Reasons Why Corporate Wellbeing Programmes Work

We completed a wellbeing programme for one of our clients this afternoon. We reviewed the progress that participants made during the programme and awarded prizes to those who had been most successful.

The entire group made a fantastic effort to engage in their wellbeing and think about the behaviour changes that would really make a difference to their personal and professional lives. Below is a summary of the changes they made, and the benefits they experienced by making these changes. It’s quite a long list and it illustrates brilliantly how effective wellbeing programmes like this can be.

It makes you think how great it would be to work in an organisation full of people like this operating in an environment where everyone is thinking about how they look after themselves and their colleagues, and all are experiencing positive, tangible results from just a little extra focus on this key area of their lives.

Consider how results like these would affect your organisation and the people within it, and if you’re in a position to help set up wellbeing initiatives, think about how you can put them in place sooner rather than later. There’s nothing to be gained by delaying results as positive as the ones we witnessed today.

Changes the group made:

· Increased exercise

· Increased fruit intake

· Increased vegetable intake

· Decreased coffee intake

· Design of a wellbeing programme for their team

· Increased nuts and seeds as snacks

· Reduced consumption of biscuits

· Implementation of regular eating habits

· Drink more water

· No more skipping meals

· Thinking about the relationship between food and energy

· Taking breakfast regularly

· Reduced alcohol consumption

· Applying a finishing time at work

· Adopting a more positive attitude at home

· Managing technology such as email and telephone in a more productive way

· Reduced smoking

· Stopped smoking

· Taking short breaks through the day

· Reduced consumption of cakes / sugary / fatty snacks

· Increased ‘me’ time

· Decreased weekly working hours

· More time for reading

· Adopted personal food strategy

· Actively managed sleep routine – quality and quantity

· Block out time for self and team reflections

· Taken up a new sport / activity

· Created a healthy snack routine

· Joined the gym with friends

· Reduced TV time

· Increased family time

· Changed portion size of meals and snacks

· Started taking children to school

Benefits experienced by making these changes:

· Feel healthy again

· Feel slimmer and fitter

· Family following good example

· Colleagues following effective leadership

· More time for family / friends

· Quality time with family

· Increased free time

· Better quality relaxation time

· Reduced stress levels

· Feel more relaxed

· Feel Calmer

· Increased energy

· More consistent energy through the day including evening

· Weight loss of up to 5kg

· Improved patience / tolerance

· Control of blood pressure

· Reduced stress, not shouting in the office

· Feel fresher

· Feel more in control

· Positive impact at work and at home

· Smile more

· Feel less nervous

· Better balance between work and personal

· It feels good

· Lightest I’ve been in 5 years

· I like being fit

· Feel more human

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