Posted by Health Handouts | Posted in Health Handouts, Health Tips | Posted on 13-07-2009
Program assessment may be The previous step, but it ought to be planned at the onset of your efforts! Evaluation helps you identify what parts of the program are working well and what parts need improvement. Then, based on the assessment data, adjustments have the potential to be made to fine-tune your wellness program. Adjusting the program based on assessment data is vital to its continued success.
Analyzing your program need not be complicated. However, it is significant to plan how you will monitor your wellness efforts and determine success during the planning phase or Step 5. Also keep in mind to evaluate the program based on the goals/objectives you already identified during your organizing process.
In order to evaluate your program you need to have a system to document specifics as you go along. This can be as simple as maintaining file folders on programs that are offered, or a computer document with a table or spreadsheet summarizing information collecting. Consider:
• Program topic and numbers of staff members who participated
• The numbers of handouts taken by staff members or distributed and on what issues
• The number of participants in a behavior modification program and how many met their goals/objectives as well as how many attended all of the sessions
• Numbers of workers who continued the healthy behavior modification following the program?
• Overall employee satisfaction with the program or each topic.
Depending on your objectives and goals, gather desired data and compare it to previous data gathered during the initial assessment to determine if the objectives and goals were met. Such data might include
• Absentee rates
• Injury rates
• Health risk factors Insurance costs
Summarize and Report Company Health Promotion Program Results
Once you have collected all of the assessment information it needs to be reviewed with the Corporate Health Promotion Program Committee and summarized. You will probably have positive results and some areas where a change is required or additional focus required for continuous improvement. This not-so positive information can be used to make any required changes as well as to plan for next year and is important to include in your report.
It is significant to communicate the wellness program results to both management and staff members. Consider how management usually receives reports on operations and productivity problems and include the yearly wellness program report in the same format. At some companies the reports are made during management meetings using presentation styles such as authority point slides. At other companies, graphs and bar charts are the norm or a list of the objectives and the summary outcomes published.
No matter the format, it’s significant to convey the outcomes and successes achieved, including any anecdotal stories, as well as areas for improvement. Be sure to link the outcomes to the business mission and bottom line whenever possible.
Employees desire to receive the same information! You might use the same communication channels used when informing employees of the wellness program:
• Company newsletters,
• Bulletin boards,
• E-mails
Also consider celebrating successes and recognizing achievements by:
• Posting pictures from programs
• Highlighting success stories
• Posting pictures of successes
• Hosting a celebration
• Recognizing champions