Step 4: Follow up regularly on the activity and evaluate its effects

As mentioned in Step 3, we recommend that you take an experimental approach to the activities/initiatives/changes you try out, in the sense that you test, evaluate and adjust them.

• Establish how often you will follow up.
• Decide who should follow up and how.
• Make sure that both good and bad experiences are shared – and in the relevant forums and committees, such as department meetings, management meetings, the local occupational health and safety committee, and the local liaison committee.
• Discuss whether there are other activities that naturally follow on from the work you’ve done so far.
• Discuss how you can maintain your focus going forward, perhaps by focusing on other initiatives, such as gender equality, career development, WPA follow-up, strategy work, or communication style.

Responsibility and roles

As a manager, it is your responsibility to ensure that the activities/initiatives are followed up on. You have overall responsibility for maintaining focus and ensuring that follow-ups and evaluations are carried out, but you may allocate or delegate specific responsibilities and roles to others. The most important thing is to decide who should follow up, how, and how often – and to ensure that all the people involved feel empowered and able to do a good job, with you helping them to maintain focus.