Although paramount to optimal health and performance, nutrition is often omitted from corporate wellness programmes. It is also one of the vital areas often neglected by individuals. Considering it can have such huge implications on cognitive ability, energy levels, metabolic health and mental wellbeing, it is crucial to support staff to eat well.
In this article we’ll look at two key areas that will have an affect on performance at work and ways in which you can help your staff to thrive.
5 tips for wellness programmes in satellite offices
With remote working increasingly prevalent, and with many organisations having a presence in multiple countries, supporting remote workers and those in smaller satellite offices can be a problem. Keeping staff engaged and ensuring smaller remote teams receive adequate wellbeing support can be a huge challenge. Fear not, here are our 5 tips for implementing successful wellness strategies for remote workers and smaller satellite offices.
Corporate wellness programmes: here’s one we made earlier
As our name suggests, at Tailored Fit we don’t believe in one-size-fits-all wellness programmes. Every company is different, so what works for one company may not work for another (however there are often common themes that will be seen from one company to the next!).
So here we will look at some anonymised data gathered at one company, along with the wellness programme designed to improve these metrics.
How to implement engagement survey data for a successful wellness programme
It’s fairly commonplace to have employee engagement surveys that are sent out once or twice a year, but how much are you actually doing with the data? Even if you are taking regular or real-time pulse surveys, it’s important to have a strategy in place for how you plan to implement in response to the data.
So, how can we use the data gathered to achieve insight and inform a strategic wellness programme that is designed to keep staff healthy, happy and engaged?
Is inclusivity in your wellness programme doing more harm than good?
On more than one occasion last year while consulting with companies I heard the phrase “we want our wellness programme to be inclusive”. I fully understand the sentiment; all staff are important and we want them to feel that way. So, let me play devil’s advocate here and propose why I think this mentality is reducing wellness levels and costing companies a lot of money.