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What Do You Wish to Achieve?

Consider why you’re evaluating and what your evaluation is going to measure.

If you’re trying to find out whether plan has been thriving, see if you stuck to your mission statement and met your objectives and goals.

If you don’t have a mission statement or objectives and goals, decide with senior staff and your employee Workplace Wellness Program Committee how your organization will measure success.

For example, you can track success by changes in:

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

Thinking About workers

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

As workers are the ones participating in the program, it’s important to give them a chance to offer feedback on the physical activity plan.

Choosing an Assessment Method

Decide on your evaluation 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

Plan 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 might want to pilot test your assessment (e.g., with participants of the Company Health Promotion Program Committee) before sending it out to workers. The employee Company Health Promotion Program Committee might also want to evaluate the initiative’s planning process.

Doing the Evaluation

• Compare your results to baseline information (i.e., assessment results from before the launch of your initiative). If you don’t have this information, save your assessment results 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-understand results with upper management and employees.
• Assessment results can be used to better the current physical exercise program and/or to cultivate new drives in future.