Program evaluation may be the last step, but it must be planned at the beginning of your efforts! Analysis assists you identify what parts of the program are working well and what parts need improvement.
Then, based on the investigation data, adjustments could be made to fine-tune your health promotion program. Adjusting the program based on investigation data is crucial to its continued success.
Reviewing your program does not have to be complicated. HOWEVER, it’s important to plan how you’ll monitor your wellness efforts and determine success during the planning phase.
Additionally remember to evaluate the program based on the goals and goals you already identified during your planning process.
In order to evaluate your program you need to have a system to document specifics as you go along. This may be as simple as maintaining file folders on programs that are offered, or a computer document with a table or spreadsheet summarizing information gathering. Consider –
• Program topic and numbers of employees who participated
• The numbers of pamphlets taken by workers or distributed and on what topics
• The number of participants in a behavior change program and how many met their goals in addition to 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. Here’s a sample evaluation form.
Depending on your objectives and objectives, gather desired data and compare it to previous data collected during the initial assessment to determine if the objectives were met. Such data might include
• Absentee rates
• Injury rates
• Health risk factors Insurance costs
Summarize and Report Health Promotion Program Results
Once you have gathered all the examination information it needs to be reviewed with the Health Promotion Committee and summarized. You’ll probably have positive results and some areas where a change is needed or additional focus required for continuous improvement.
This not-so positive information may 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 health promotion program results to both management and staff members. Consider how management ordinarily receives reports on operations and productivity issues and include the annual health promotion program report in the same format.
At some businesses the reports are made during management meetings using presentation styles like 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, in addition to areas for improvement. Make certain to link the outcomes to the company mission and bottom line whenever possible.
Staff Members want to receive the same information! Consider using the same communication channels used when informing employees of the health promotion program –
• Business newsletters,
• Bulletin boards,
• E-mails
Additionally consider celebrating successes and recognizing achievements by –
• Posting pictures from events
• Highlighting success stories
• Posting pictures of successes
• Scheduling a celebration
• Recognizing champions
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