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Leading Canadian organizations are taking action to alleviate organizational stress at its source. They are adopting a Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion, a balance approach where employee's health is value and is a component of daily business decision to:
1) Increase employee productivity, satisfaction and health
2) Develop a stronger sense of "Team" and corporate culture
3) Decrease Human Resources cost to the organization

This Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion workshop will help move your organization forward to be a healthier, less stressful, place to work.

INTRODUCTION

"Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion is an approach to protecting and enhancing the health of employees that relies and builds upon the efforts of employers to create a supportive management culture and upon the efforts of employees to care for their own well-being."
Note the point about dual responsibility lying with both the employer and the employee. Leading Canadian organizations are implementing Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion based on the National Quality Institute's Canadian Healthy Workplace Criteria. NQI, based in Toronto, developed the criteria in partnership with Health Canada and in association with professionals from the health and safety sector. The criteria provides a logical framework for developing and sustaining a healthy workplace through four essential "drivers":

• Leadership
• Planning
• People Focus
• Process Management

For example: Telus BC, a large telecommunications company with headquarters in Burnaby BC, is another NQI Healthy Workplace Award trophy recipient. Telus BC has identified resilience, change mastery and a corporate culture that supports work/life balance and employee health needs as the key success factors. They determined these priorities through dialogue with senior management, strategic planning sessions, employee surveys and studies as well as industry and national business trends. This company uses the Balanced Scorecard approach to encourage management accountability for meeting healthy workplace objectives and, as such, has experienced a positive change in corporate culture.

NEED FOR A COMPREHENSIVE WORKPLACE HEALTH PROMOTION

Current work and home schedules prevent employees from exercising enough. Current health insurance policies focus on curing illnesses rather than preventing them. Medical research has proven that healthy choices can prevent many diseases. The current system has resulted in steeply increasing group health insurance costs. Also, current budget restrictions force us to think of new ways to increase employee productivity.

KEY FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE HEALTH IN THE WORKPLACE

Current work and home schedules prevent employees from exercising enough. Current health insurance policies focus on curing illnesses rather than preventing them. Medical research has proven that healthy choices can prevent many diseases. The current system has resulted in steeply increasing group health insurance costs. Also, current budget restrictions force us to think of new ways to increase employee productivity.
How does your workplace compare to some of the healthiest places to work in Canada?
Health Canada outlines the following key factors that influence health in the workplace:

• The physical environment: a healthy, well-designed and safe place to work
• The psychosocial environment: a "culture" that supports employee well-being and effective work practices
• Personal resources: having control over your work and health, being able to cope with stress and knowing that there is support available when needed
• Personal health practices: opportunities to make healthy lifestyle choices that support long term health and well-being.
  

BENEFITS FOR A COMPREHENSIVE WORKPLACE HEALTH PROMOTION

The tools are available to help move your organization forward to be a healthier, less stressful, place to work. It takes time and effort but is well worth doing because a healthy workplace is clearly a win/win situation for both employee and employer. Here are some benefits:

• Wellness programs produce healthier employees
• Healthy employees are more productive
• Healthy employees file fewer health insurance claims
• Healthy employees live longer
• Employee group health insurance costs will decrease.

You should consider engaging all levels of your organization in the promotion of the health and wellness of every employee in your organization. The Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion brings you the most practical and pragmatic lectures on corporate prosperity and employees wellness. Your organization will begin to promote the workplace health and wellness strategic. For more information about the lectures...click here.

It takes time and effort to create Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion but is well worth doing because a healthy workplace is clearly a win/win situation for both employee and employer.

We Guarantee Real and Lasting Results!
The Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion Workshop will greatly enhance your company productivity and employee wellness or You will get 100% Money Back.

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