I completely agree with Mah-E’s post regarding obesity; work can have a large impact on a person’s health. Stress can lead to overeating and mental exhaustion can prevent a person from engaging in physical exercise. With all the health risks associated with obesity (as Mah-E mentioned) it’s important that companies make an effort in encouraging employees to be active.
Mah-E had some excellent suggestions for promoting a healthier lifestyle at work but it’s not always easy to motivate employees to follow these suggestions. From personal experience I have encountered some creative ideas for motivating employees to participate in healthy activities. One of the ideas was to motivate people to take the stairs by making a chart to record how many flights of stairs each employee climbed a day. The employees were also grouped into teams so that people who may not be motivated by competition may be motivated by pleasing the team instead.
Another idea is signing the company up to participate in an event such as Edmonton’s corporate challenge. Corporate challenge is an event that is held every year where employee’s of a company form teams and compete with teams from other companies in a number of different sports. The events are usually a lot of fun and teams receive ribbons and medals for winning. The sports range from high endurance sports such as basket ball to low endurance sports such as horseshoes, so anybody can participate.
Not all ideas are successful in motivating employees to be healthy so it’s important that companies come up with many different ways to promote healthy living.Making healthy activities fun and competitive is a good way to encourage people to participate.
http://www.corporatechallenge.ab.ca/dnn4/
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