Health Promotion Strategies

What Do You Want to Achieve?

Think about why you are assessing  and what your investigation is going to measure.

If you are attempting to find out whether an initiative has been successful, see if you followed your mission statement and met your objectives and objectives.

When you do not have a mission statement or goals or goals, decide with management and your worker committee how your organization will measure success.

For example, you are able to 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 worker productivity).

Thinking About Employees

If you are considering making improvements to the initiative, think about whether the initiative is still relevant and appropriate for staff members. Find out if there are any barriers to participation in the program or to participation in exercise during the workday.

As workers are the ones participating in the program, it’s important to give them a chance to provide feedback on the exercise initiative.

Picking an Investigation Method

Decide on your examination 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 pick will depend on the time and funding available and what you want to measure.

Determining How to Do the Investigation

Plan when and where you’ll do your investigation (and who’ll be evaluated). for more information, read the “Types of Investigations” section on this website.

You may want to pilot test your investigation (e.g., with members of the worker committee) before sending it out to employees. the worker committee may also want to evaluate the initiative’s planning process.

Doing the Evaluation

• Compare your results to baseline information (i.e., evaluation results from before the launch of your initiative). When you don’t have this information, save your evaluation results to compare with later results.

You can also look at other information you could have, like staff member satisfaction survey results.

• Analyse and share meaningful and easy-to-understand results with management and staff members.

• Examination results could be used to improve the current physical activity program and/or to develop new programs in future.