Evaluate your Workplace Wellness Plan
- Evaluate on a regular basis and monitor your progress using the methods established in your plan
- Compare your baseline data with your post-activity or program results and prepare brief descriptions of the findings to help share them with others
- Evaluate the overall success of the wellness committee structure, management’s contribution to daily wellness-supporting practices and your wellness plan in meeting your goals.
- Prepare information to demonstrate the actual Return on Investment (ROI) for workplace wellness, any other benefits to employee health, safety and wellness and the overall performance of the organization
- Measure the success of the people and organizational change strategies you’ve used to maintain a positive work environment during your transition and establish workplace wellness as an integral part of your organization
- Determine recommendations such as, what to stop doing, change, keep and start doing, as you continue on your workplace wellness journey
- Report the findings and recommendations to your senior leaders and confirm their commitment for continued investment in workplace wellness
- Communicate the results of your evaluation, the recommendations and approved next steps with all stakeholders
- Continue your workplace wellness planning including revising the plan and establishing new objectives, as needed, with your stakeholders
Find more information, tools and resources to help you below:
- Materials to help calculate a return on investment Published by the Conference Board of Canada
- Metrics Checklist for Employers
- Making the Business Case for Investments in Workplace Health and Wellness (Webinar)
- Making the Business Case for Investments in Workplace Health and Wellness (Presentation)
Companion exercise materials:
- Workplace Wellness – A Roadmap for your Journey (presentation)
Created by the Workplace Wellness Movement
- Audio Presentations By Public Health Ontario
- Health Promotion Programs – Overview of the ten-step evaluation process
- Health Promotion Programs – Clarify the program and engage stakeholders
- Health Promotion Programs – Assess Resources and identify questions
- Health Promotion Programs – Determine methods of measurement
- Health Promotion Programs – Develop evaluation plan, collect data and analyze results
- Health Promotion Programs – Interpret and share evaluation results and apply findings
- Health Promotion Programs – Planning tool to share evaluation results
- Carefully Evaluating Outcomes – Developing Results Orientated Wellness Programs
By WELCOA
- Healthy Workplace – Template (includes information on assessing your results)
By the University of Alberta
- Workforce Health and Productivity: how employers measure, benchmark and use productivity outcomes
Published by the Integrated Benefits Institute
- Healthy Workplaces Journey to Excellence: The Complete Guide
By Workplace Safety and Prevention Services – Ontario
- Program Measurement and Evaluation Guide
By the Health Enhancement Research Organization and the Population Health Alliance
Workplace Wellness Case Studies by the Conference Board of Canada
- Wellness Metrics in Action – Toronto East General Hospital: Evaluation Through Feedback
- Wellness Metrics in Action – Lakeside Process Controls: Increasing Employee Engagement
- Wellness Metrics in Action – Marine Atlantic: Employee-Driven Programs
- Wellness Metrics in Action – Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation: Achieving Success at Every Level
- Wellness Metrics in Action – Telus: A Culture of Health and Wellness
- Wellness Metrics in Action – Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ): Promoting Health
- Wellness Metrics in Action – CMP Advanced Mechanical: Low Cost, High Return
- Wellness Metrics in Action – Conception Bay: Reducing Absenteeism
- Wellness Metrics in Action – Desjardins Group: Return on Investments in Wellness
- Wellness Metrics in Action – The Williamson Group: An Organizational Culture of Caring