CWHP-A Reflections: Unit WWC01

Workplace evaluation and assessment are critical to ensuring initiatives are effective, relevant, and aligned with organisational needs. Right now, as I’m newer to my organisation and it didn’t have a structured health and wellness program, I find it essential to continually evaluate and assess engagement, buy-in, and practical use as the initiative develops. Ongoing assessment helps identify employee needs, measure participation, and determine whether strategies are resonating across different levels of the organisation. It also allows for timely adjustments, ensuring the committee evolves in a way that is sustainable and meaningful rather than symbolic. I will be using a number of the resources provided as we develop the programming further.

As a communicator, I definitely found the engagement and survey sections interesting and important! These must be done thoughtfully and carefully or you risk losing data, buy-in, attention, etc. The piece on hierarchy and org structure really points out that having a solid understanding of the org and its key players are going to be the big determinants influencing challenges and possibilities of change. I feel like more often, you're going to have to work within the system instead of trying to overhaul it. Is that too pessimistic or is it realistic? I'm not sure 🙃

This module was a great reminder of how all of these elements can contribute to (or hinder) the ecology of a workplace and the importance of consistent evaluation and assessment. Working with people means that every team, every moment and every interaction can be different and there are clear and consistent places where we can spend our time and resources to create opportunities for success and connection. We talk a lot at my workplace about how we are human-centered and our impulse (thankfully) is to support our team, but I'm now thinking about ways that our intent hasn't been as clearly defined as it could be and where we get tripped up in delivery. I'm looking forward to thinking about each of our crews individually rather than at our organization as a whole!