Posted by admin | Posted in Health Program Ideas, Screening and Intervention Programs, Wellness Program Incentives | Posted on 03-04-2009
What Do You Seek to Achieve?
Consider why you’re evaluating and what your evaluation is going to measure.
If you’re trying to discover whether program has been efficacious, see if you followed your mission statement and met your objectives.
If you don’t have a mission statement or goals, agree with senior staff and your employee Worksite Health Promotion Program Committee how your organization will measure success.
For example, you can measure success by changes in:
• Physical measures (e.g., strength, flexibility, waist circumference of employees).
• Psychological measures (e.g., employee morale, satisfaction levels, stress levels).
• Productivity measures (e.g., decrease in absenteeism rates, increased employee productiveness).
Thinking About staff members
If you’re considering making improvements to the plan, consider whether the plan is still relevant and appropriate for staff members. See if there are any obstacles to participation in the program or to participation in physical exercise during work.
As employees are the ones participating in the program, it’s important to give them a chance to offer feedback on the physical exercise program.
Choosing an Evaluation Method
Decide on your assessment method. Both measurable results (e.g., absenteeism rates or questionnaire responses) and descriptive results (e.g., one-on-one interviews or focus groups) can be used to evaluate. The method you choose will depend on the time and funding available and what you want to measure.
Deciding How to Do the Evaluation
Decide when and where you will do your assessment (and who will be evaluated). For more information, read the “Types of Evaluations” section on this website.
You may want to pilot test your assessment (e.g., with members of the Company Wellness Program Committee) before sending it out to workers. The employee Company Wellness Program Committee may also want to evaluate the initiative’s planning process.
Doing the Evaluation
• Compare your outcome to baseline information (i.e., evaluation results from before the launch of your plan). If you don’t have this information, save your evaluation outcome to compare with later results. You can also look at other information you may have, such as employee satisfaction survey results.
• Analyze and share meaningful and easy-to-know results with senior staff and employees.
• Evaluation results can be used to improve the current physical exercise program and/or to foster new drives in future.