Beyond Good Intentions: A Smarter Way to Evaluate Workforce Initiatives

Health systems are investing more than ever in workforce well-being, stability and retention. Determining which initiatives are truly making a difference is critical, but remains challenging when initiative outcomes seem disconnected or “soft.” How do leaders move beyond participation, satisfaction, and anecdotal feedback to understand whether an initiative is addressing the right problem and producing meaningful results?
Originally presented at the Joy & Wholeness Summit, this webinar revisits the Initiative Intelligence Guide, a practical framework developed in partnership with the American Hospital Association to help healthcare leaders more rigorously evaluate workforce initiatives. We’ll walk through the framework, demonstrate how it can help leaders connect workforce outcomes to organizational priorities, and hear from SSM Health about how they have put the approach into practice to strengthen the evaluation of their own workforce initiatives.

Attendees will leave with a practical approach they can use to ask better questions, evaluate impact, and make more confident decisions about where to continue, adapt, expand or reconsider their workforce investments.