Health Wellness Newsletters

What Do You Want to Achieve?

Think about why you’re reviewing  and what your evaluation is going to measure.

When you’re attempting to find out whether an initiative has been successful, see when you followed your mission statement and met your objectives and objectives.

If you don’t have a mission statement or objectives or objectives, decide with senior level management and your employee committee how your organization will measure success.

For example, you are able to measure success by changes in -

o  Physical measures (e.g., strength, flexibility, waist circumference of employees).

o  Psychological measures (e.g., employee morale, satisfaction levels, stress levels).

o  Productivity measures (e.g., decrease in absenteeism rates, increased worker productivity).

Thinking About Employees

If you’re considering making improvements to the program, think about whether the program is still relevant and appropriate for workers. Find out if there are any barriers to participation in the wellness program or to participation in exercise during the workday.

As workers are the ones participating in the wellness program, it is crucial that you give them a chance to provide feedback on the exercise initiative.

Selecting an Investigation Method

Decide on your investigation method. Both measurable results (e.g., absenteeism rates or questionnaire responses) and descriptive results (e.g., one-on-one interviews or focus groups) could be used to evaluate.

The method you select will depend on the time and funding available and what you want to measure.

Deciding Just how to Do the Investigation

Plan when and where you will do your analysis (and who will be evaluated). for more information, peruse the “Types of Investigations” section on this website.

You might want to pilot test your investigation (e.g., with members of the employee committee) before sending it out to staff.  The employee committee might also want to evaluate the program’s planning process.

Doing the Investigation

o  Compare your results to baseline information (i.e., examination results from before the launch of your program). If you don’t have this information, save your examination results to compare with later results.

You can also look at other information you may have, like employee satisfaction survey results.

o  Analyse and share meaningful and easy-to-understand results with upper management and workers.

o  Evaluation results can be used to improve the current exercise program and/or to develop new health promotion programs in future.