Corporate Wellness Blog

What Do You Wish to Achieve?

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

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

If you do not have a mission statement or goals/objectives, agree with senior staff and your employee Workplace Wellness 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 productivity).

Thinking About workers

If you’re thinking of making improvements to the program, think about whether the program is still relevant and appropriate for employees. See if there are any barriers to participation in the program or to participation in physical exercise during work.

As employees 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 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 hinge upon the time and funding available and what you want to measure.

Deciding How to Do the Assessment

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 may want to pilot test your assessment (e.g., with participants of the Company Wellness Program Committee) before sending it out to workers. The employee Company Wellness Program Committee may also wish 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 plan). 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 disseminate meaningful and easy-to-know results with senior staff and employees.
• Assessment results can be used to better the current physical exercise program and/or to advance new initiatives in future.