miller Health Occupational Health and Fitness

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106.1 EDRC MAY 2007

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NEWSLETTER

FACT SHEETS

John Miller conducted a Health Management program for The Group in May 2008.

142 participants, 29 men and 213 women completed the following profiles: -

■ Health, Fitness and Wellbeing

■ Stress risk

■ Career satisfaction

The results are presented in graphic format, with commentary.

HEALTH, FITNESS AND WELLBEING PROFILE

Classification of average scores: Excellent - less than 40. Good - 41 - 50. Fair 51-60. Poor - over 60.

This profile is described as poor. The average score was 75. Anyone scoring more than 80 is putting up with a lot of 'background noise'.

HEALTH CLIMATE SURVEY

Based on scores received in the Health, Fitness and Wellbeing profile we've compiled a Health Climate Survey. Scores on each item have ranked - the higher the score the worse the problem. We added the scores for each item. The results appear in the table below.

Symptoms/ issues / concerns	% of people scoring over 5
Crook back, sore shoulders	56
Poor sleep	53
Lack of energy	49
Under appreciated at work	42
Work-life balance	39
Overweight	36
Low level of fitness	36
Wrong job	36
Headaches	34
Anxious	33
Financial status	32
Depressed	26	6
Reflux, unsettled stomach	24
Unhappy family life	23
Grinding teeth	22
Itchy, rashes, psoriasis	20
Frequent colds, flu, sinus	19
Irritable bowel, constipation etc	19
Alcohol	18
Snoring, sleep apnoea	16
Shortness of breath from asthma	15
Elevated blood pressure	15	11
Caffeine	15
Elevated cholesterol	13
Shakes, nervous mannerisms	10
Mouth ulcers	9
Furry tongue, thrush, tinea,	8
Chest pain, palpitations	6
Elevated glucose	4
Smoking	4	4

STRESS RISK PROFILE

This is a patchy result.
This is another patchy result. Too many people are not sleeping as well as they would like. The first casualty of anxiety and low levels of fitness is sleep.

Not good at all. Paul Pearsal in his book Superimmunity' said you need a 21 day away from home holiday every year.

Not particularly good. A lot of people are not keeping themselves in the shape they'd like to be in.

This is a moderately good looking graph.

A patchy result. More people could take time off to switch off and get outside in the fresh air.

This is a good result. No one on their death bed ever said 'I wish I'd spent more time at the office.'

Too many people are too busy to look after and nurture their Self.

Very few people meditate. The reasons to do so are compelling.

Family life satisfaction is good for most people, but not for a few. The tail suggests the organisation could encourage staff with family problems to go to the employee assistance program for advice and support.

Average score: 58. This is indeed an average sort of a score. People could do more to look after their Self. I recommend that people scoring less that 50 spend time with a counselor or life coach, or go to a personal development weekend to get themselves centred and grounded on looking after their Self.

CAREER SATISFACTION PROFILE


	A patchy score, the tail is too long. 6 people didn't know what they wanted to do when they grew up! My encouragement to people who scored less than 6 is to move heaven and earth to work out what it is they really want to do - and develop a plan to get there as soon as they can.	This is a fair to middling result. Good managers can find out who the people scoring less than 7/10 are and assist them to move to the job they'd really like to have - whether it's inside the organisation or out.

	This is a high stress score. Work is probably about as stressful as you want it to be. Walk away. Each morning when you get to work, set an alarm clock for 30 minutes before you want to leave. Make appointments for your Self that allow you to get on with your work unhindered by interruptions.	A poor result. Too many people are not focused on their careers. No wonder 36% said they were in the wrong job and 42% said they were under-appreciated at work. If you're not focused, you're going to have to put up with whatever comes your way; it could be a tsunami!

	This is a fair to middling result. Those scoring 5 or less are the worry. Of all our profile questions, this one is usually the worst answered. In this organisation there's some extra work for managers. For staff our recommendation is always to manage up. A lot of managers are too busy getting on with their work to spend time managing down. So, take your manager out for morning tea once a month and talk about yourself and your work. Get some regular feedback. Don't wait for the big one at the end of the year. If you manager doesn't have time for you, get another one!	With only a few exceptions, these people are pretty satisfied with what they sell themselves for. If you're not happy, you're selling yourself short. Log onto Seek and get your suit dry cleaned!

	This is a fair result. 30% scored 5/10 or less. With these exceptions, work is valued and appreciated.	It's a pretty good score but the aim is to have all staff recording a score of 7 or more. Plus it's every manager's job to find out who the people are who really think the organisation is uncaring - and do something about it.

	This is a very good score. People like working with each other. We rarely see scores like this.	With the exception of the disaffected few, this is a good morale score. It's generally the case that our morale is good when my morale is good.

Average score: 63. Compared with other groups, this is an average sort of a result. Ideally the score should be over 70. For people who score less than 70, there is the whiff of a suggestion they're not in the right job. The situation is certainly redeemable. For people scoring less than 60 the smell is becoming distinctly stronger and below 50 it is very strong. Being in the wrong job sucks all vitality out of you. 37% of people scored less than 60/100. There's work to do here.

The Buddha and Confucius both said ' Find the job you'd love to do and you don't have to do another days work in your life.'