Wellness Library : Company Wellness Program: Monitor and Assess Your Company Wellness Program
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Program assessment may be The previous step, but it should be planned at the beginning of your efforts! Assessment helps you identify what parts of the program are working well and what parts could use 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 performance.
Analyzing your program does not have to be be terribly complex. However, it is valuable to plan how you will oversee your wellness efforts and determine effectiveness during the planning phase or Step 5. Also keep in mind to evaluate the program based on the objectives and goals you already established during your creating process.
In order to evaluate your program you must have a system to document specifics as you progress. 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 employees who participated
• The numbers of handouts taken by workers or distributed and on what issues
• The number of participants in a behavior change program and how many met their objectives as well as how many attended all of the sessions
• Numbers of employees who continued the healthy behavior change following the program?
• Overall employee satisfaction with the program or each topic.
Depending on your goals/objectives, gather desired data and compare it to previous data gathered during the initial assessment to determine if the goals/objectives 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 Wellness 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 valuable to include in your report.
It is significant to communicate the wellness program outcome to both management and employees. Consider how management usually receives reports on operations and work rate concerns and include the yearly wellness program report in the same format. At some businesses the reports are made during management meetings using presentation styles such as power point slides. At other businesses, graphs and bar charts are the norm or a list of the objectives and the summary outcomes published.
No matter the format, it’s valuable 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 organization mission and bottom line whenever possible.
Staff Members wish to receive the same information! You might use the same communication channels used when informing employees of the wellness program:
• Organization newsletters,
• Bulletin boards,
• E-mails
Also consider celebrating successes and recognizing achievements by:
• Posting pictures from events
• Highlighting effectiveness stories
• Posting pictures of successes
• Hosting a celebration
• Recognizing champions
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