A new you … and a new view on organizational performance
As we begin a new year in our organizations, we are committing resources to answer the new challenges in order to bring success to the bottom line. One of the key challenges across many of our situations is employee well-being and health. In order to meet our challenges, we need to ensure our workforces are engaged and healthy.
In many cases, we seem to always bring forth the resolution of exercise in our daily routine only to have it dwindle and flame out over the coming days, weeks or, in a few fortunate cases, months. Some folks actually do make it a lifelong way of life, and I applaud those who do.
Ergonomics and stretching is a key element to achieving this success in our organizational setting. I am interested in knowing how many of you out there have formal before-work and during-work stretching regimens in place to engage your workforces and potentially provide a method to improve the health and well-being of the employees. We all understand that you can place programs, documents, checks and measurement systems out in the environment, but without an engaged and healthy workforce, we are still lacking the real key element for any change program’s success.
I am interested in the cultural changes that have taken place as organizations have placed this as a part of the standard work process of each day. In previous environments, I have seen where the day begins with music playing across the organization, people rising to their feet in their workgroups moving to a series of well-designed stretches. Once completed, the group comes together for the five-minute pre-production review and then goes to the line to start the day. Have any of you been involved in this? If you have made the transition to this cultural change, how was it accepted? Do you still have it in place?
I firmly believe that people come to work each day looking for something to awaken their senses and bring joy to their time. This may be just the thing to improve recordable case rate injuries from sprains and strains suffered at work. What a plan for 2009.
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