksite health promotion community (in development).    • Global Connection-Access links to regional organizations and initiatives around the world.   • IAWHP in the Media-Access IAWHP interviews on Health Radio and on the Good Health is Good Business radio shows.