Imagine a healthy, happy work force that feels management cares! Sick days are rare; personality conflicts and workers compensation claims rarer still. Your workplace vibrates with happy, healthy, appreciated employees and your business grows due to their positive impact.
How healthy is your company? Has the positive environment begun to go a bit south and burnout set in? Do you have an “unwell” workplace? It can be subversive and pervasive: the sick days increase and productivity starts to slip. Next thing you know, negativity fills the environment and becomes an anchor, weighing down your business. What do you do, have a meeting? Take the whole staff to lunch? I’ve found these steps may work for a time, but it’s only trimming the branch of the tree instead of repairing the root. Meaning, you haven’t fixed the problem. It will grow back.
So what can a business owner do? Here are some easy and inexpensive ideas I’ve implemented in my own business. In fact, most of them are FREE and they work!
1) Energize your environment.
The list of companies enlisting the principles of feng shui to increase productivity and prosperity is long. It includes such icons as Coca Cola, Disney, Bed Bath & Beyond and Trump Towers. A couple of quick and easy tips I can give you today are: a) keep all cords well-hidden and eliminate clutter to allow a free-flow of energy (and ideas); and b) add air-purifying plants to the work environment. Dracaena plants are hardy and do well in artificial and low light. Try a lucky Bamboo plant!
2) Check your health plan and remind your employees of their covered alternative health care options such as Acupuncture, Chiropractic or Massage. For example, acupuncture is a frequently covered benefit; and some great “side effects” in addition to the reduction of pain or other symptoms, are reduced stress, better sleep, a stronger immune system and more energy. Other
frequently covered benefits such as chiropractic care will result in less physical discomfort on the job and during non-work activities. Your employees will not only feel better, but appreciate that management cares about them. If you don’t have any of the alternative benefits, ask a local practitioner for a group discount for your employees.
3) Encourage your employees to improve their own health and wellness. Educate them with “Lunch and Learn” seminars, yoga classes or organized activities during lunch or other breaks. Carlsbad Family Acupuncture teams up with Body and Soul Nourishment to offer upbeat and interactive lunches at your location with Q&A sessions. Lunch-time yoga can be done indoors, on a lawn or even while sitting in an office chair. These can be at minimal or no cost to your business, or for a small fee paid by the employee.
So imagine a healthier, happier work force that feels valued by management. Watch the sick days become rare. Watch personality conflicts and workers compensation claims drop. The truth of the matter is a workplace staffed with happy, healthy, appreciated employees has a huge advantage over any competitor that suffers the distraction of frequent sick days, workers comp claims and high turnover. The cost to create a healthy company is small but the returns are huge!
So what can a business owner do? Here are some easy and inexpensive ideas I’ve implemented in my own business. In fact, most of them are FREE and they work!
1) Energize your environment.
The list of companies enlisting the principles of feng shui to increase productivity and prosperity is long. It includes such icons as Coca Cola, Disney, Bed Bath & Beyond and Trump Towers. A couple of quick and easy tips I can give you today are: a) keep all cords well-hidden and eliminate clutter to allow a free-flow of energy (and ideas); and b) add air-purifying plants to the work environment. Dracaena plants are hardy and do well in artificial and low light. Try a lucky Bamboo plant!
2) Check your health plan and remind your employees of their covered alternative health care options such as Acupuncture, Chiropractic or Massage. For example, acupuncture is a frequently covered benefit; and some great “side effects” in addition to the reduction of pain or other symptoms, are reduced stress, better sleep, a stronger immune system and more energy. Other
frequently covered benefits such as chiropractic care will result in less physical discomfort on the job and during non-work activities. Your employees will not only feel better, but appreciate that management cares about them. If you don’t have any of the alternative benefits, ask a local practitioner for a group discount for your employees.
3) Encourage your employees to improve their own health and wellness. Educate them with “Lunch and Learn” seminars, yoga classes or organized activities during lunch or other breaks. Carlsbad Family Acupuncture teams up with Body and Soul Nourishment to offer upbeat and interactive lunches at your location with Q&A sessions. Lunch-time yoga can be done indoors, on a lawn or even while sitting in an office chair. These can be at minimal or no cost to your business, or for a small fee paid by the employee.
So imagine a healthier, happier work force that feels valued by management. Watch the sick days become rare. Watch personality conflicts and workers compensation claims drop. The truth of the matter is a workplace staffed with happy, healthy, appreciated employees has a huge advantage over any competitor that suffers the distraction of frequent sick days, workers comp claims and high turnover. The cost to create a healthy company is small but the returns are huge!
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