Corporate World - You know you need this!

While most corporates have embraced the idea of fitness being part of the work culture, to precious few are actually doing it right. There are some companies who are getting their fitness focus bang on and thats great! Thank you for making the effort and investment to get it right.

Others look like as if they have just just thrown some 'fitness room' in which they call a 'gym,' most of the time to satisfy their own conscience. Its very strange because most of the time the gym hardly has anyone in it!

I have usually noticed most people in corporate gyms usually just go on the treadmill or cycle and thats about it. for companies that are screaming about 'Cost- Cutting' I would wonder why they spend thousands for that kind of work when they could have just let the employees have time to go for a run around the office building or rented a bunch of cycles. It would have saved them at least a few hundred thousands rather than an entire space being 'unproductive.'  That to me is amusing since they expect their employees to be productive and overperform at every minute and hour. 

Lets get this straight. The people are what keeps your company up. If your people are healthy and strong they will not fall sick. That means less absenteeism. Less absenteeism means more productivity. Fitness is vital to your employees health and that does not mean sticking a gym which is not being used somewhere in the premises and running some marathon competition once every six months.

Real fitness for the corporate is when the most relevant issues that need to be addressed for all your employees are addressed and sending out ways that can practically help them. That also includes getting the right fitness program for them, the right nutrition, the right exercise, the right education on fitness that pertains to them and more importantly how to keep the right frame of mind and destress. Effective programs can be done in 30 minutes. Studies have shown just 15 to 30 minutes of exercise boost productivity.

When was the last time you actually got professional help to address those issues and FOLLOW-UP with the employees? Or did you drag them for another so called seminar in which none of them were interested to go for and expect them to meet EOD targets? 

Fitness is important to your business. You can't afford absenteeism. You can't afford bad backs You can't afford hurting necks and shoulders. You can't afford not being able to keep your staff mentally happy. They are your staff! They are people. treat them like people and not like cattle. 

Please remember this. If you take care of your staff, they will take care of your business and your clients. You have got to empower them to do what they have to do. 

Corporate World you know you need this!! Get working on it! So how are you going to do it? Get a good fitness company to handle the fitness for you or at least a fitness trainer/coach. Don't scrimp on the money here. You will end up making and saving a lot more. If you want a fancy gym thats great. If you don't want one, thats great too. Just get a decent basic one but have a good fitness company or trainer who will take care of your company's fitness issues or at least you on how to get it done.