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APRIL 2008
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THE ONE DAY HEALTH FITNESS

AND WELLBEING PROGRAM

 

So how do you engage people in a health, fitness and wellbeing program?

 

Take Your Staff Out Of The Office For A Day - away from the phones and the emails.

 

Short, sharp lunch time seminars are useful, but do they always attract the people who need to come? If they are voluntary, those most in need of a health, fitness and wellbeing pep talk won't attend - the unhealthy, the workaholic, the self absorbed ... You don't protect yourself from productivity losses.

 

There's no doubt that a day out has the capacity to provide ALL your staff with a real wake up call about their health, fitness and wellbeing.

 

It will contribute to a healthier staff and healthier esprit, (which the Macquarie Dictionary defines as 'sprightliness'), boost morale and group cohesion. It will set in train the wheels to fire up the workplace and improve productivity. See below for more reasons to justify a day out.

 

A DAY AT THE

AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF SPORT 

 

Get your managers to take their staff out for the day to one of my Health, Fitness and Wellbeing seminars.

 

I love taking groups out for these days. In Canberra I like to use the AIS as a venue. Intestate there are some fine venues where people can 'get lost' for the day.

 

This is an occasion for a manager and his or her staff to bring all the staff out for the day to take part in the Seven Habits of Fit and Healthy People program.

 

There's individual stuff, team stuff and a nice healthy lunch in the AIS dining room.

 

This is a day they'll talk about and remember for a long time.

 

It's a day that promises to add life and vitality to your work groups.

 

 

THE SEVEN HABITS OF FIT

AND HEALTHY PEOPLE

 

 

This program is a must for people who want to make improvements to their lifestyle; who want to feel better, have more energy and vitality, reduce their stress level, get more out of life, and live the life they'd like to live.

 

During the seminar you will

 

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discover why you feel better when you're fitter and the compelling reasons to exercise on a regular and systematic basis.

 

 

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assess the current status of your health and fitness according to the Five Star Health and Fitness Profile.

 

Our assessment profiles will give you a good picture of your over-all health in the following areas

•   physical fitness: - aerobic, strength and flexibility     

•   diet and chemical intake

•   musculo-skeletal risk                                     

•   stress

•   career satisfaction

 

By taking part in the seminar you will

 

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discover the compelling reasons to eat from the top of the Hourglass, exercise with vigour on a regular and systematic basis, meditate

 

 

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learn how to keep your neck and back in good shape

 

 

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learn how to relax in a way that benefits your head and your body.

 

 

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find out more about stress, where it comes from, what it does to you, and what you need to do to keep ahead of it.

 

 

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make an assessment of your level of career satisfaction.

 

 

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set realistic goals for improving your health and fitness and achieving peak performance

 

Wear  Casual dress, sandshoes, tracksuit       

Bring  reading glasses

 

The Seven Habits

•    Keep yourself aerobically fit

•    Keep yourself strong

•    Keep yourself flexible

•    Eat from the top of the Hourglass

•    Manage the stress of your life

•    Manage the stress of your job

•    Meditate

 

AUDIT REPORT

At the end of it we'll supply you organisation with an audit report on the health, fitness and wellbeing of your staff. Wirth the recommendations you'll have a blueprint for keeping your staff fit and he3althy to the best of your ability.

 

 

Click here or GIVE ME A CALL. I'LL TELL YOU MORE ABOUT IT AND BOOK YOU AND YOUR STAFF IN FOR A DAY.

 

 

 

 

Here's what some of the people who have attended have said about the One Day Seven Habits programs I've conduct for corporate organisations.

 

This is just a quick note to say that yesterday's session was informative and interesting. The feedback from the team was that they enjoyed it....everyone has turned up today!!!

Sue

 

     I participated in John's seminar for the Dept of Defence in February, and I found it to be a very inspiring and educational experience. It really made me reassess a lot of things going on at the moment.
Angie
 

     The ongoing feedback from the day has been excellent and I am already discussing with my Executive team how we can reinforce this and build on the positive attitudes people came away with.

 Grant

 

     I just thought that I would say thanks for the session at Victor Harbor during this past week. I did not get much time to speak with you (I was the one that has lost nearly 17 kgs so far) but I started this as a result of attending a previous session you gave in Adelaide.     

     I now am getting better at keeping myself fitter and stronger and I am glad that I have because I would have been embarrassed in my previous state trying to do your exercises and stretches. I will continue my fitness routine and introduce some of the things you taught us with my goal being to lose a further 15 kgs.

Mark

 

     This was an excellent seminar although it knocked me around a bit and it was a good thing to have the weekend to recover.

     Excellent presentations, simple, interesting, well delivered and very beneficial from both a professional organisational perspective and personal nature.  People on the course could relate to just about every issue covered. It was great to do 'team things' and meet new people.

     This is a big step (change) for the Dept in projecting the benefits of fitness and a worthy-cost effective way of developing-improving workforce sustainment (and is particularly relevant to our ageing workforce).

     I think the big message WAS - that today …'people are getting older younger!'  due to lifestyle -health aspects or as JFK put it 'the softening process of our civilisation'.

     I believe there are opportunities to extend this approach to enhance the fitness of the total workforce as part of the Depts workforce strategy which will reduce overall costs (less absenteeism / compo claims due to health) and boost productivity (reduce presentism) and enhance retention (keep people engaged longer) and recruitment (of older experienced workers - workers who want to work in an organisation which values staff in new ways).

John

 

  

 

 

 

 

Here's what else they said.

 

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 Very well presented, excellent information.

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 Really good. The diet component was good to focus in on how poorly disciplined I had become. Excellent views on the body: particularly simple remedies to 'standard' health issues.

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 Absolutely fantastic. Love to come to the AIS for meals every day. Great speaker. Humorous.

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 Brilliant

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 Thanks for a great course. I got a lot out of it and agreed with so much you said. ... It should be a course everyone does.

10.

 Great! Good mix of theory and activity and being able to apply it to yourself immediately is the best part.

10.

 Very well thought out. Constantly moving and thinking.

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 A great course that will have an impact on my health.

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 A 'must attend' - very6 rewarding and enjoyable.

10.

 Fantastic rapport straight away. Instinctively knows audience.

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 An excellent activity - very valuable to self, staff, family and friends

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 Outstanding, would like to have attended this seminar years ago.

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 Very Good

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 Fantastic

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 It was great and very motivating

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 Very motivating - worthwhile

 

  

 

WHY BOTHER?

 

People often ask me 'Why would you bother to run a corporate healthy, fitness and wellbeing program.'

 

The simple answer is because it pays.

 

Fun

 

All work and no pay makes for a lot of dull Jacks and Jills. Workplaces need some life, some enjoyment. Who wants to work in a place that's deadly serious all of the time. It's not sustainable. The BIG BANG can fix this one

   

Morale

 

I see a lot of workplaces where the morale is so low you could parachute out of a snakes backside and still free fall! The BIG BANG can give morale a big lift in one fell swoop.

 

 

Enjoyment Of The Company

Of Work Colleagues

 

What do they say? 'It's hard to soar with eagles when you work with turkeys.' When people  spend an enjoyable, active day in the company of their workmates there's a good chance they'll get to know them better, see them in a different light, start to enjoy their company. All it takes is a bit of time. The BIG BANG can look after that one as well.

 

NOW FOR THE SERIOUS STUFF

 

Absenteeism

 

Take a look at your absenteeism rate. If it's more that 4 days off per person per year you've got a problem. It's money walking out the door. The BIG BANG can lead you down the track to less days off.

 

Presenteeism

 

Take a look at your presenteeism rate. The measure I use is the Health, Fitness and Wellbeing Profile. Click here to complete the profile yourself. When the average score of all the people in your organisation is over 50 you know you've got a presenteeism problem. The lights are on burning up electricity but no-one's home. The BIG BANG provides people with a wake-up call to start looking after themselves.

 

AUDIT REPORT

I'll provide you an audit report of your organisation's presenteeism rate.

 

Workers Compensation

 

Take a look at your workers compensation premiums. If your staff is mainly office bound it shouldn't be costing you much more than $700 per person per year. If it is they're not fit and healthy. It's hard to get injured driving a desk! Same with people who work outside. Most of them sit down on plant and equipment these days.

 

Your staff have to be fit for work. How fit do you have to be to drive a keyboard or a truck? If your staff aren't fit you can be pretty sure they'll start slapping claim forms on your desk, alleging their personally generated body system dysfunctions are work-related injuries. Their doctor and your insurer will vouch for them. Do you really want to become a branch office of Medicare?

 

I'll show you how you can put up a firewall between the personally generated body system dysfunctions and the genuine work-related injuries - starting with the BIG BANG.

 

Retention

 

Take a look at your retention stats. In this day and age you can't afford to have people hanging up their keyboard because they feel worn out - at 55! For starters we're running out of people to take their place. Then there's the high cost of recruitment. I've told you before that people are getting older younger. You can reverse that process, starting with the BIG BANG.

 

CORPORATE OBLIGATION

 

If you want to take fit and healthy people out of the community you've an obligation to give fit and healthy people back to the community.

 

In the mean time stay tuned, highly tuned and remember there's more to the bottom line than a set of numbers.

 

If you'd like me to send you a copy of my ebook 'Best Practice in Occupational Health, Fitness and Wellbeing' click here.

 

Regards

 

 

John Miller

 

 

It's a big ask expecting to stay healthy without keeping yourself fit.

It's a big ask expecting to get better by having someone do something to you; sooner or later you have to do something to yourself.