Creating a Culture of Employee Wellness
More and more results are coming to light showing that wellness programs tailored to employees are making a difference in the bottom line. During these economic times it is more important than ever to have healthy, productive employees in your organization.
Workplace wellness services offered by Embodied Health, LLC will teach your employees healthy habits for their workdays and personal lives. With all of these benefits, can your company afford NOT to have a wellness program?
Lucinda A. Pepper has worked with diverse bodies and pain conditions over the last 14 years. She will help your employees create wellness through massage therapy, yoga, breathing, and stress reduction techniques. Contact Lucinda to learn more about bringing a workplace wellness program to your company.
Workplace Wellness Seminars
Whether it is a brown-bag lunch seminar or a special event focusing on wellness, consider inviting Lucinda Pepper of Embodied Health to present accurate, timely information on wellness to your staff. Here are some examples of seminars Lucinda Pepper has given:
Eliminate Pain Naturally! Self-Care Strategies for the Workplace: Washington County-Stillwater Gov. Center, Cottage Grove Service Center; City of Oak Park Heights
Yoga + Movement @ Work: Washington County, Cottage Grove Service Center
Shape Up With Yoga: University of Minnesota, Agronomy Department
Relaxation Through Yoga: Girl Scout Council of the St. Croix Valley, Annual Meeting of the Leadership Group
On-Site Massage Therapy
All you provide is an area for the massage to take place, such as a conference room, office, or break room. Lucinda Pepper brings the supplies and the hands that help your employees relax! Massage therapy is a great incentive, performance reward, and a wonderful program to offer weekly or daily to enhance productivity.
Research has shown that employees performed more accurately on math tests after a short 15-minute massage session, which increases alertness and memory.
After a couple of weeks of regular massage sessions, employees experience a decrease in stress-related illnesses and and increase in immune response.
On-site massage can address the symptoms of ergonomic and repetitive use stress which often result in reduced productivity due to discomfort and pain.
Workplace Yoga Classes
Yoga gets staff moving and combats the effects of a sedentary desk and computer-oriented job. Yoga programs at work create a community among employees who seek to increase their levels of fitness and wellness; a community that carries into the workplace long after yoga is over.
Yoga strengthens the cardiovascular, respiratory and immune systems, resulting in healther, more fit employees and decreased instances of absenteeism due to stress-related illnesses and non-specific pain conditions
Yoga restores muscular balance to imbalanced areas, reducing instances of ergonomic stress and repetitive stress syndromes
Yoga helps people to connect with who they are, meaning they bring more authenticity and genuine happiness to their workdays
Yoga provides a quiet space for employees to reflect, which reduces mental/emotional stress and increases clarity, memory retention, and mental focus
Workplace Wellness Tools & Statistics
Tools
"The
Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index has been developed to provide the official measure for health and well-being. It's the voice of Americans and the most ambitious effort ever undertaken to measure what people believe constitutes a good life." This website is valuable to business that want to track the health of the nation and see how the health of their employees matches up. Tools include daily, monthly and annual well-being reports and a survey tool you can administer to your employees. You can also find speakers and other resources for your corporate wellness events.
Steps to a Healthier Minnesota has introduced a
Workplace Wellness Toolkit that you can use to identify needs and create your customized workplace wellness committees, initiatives and programs.
The
Wellness Council of America has an excellent list of benchmarks and benefits related to developing a wellness team and implementing wellness programs. Welness Council of America also presents multiple levels of awards nationally to workplaces that place a priority on wellness. Since 2007 only ONE Minnesota workplace has been recognized at any level of the WELCOA awards - that needs to change!
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