Worksite Wellness Program: Monitor and Review Your Worksite Wellness Program

Program evaluation may be The previous step, but it ought to be planned at the onset 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 evaluation data, adjustments

have the potential to be made to fine-tune your wellness program. Adjusting the program based on evaluation data is vital to its

continued performance.

Reviewing your program does not have to be be terribly complex. However, it is important to plan how you will oversee your wellness

efforts and determine performance during the planning phase or Step 5. Also keep in mind to evaluate the program based on the goals

and objectives you already identified during your creating process.

In order to evaluate your program you need to 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 workers who participated
The numbers of handouts taken by workers or distributed and on what subject matters
The number of participants in a behavior change program and how many met their goals and objectives as well as howmany attended all of the sessions
Numbers of workers who continued the healthy behavior change following the program?
Overall employee satisfaction with the program or each topic

Depending on your goals and objectives, gather desired data and compare it to previous data gathered during the initial assessment to

determine if the goals and objectives were met. Such data might include

Once you have collected all of the evaluation information it needs to be reviewed with the Worksite Wellness Program Committee and

summarized. You will probably have positive results and some areas where a change is needed or additional focus needed for

continuous improvement. This not-so positive information can be used to make any needed changes as well as to plan for next year

and is important to include in your report.

It is important to communicate the wellness program results to both senior staff and workers. Consider how senior staff usually

receives reports on operations and productivity concerns and include the yearly wellness program report in the same format. At some

businesses the reports are made during senior staff 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 reported.

No matter the format, it’s important 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 company mission and bottom line whenever possible.

Workers desire to receive the same information! You might use the same communication channels used when informing workers of the

wellness program:

Also consider celebrating successes and recognizing achievements by:

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