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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 plan has been efficacious, see if you followed your mission statement and met your objectives and goals.

If you do not have a mission statement or goals and objectives, agree with management and your employee Worksite Wellness Program Committee how your organization will track success.

By way of example, you can track success by changes in:

• Physical measures (e.g., strength, flexibility, waist circumference of workers).
• Psychological measures (e.g., employee morale, satisfaction levels, stress levels).
• Productivity measures (e.g., decline in absenteeism rates, increased employee work rate).

Thinking About workers

If you’re thinking of making improvements to the program, consider whether the program is still relevant and fitting for workers. Find out if there are any obstacles to participation in the program or to participation in physical exercise during work.

As staff members are the ones participating in the program, it’s valuable to give them a chance to offer feedback on the physical activity 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 hinge upon 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 evaluation (and who will be evaluated). For more information, read the “Types of Evaluations” section on this website.
You might want to pilot test your evaluation (e.g., with members of the Corporate Wellness Program Committee) before sending it out to employees. The employee Corporate Wellness Program Committee might also wish to evaluate the initiative’s planning process.

Doing the Assessment

• Compare your results to baseline information (i.e., evaluation results from before the launch of your initiative). If you don’t have this information, save your evaluation results to compare with later results. You can also look at other information you may have, such as employee satisfaction survey results.
• Analyze and disseminate meaningful and easy-to-know results with senior staff and staff members.
• Assessment results can be used to improve the current physical activity program and/or to cultivate new pushes in future.