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Think ahead: what unexpected challenges might come up as you implement your Corporate Health Promotion Program? How could you adapt and change the Corporate Health Promotion Program to meet those challenges?

• Consider the “what if’s?”

• What if your classroom space is suddenly no longer available?

• What if you can’t hold the Health Fair in the usual place?

• Have a ‘Plan B’ (or even Plan C or Plan D) in mind for when the “what if’s” happen.

• Build a team that can help with the Corporate Health Promotion Program

• Who else could teach the health education class if the regular instructor cancels at the last minute?

• Know what areas of expertise your staff has besides their ‘main’ job. For example, find out who has excercise instructor credentials besides just the physical therapist.

• Don’t wait for a crisis before you build a network of people that you can call on.

• Be ready to roll your sleeves up

• Jump in to fill a gap if you need to.

• YOU may have to help restock the milk case in the dining facility when the Dairy Month ‘Milk Mustache’ contest results in increased sales during lunch.

• Be willing (and ready) to respond to feedback about the Corporate Health Promotion Program

• Get participant feedback while the Corporate Health Promotion Program is ongoing. Then be ready to adapt to those suggestions.

• For example, if kids in a pediatric obesity Corporate Health Promotion Program fight the idea of completing physical excercise logs, then get a verbal summary of their activity for the week instead.

• Simplify Corporate Health Promotion Program

• If part of your Corporate Health Promotion Program is not working, try making that part less complicated.

• For example, if getting follow-up information is not going the way you planned, then make the process to get information easier OR decrease the number of pieces of information that you collect.

• Use lemons to make lemonade

• What do you do when the Corporate Health Promotion Program doesn’t turn out exactly as you planned? Look for what did turn out. Often, the ‘unexpected outcomes’ produce positive results.

• For example, one installation’s database to collect sick call data was made obsolete by a regional system. However, the installation database was able to be used in a different way to track vaccination information that improved delivery of care to Employees.

• At another installation, world events halted a new physical training program. Instead, Corporate Health Promotion Program materials were made into a excercise guide.