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Business Report

The LIFESTEPS® Management Team develops a business plan each year that includes goals and objectives related to leader training and development, program development, evaluation and marketing. Major accomplishments in these areas over the last three years include:

Evaluation

  • Development and pilot testing of an outcome survey instrument.
  • Initiation of a multi-year evaluation project.
  • Analysis of data on over 1100 participants started in 2007 by a graduate student in nutrition.

Leader Training and Development

  • Initiation of an online leader training course in February 2006.
  • Fifty-six leaders trained via the online course in 2006 and 2007.

Program Development

  • Addition of MyPyramid components completed in November 2005.
  • Leaders surveyed for input on video components of the program in 2007.
  • “Trigger” videos revised and made available to leaders in January 2008.
  • Work in progress on revision of the “Such A Pretty Face” video.
  • Website redesign completed in February 2008.

Leader Training and Development

  • The number of program participants increased from 631 in 2005 to over 1000 in 2006 and 2007.

Marketing

  • Postcard advertising the online leader training course mailed to:
    • ADA Weight Management DPG, 2006 and 2007.
    • American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (RD and RN members), 2007.
  • LIFESTEPS exhibited at FNCE’s Product Marketplace in 2006 and 2007.

 

 

 

LIFESTEPS® Mission

Is to provide a behaviorally and cognitively based weight management program for adult consumers designed to assist them in making lifestyle changes in eating and physical activity behaviors when delivered by a trained health professional.

LIFESTEPS website does not accept any advertisements or sponsorships. Funding for www.lifestepsweight.com is provided by LIFESTEPS, Inc., a nonprofit nutrition education organization.