Workplace Wellness: Help your Employees ‘Find Their Spark’
Workplace Wellness is defined by the Global Wellness Institute as ‘any workplace health promotion activity or organizational policy designed to support healthy behaviour among employees and to improve health outcomes.’1
In some industries, Workplace Wellness may be better known by such titles as ‘Corporate Wellbeing’ or ‘Employee Health Promotion’.
These programs could involve:
- medical screening
- incentives
- behaviour change intervention
- fitness
- social support
- competition
- activities to promote wellbeing - e.g., resilience training, yoga, stress management, life satisfaction.
Find Your Spark concentrates on maximising the vital aspects of your physical health, including exercise regimes, sleep schedules, and stress management, with a strong focus on eating well.
Why Is Workplace Wellness Important?
“Health care costs continue to rise for both employers and employees with profits and paychecks shrinking to cover basic health care benefits. One way to address this economic challenge is to encourage and help workers get well and stay well, and healthy eating is a cornerstone of this endeavor.”2
Ill-health takes a physical, emotional, and financial toll on employees – and the businesses they work for. While people often strive for good health in their personal lives, achieving ‘wellness’ at work and at home is the optimum situation for people to a live fully balanced and nourished life. Employers can support the overall health of their employees and, in turn, their businesses, by encouraging awareness, connection and good nutrition through relevant ‘Workplace Wellness’ programs.
Take care of your employees, and they’ll take care of your business. It’s as simple as that. Healthy, engaged employees are your top competitive advantage.
~ Richard Branson
Each dollar a company invests in workplace wellness programs saves them money in reduced health care costs and improved productivity.
Businesses immediately benefit from healthier employees due to:
- reduced absenteeism
- enhanced work performance
- improved job satisfaction
- higher staff retention rates
When business owners are proactive about their employees’ health and happiness, it is likely to boost staff engagement and build a better overall representation of their brand.
COVID-19 & Nutrition
Good nutrition is critical for ongoing health and wellness.
The past two years have been one of the most interrupted time periods of our lives. Government restrictions and lockdowns have had a significant impact on our daily routines, lifestyle, work, and health habits. The Harris Poll survey showed that 61% of adults had unwanted weight changes during the pandemic, with 42% experiencing weight gain. Restrictions have affected our nutrition habits (including grocery availability and accessibility) and, even more so, our eating behaviours. I know my family and I ate take-away far more often than usual as we did our best to ‘support local’ cafes and restaurants who were struggling during this time!
To strengthen and support our immune systems, it is important to eat a balanced diet, maintain regular physical activity, and care for our mental wellbeing. Amid the current global pandemic, sustaining a robust immune system should mean we are less likely to get seriously sick, from COVID-19 or other illnesses.
This pandemic also caused psychological pressures that resulted in many people ‘emotional eating’, while gym closures and limits on time and places for outdoor activity prevented people from immersing themselves in their usual exercise habits.
Healthy Employees Are Productive Employees
Workplace Wellness programs can increase a person’s desire to work, and their productivity.
Healthy staff are almost three times more productive than unhealthy ones, which can result in them taking up to nine times less total sick leave each year. Research compiled by Medibank Private found that the majority of unhealthy employees took, on average, 18 sick days each year, compared to an average of two days taken by healthy people.
In general, healthier employees:
- perform their duties to a higher level
- have a cheerier disposition, which lifts mood and improves customer interactions
- have lower stress levels
- are less likely to call in sick
- probably don’t use holiday leave due to illness
- also encourage healthier behaviours at home, which results in less time off to care for sick family members
- won’t bring illness to the workplace
- may experience increased job satisfaction
- are better able to manage the work/life balance
Dear Business Owner …
Do you want your employees to feel energetic, motivated, healthy, and perform at the peak of their ability?
Now is the best time to engage Find Your Spark Workplace Wellness Programs to show your employees exactly how to achieve this and feel their best.
Nutrition Is Crucial
Busy business owners and their employees are often hard-pressed for time, which often leads to poor choices of snacks and meals or worse, not eating at all! Not fuelling the body correctly can result in a reliance on caffeine and sugar to get through the day. Unfortunately, these strategies cause the body more harm than good.
Keep nutrition simple! Get Superpowers to Thrive
This is what Find Your Spark does best because if it’s simple … it’s achievable!
The simple tools and strategies presented in our ‘Superpowers To Thrive’ workshop can be implemented immediately.
Find Your Spark can work with your business to:
- provide a nutrition education workshop
- organise a Workplace Health Challenge
- deliver the unique Staff Rejuvenation program.
We are also COVID-19 responsible and inclusive, so all programs can be offered in-person or virtually.
Healthy Habits To Thrive
Education is the obvious starting point to help your staff become nutrition conscious.
Perfect as a stand-alone presentation/workshop, or as part of your larger Workplace Wellness Day, employees will learn the ‘Two Percenters’ to give them the edge, and allow them to create healthy habits to thrive, not just survive. They will discover small nutrition tweaks to improve their daily productivity, and acquire knowledge fundamental to navigate stress, experience restful sleep, and achieve weight wellness.
Elevate To Success
The ‘Elevate To Success’ workshop is perfect for workplaces that elect to immerse in a full day of wellness.
Through a mix of formal presentations, collaborative group discussion and interactive activities, employees will bolster their knowledge to actively create better health choices in their daily lives. Staff engage in an enriching practical activity to reinforce their learnings. They are guided to whip up an effortless, wholesome snack then, later, unite in health with a nutritious pre-prepared lunch.
For business owners who seek an ongoing approach to workplace health, this workshop can be tailored to deliver six independent modules.
Workplace Rejuvenation
Businesses intent on making a longer-term impact on staff health will love our Workplace Rejuvenation Program.
The awakening commences with your tailored Nutrition Workshop to introduce the foundations of health and wellness principles to your employees. Following their workshop, each staff member receives a complimentary nutrition consultation inclusive of a ‘Personal Goal Setting & Planning’ session to prepare for a 10- or 28-Day health challenge. This package then incorporates our unique ‘Workplace Wellness Challenge’, which is delivered online and concludes with an emerging transformation winner.
Invest In The People Who Invest In You
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The ultimate Workplace Rejuvenation includes a diversified
Ignite program.
This month-long nutritional cleanse gives each staff member a personalised system for their individual success. The package incorporates supplemented nutritional products, personal coaching and support with Find Your Spark (inclusive of accountability coaching and check-ins), motivational material, recipe tools, and exercise challenges.
This format is structured for monetary incentivisation for business owners so, if this arrangement is of interest, please make
contact to discuss further.
Implement a fun and innovative Workplace Wellness program to show your employees how valued they are. Your people are the most important asset to your business, it makes sense to invest in their health. Help your staff find their superpowers to thrive! Contact Find Your Spark today!.
