July 4, 2022

Episode 34: Setting Up An Employee Wellness Program

Episode 34: Setting Up An Employee Wellness Program

How to retain employees? Setting up a wellness program and encouraging them to learn about health and wellness. Empowering your employees to take care of themselves will improve your business.  Do not miss these highlights:

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Functional Medicine Business Institute Podcast

How to retain employees? Setting up a wellness program and encouraging them to learn about health and wellness. Empowering your employees to take care of themselves will improve your business. 

Do not miss these highlights:

01:58 The three advantages of giving incentives to your employees.

02:48 The reasons to promote well-being in the workplace - Increase productivity and motivation - Bring teams together and build morale - Decrease work-related stress.

05:53 A great way to start a wellness strategy is by slowly rolling out your ideas so that your employees won't even realize that you're starting to initiate this wellness program.

07:19 Encourage work-life balance- Let them take downtime.

11:31 Encourage your employees to get up from their desks, move around and take breaks - Have them get up, walk around and talk to somebody.

12:45 The ideas of workplace initiatives - You could have an official wellness program, have healthy food be brought in, and allow them to take advantage of any of the things you have in the Office for free.

14:57 How to encourage your employees to exercise.

16:55 Offer them flexible hours - It helps to reduce burnout.

18:46 You could also pay for courses for them. Educate your staff, the more educated your staff is, the less work it actually is for you. 

19:16 Look at their nutrition and eating habits. 

21:32 Look at their emotional well-being and distress, so your employees can promote health, healthiness and happiness.

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