IAWHP Pre Con
Discussion Table Notes
Getting a Job in WHP
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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
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)
Bridge Health with Your Business Needs
Business Needs
Engage senior managers
Wellness Programs
Golf Conditioning, Ski Conditioning
Impact absence, short-term disability Injury Prevention Programs
Leverage health plan / EAP
resources
Health Coaching “warm hand-offs”
Help employees cope with change
Eating for Energy; Relaxation
Techniques; Tips for Greater Energy
and Performance
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
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?”
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”
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)
Best Practice Design Principles
9 Best Practice Dimensions
• Leadership
• Relevance
• Partnership
• Comprehensiveness
• Implementation
• Engagement
• Communications
• Data-Driven
• Compliance
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!
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
CDC Healthier Worksite Initiative
Food at Meetings Guidance
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
CDC Workplace Tools and Resources
CDC Workplace Health Promotion Toolkit
www.cdc.gov/whp
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