John Miller conducts a range of health management programs for corporate organisations. Browse through the selection and if you'd like John to run  something, send him an email or phone (0424) 391 749. You can cut and paste the blurbs below and use them as adverts to email to prospective participants.

Programs include

•     The First Law of Management

•    The Seven Habits of Fit and Healthy People

•    Models of Good Health

•    The Global Back Care seminar

•    Relaxation - Better Sleep

•    Fewer Headaches, More Energy

•    Hourglass Diet

•    Complete Fitness program

•    Work / Life Balance

•    Getting the most out of your job

•    Healthy People, Healthy Workplace

THE FIRST LAW OF MANAGEMENT - Keynote presentation

1, 2, 4 OR 8 HOURS

The first law of management is 'Manage Your Self'. That's a tough assignment.

My Self is craving some time, some attention, some affection and thought. If I can't give these things back to my Self, the Self rebels. The symptom of that rebellion is stress and anxiety, poor sleep, poor health, fractured relation ships, wrong job ...

It's when you find the time to give back to your Self that things start getting better. You get better. Time for exercise, time to eat well, time for holidays and active recreation, time for family, time to sing, dance, laugh and have some fun; time to reflect, meditate and read a book; time for the job you'd really like to do, one that suits your personality, your intelligence strengths and one you're passionate about. Time for every season.

This seminar is all about getting back into equilibrium, finding perspective, living the life you'd like to live, looking after that precious ecosystem that goes everywhere you go.

This is the seminar that's designed to inspire and motivate you to look after your Self. You'll have time to reflect on how well life's currently over ticking over and time to set goals for where you want it to go in the future.

The laws of management

1.  Manage your Self - in the work context this includes managing yourself into the right job.

2.  Manage your boss

3.  Manage the people you work with.

4.  If you're good at the first three, they'll let you manage other people.

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THE SEVEN HABITS OF FIT AND HEALTHY PEOPLE

- 2, 4 or 8 hours

Join John Miller for this inspiring and motivating health and fitness seminar.

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

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

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

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MODELS OF GOOD HEALTH - 2 hours

In this two hour seminar, John Miller provides a range of models which give people a very clear idea of what they need to do to keep themselves fit and healthy.

The models, and the topics covered include

The session provides a good introduction to the other programs conducted by John Miller.

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Join John Miller for this 1.5 - 2 hour seminar opeople who want to protect themselves from musculo-skeletal dysfunction and/or restore poor function to good function.

The Global Back Care Clinic is essential for people who want to improve their musculo-skeletal status. It is a must for people with crook backs, stiff necks, frozen shoulders and sore arms

By attending this seminar you will learn

MOST IMPORTANTLY, you'll learn some of the key exercises you need to do on a regular and systematic basis to get yourself back in alignment. Do that and you'll feel better.

In the junk-medical age it's 'patient heal thyself'. By the end of the seminar you'll be in a good position to know what to do to get yourself back into good shape. You don't need a PhD in rocket, medical or pharmaceutical science. There's no smoke, no mirrors; no lotions, potions, pills or powders; no syrups, strappings or surgery; no crunches, rub downs or electric shocks; no money - just you finding a bit of time each week to do the exercises which will get your body back into alignment.

You'll be glad you came.

You'll receive an interactive work book.

Bring your reading glasses and a pen. Wear slacks. (Don't wear jeans and don't even think of coming in a frock.)

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RELAXATION - BETTER SLEEP

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- 1 hour

The Hourglass Diet is a new model for healthy eating, designed to encourage you to eat in a way that

•    nourishes the cells of your body, and not just fill up your stomach

•    restores key body systems to good health, and keep it that way.

•    has you living closer to your ideal weight

•    has you looking in other directions to satisfy the inner hunger.

I am of the opinion that the Diet Pyramid in its myriad forms no longer provides adequate guidance on how to eat wisely in an affluent society. If it did we wouldn't have the current epidemic of obesity and major body system dysfunction. Eating wisely is fundamental to the health of all major body systems.

This diet is neither a no-fat or no-carbohydrate diet. In fact what it aims to do is get the right mix between fat, protein and the very low, the low and high density carbohydrates, so that you get the essential nutrients your body needs without fattening yourself up.

If you find it easy to put on weight, eat from the top of the Hourglass - steer clear of the refined garbohydrates, the cereal-derived, starch-based foods like bread, pasta, breakfast foods, biscuits and cake, and including sugar.

The diet addresses the key issue relating to the quest to satisfying the inner hunger by over-eating.

Once you've tried out the Hourglass way of eating you will be in a good position to decide exactly how to eat wisely for the rest of your life. Want to know more, click here.

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- 2 hour seminar

The Complete Fitness Program comes in a package that includes aerobic, strength and flexibility exercise.

Abraham Lincoln is credited with saying that we are about as happy as we want to be. Similarly, we are about as fit healthy as we want to be.

For us mortals, the rewards of regular, vigorous physical activity are compelling. On top of feeling better, all the major systems of your body work better. (It does aerobic exercise a grave disservice to limit its effects to the cardiovascular system.)

When it's all boiled down, you don't need a great deal of equipment or expense to improve and maintain your level of fitness. As a minimum, a brisk walk, shuffle or jog, followed by a few situps and pressups and some flexibility exercises will do you a world of good.

Some of the strength exercises can be done without any equipment and the flexibility exercises can be done while you watch television. It's all about strengthening and loosing the muscles designed to keep your bones in correct alignment. Do that on a regular basis and your back and neck should soon be as right as rain.

During the seminar you'll have the opportunity to find out how fit you are.

You'll have the chance to develop your own fitness program and learn some of the key exercises you need to do to keep yourself in good nick.

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- look after your Self: 2 - 4 hrs

How to live the life you'd really like to live.

This two hour seminar is a must for people who want to make improvements to their lifestyle; who want to get a better balance between the work and non-work aspects of their life.

When the balance goes we become more stressed. We can't find time for exercise. We forget to meditate. The tension builds in our personal and work relationships. Our muscles tighten up.

It is a seminar is for people who want to reclaim that balance and the benefits that accrue from it; 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 find out: -

You'll learn about the Great Wheel of Life and the concept of oscillation and what you can do about it.

You'll have the opportunity to set realistic goals for achieving more balance in your life. When you've got that you'll sleep like a kitten.

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- 1 hour seminar

Wouldn’t it be good to have a job you loved doing so much you’d do it for nothing, but which you did so well you’d be paid handsomely?

Join John Miller for this one hour seminar designed to inspire and motivate yourself to have a rich and fulfilling career.

Wouldn’t it be dreadful to climb the career ladder, and on the day of your retirement finally having the opportunity to look over the wall, realize that you climbed the wrong wall?

During the seminar you’ll

•   make an assessment of whether or not you’re in the right job

•   learn the first, second and third laws of management

•   determine whether you’re selling yourself short financially

•   be exposed to some models relating to change and turbulence.

You'll start thinking about getting a job that suits your personality, your intelligence strengths, your right or left brainedness, your interests and passions. Do that and you'll find yourself experiencing flow rather than struggle. 

Discover how, by getting onto the front foot and working in synch with the first two laws of management you can make life at work more comfortable. You'll learn how to get good feedback from your manager.

Things change when you change. Learn how by changing yourself you'll be better equipped to fit into an organisation that's changing.

You’ll come away from the seminar with some goals to work on, and the inspiration and motivation to get the job you’d really love to have.

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GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR JOB

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THE PREMISE

Personal and organizational change go together.

On the one hand, it’s a big ask expecting to fit into an organisation if you’re not changing.

On the other hand it’s a big ask trying to change an organisation if the people aren’t changing.

The Healthy People, Healthy Workplaces program is designed to

The seminar begins with participants focusing on what they want for their

•     health and fitness

•     personal career direction and

•     organisation.

If you don’t know what you want there’s a high likelihood that you’ll be buffeted by the waves of turbulence, not only in the workplace, but everywhere. It’s very difficult to manage change and stress when you don’t have a clear ideas of what you want. And as they say , if you keep doing what you've always done you'll continue to get what you've always got.

The day is divided into three parts

•   Healthy People

•   Healthy Career

•   Healthy Workplace

SECTION I - HEALTHY PEOPLE

I see lots of stress and body system dysfunction in the workplace. Click here and you’ll see first hand the sorts of stress that people are under. (In particular look at the Mind and Body profile and the Stress profile.) In this, the first part of the seminar I take people through several profiles, the Mind and Body profile and the Stress Risk profile.

I collate the responses and provide the group with an audit report, something that looks like this.

I conduct a program along the lines of the Seven Habits of Fit and Healthy People.

I talk about where stress comes from, what it does to you and what you can do to better manage it.

I see lots of unhealthy people. They frequently blame their work for the way they feel, but like most things, the cause of the problem rarely resides where the problem is manifest.

The workplace is  frequently blamed for stress and musculo-skeletal dysfunction because it’s a big, soft, slow-moving target. It’s easy to complain about something at work, rather than complain about something you’re not doing for yourself. Participants need to be aware that the cause of the stress is frequently not at the site where the stress is manifest. It generally comes for a dysfunctional internal locus of control.

During this segment of the program participants will have the opportunity to step back and take a good look at themselves.

SECTION 2 - HEALTHY CAREER

Being in the right job, one that is congruent with your personality, one that suits your intelligence strengths and is something you’re passionate about is the foundation of managing stress at work. If you’re in the wrong job it can be hell on earth. I see lots of people who are in the wrong job. They usually blame their organisation.

Once the foundation is laid there are a few simple laws of work to be aware of: -

1.      The first law is manage yourself

2.      The second law is manage your manager

3.      The third law is work with your fellow workmates.

I emphasize the point that for happiness at work you need to get on the front foot and start managing, yourself, your manager and your work colleagues. If you don’t do that you’ll get shoved from pillar to post.

Completing the Career Satisfaction profile provides people with a very good indicator of what they need to do to better manage their career.

Wouldn’t it be good to have a job that you’d love doing so much that you’d do it for nothing, but which you did so well you’d be paid handsomely.

I’d base this section of the seminar on the Career Satisfaction seminar.

SECTION THREE - HEALTHY WORKPLACE

PARTICIPANT GROUPS

I recommend the seminars be conducted for groups, with their managers.

They’ll come away from  the day with a renewed sense of purpose and group cohesion. Often if people do these seminars on their own they go back to where they’ve come from and keep beating their heads against brick walls (a major cause of workplace headaches!). 

CHANGE

On the subject of change, it’s generally the case that things change when I change. That concept has been around since antiquity. The person I can influence most is myself. Once I’m aware of the mechanics of change I can start to work on myself. It’s amazing how much others change when I change!

The other model I use is that personal change precedes and then attends organizational change. It’s hard for me to fit into an organisation that’s changing if I’m not changing. Conversely, if I’m a manager trying to change an organisation and the people aren’t changing, then it’s like pulling teeth.

By the end of the day participants will have set goals – for themselves and their workplace. A critical question is ‘What can I do to make this a better workplace.’ You’ll be amazed at the responses people will come up with. Most people want their workplaces to tick over nicely.

Once the seminar is over I collate and publish those responses in a report to the team manager or program coordinator.

MY WORK

You can take a look at some of the programs I run by scrolling up the page.

ABOUT JOHN MILLER

I’m a physical educator who’s knows something about health and fitness and has had enough experience working in organisations and managing organisational change to be able to weld these two streams together. Take at look at my CV here.

CONCLUSION

The day provides participants with an holistic look at their life and their work. They’ll be engaged. They’ll set both personal and work goals. They’ll have some fun, work as a group and, as I said earlier, come away inspired and motivated to enjoy their life and their work.

This is the program designed to give workplaces a real shot in the arm.

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.