Occupational health, fitness and wellbeing
newsletter
DECEMBER 2007
FIRST, MEASURE THE RISK
THE SEVEN HABITS OF FIT AND HEALTHY PEOPLE
This seminar forms the basis of an occupational health, fitness and wellbeing audit.
I come to your office and take your staff through a 2, 4 or 7 hour, seminar program designed to inspire and motivate them to keep themselves fit and healthy to the best of their ability.
During the seminar participants complete several assessments which become the basis of health climate survey audit report.
To learn more about this program and how it can dramatically lower your organisation's risk of absenteeism, presenteeism, workers compensation and staff turnover click here.
Click on the cover to purchase a copy of my ebook, How to Fix Up a Crook Back. This is the book you can purchase for your staff.
This is just about the best book around on fixing musculo-skeletal dysfunction. Click on the cover to purchaser a copy.
My back got better after I bought this book, went to the Egoscue Clinic in San Diego and started doing the exercises. Before I did that, I couldn't sneeze or cough without feeling like some one was pushing a red hot poker into my back. Now, whilst I'm not 97% fat free, I'm 97% pain free. Dysfunction gone.
THE OFFER
Feel free to send this newsletter out to your staff.
Send them to this link for some of the key exercises they need to do to keep their back and neck in better alignment.
The occupational Health, Fitness and Wellbeing news in the papers last week was the high levels of absenteeism and presenteeism in some corporate organisations.
In this day and age, any organisation with less than 5 unplanned absences per person per year is doing well.
Above that and there's a problem - probably many problems. In my experience there's a list as long as your arm.
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A lot of people are just in poor shape. Here's one of our Health Climate
Survey reports on an organisation we surveyed last year.
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The problem with being in poor shape is that sooner or later people look for someone to blame. Then the company screen saver drifts in front of their eyes. Guess who gets the blame? |
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A lot of people are in the wrong job. Some of them don't even know what they want to do then they grow up - and they're already 40! When it comes to their careers, a lot of people aren't on the front foot. When that's the case they have to take what's served up to you them.
Which makes it very difficult for managers, particularly those managers who are highly motivated themselves, who want to spend most of their time getting on with their own work and can't understand why those working for them don't have the same level of motivation or commitment. |
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A lot of people don't do the things that unstressed people do to better manage the stresses of life. They can't get away from their desks at lunch time. They can't take a good long holiday. |
SO WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT IT?
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Measure the risk - the easy part
There are ways of doing this, quickly, effectively, painlessly.
I conduct a health seminar - The Seven Habits of Fit and Healthy People - designed to provide people with an understanding of ▪ what's happening to their health, fitness and wellbeing ▪ whether they're doing the things unstressed people do to manage their stress ▪ whether they're in the right job.
During a health management seminar I get people to complete a number of assessments.
I present your organisation with an audit report. Click here to take a look at a range of audit reports.
It's hard to manage the risk if you don't know what the risk is. |
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Manage the risk - the harder part |
THE CAVEAT
If you think you can identify and then fix the problems by running health management programs that are voluntary, think again.
If you do, you leave the most vulnerable people out of the health, fitness, wellbeing and job satisfaction loop. The workaholics, the unfit, the unhealthy and the disaffected do their best to avoid these sessions like the plague.
It's all or nothing - from the north, south, east and west of your organisation. The problems are spread right through it. Often they start in the north.
So can you make corporate health initiatives obligatory? Of course you can. It's an important part of the job, particularly when levels of absenteeism, presenteeism, workers compensation and staff turnover are going through the roof.
THE GREAT CHALLENGE
Getting managers focused on solving problems in these areas is the key to a healthy and happy workplace.
One of the great challenges is to include health, fitness, wellbeing and career satisfaction descriptors in the key performance indicators of managers.
WELL THAT'S IT, ALL DONE AND DUSTED FOR THIS YEAR
In the mean time stay tuned, highly tuned and remember that fit and healthy people don't have to be motivated, they motivate themselves.
And have a happy Christmas.
Regards
John Miller
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