![]() ![]() I believe a healthy company is a happy company. I’m excited we’re looking more holistically at ourselves and each other. We’re starting simply: by saying you can choose a physical goal or one of Ramsey’s other six spokes of his wheel. We’re coming back full circle (or wheel) to Lynn’s original plan – not limiting ourselves to the purely physical aspect of our goals. This way, if you accidentally trip over a tray of donuts at Krispy Kreme one week, you can get right back at it the next week.īut last month Deidre realized it wasn’t enough. So we switched to a weekly plan – $12.50/week – and we pay out monthly. I’m going to do yoga invented by professional wrestlers.Įach month, Dee and I pay a $50 gift card of the team member’s choice if they successfully accomplished their goal. We gave one mulligan-day – meaning if you blew it one day, you could get back up on the horse without penalty… Our first rethinking…īut what if someone blew a couple days within the first ten of the month? There was no real incentive to continue to participate.We measured and rewarded personal goals and helped each other stay accountable.Įach month, each team member would select a physical goal: We renewed our focus early last year but only on physical health. Here, Dave Ramsey talks about Zig Ziglar’s Wheel of Life:Īs Lynn transitioned out of the company and moved to South Bend, we lost focus. Like many smart people, Lynn realized that while physical challenges are great for company bonding and overall health improvement, there are other areas (in Lynn’s case for us, intellectual and spiritual) that comprise the holistic concept of wellness. We chose-one at a time-a physical, intellectual, and spiritual metric for which we wanted the rest of our company to hold us accountable. It can cause you to fall asleep at the wheel of your financial life. (Lynn’s currently helping out in the Marketing and Communications department at The University of Notre Dame, and they’re lucky to have her!) Our company started in 2014 with my sister and then-Chief-Plate-Spinner Lynn Peisker creating one for us. Lynn’s original wellness plan for our company, circa 2014 $225,800,000,000.00… to quote Keanu Reeves, “Whoa.”īut… in everything I’m reading and researching, I’m mostly seeing references to and an emphasis on physical health. These corporate programs, funded in part by the future-up-for-grabs Affordable Care Act, allowed companies opportunities to help with exercise, smoking cessation, diabetes prevention, etc.Ĭertainly these are noble pursuits – according to the CDC in 2015, absenteeism from illness and injury cost US Companies $225.8 billion dollars annually… wait, let’s not abbreviate that… Industry experts said that figure now could exceed $8 billion.” estimated that corporations spent $6 billion on wellness in 2013. ![]() ![]() According to a 2013 RAND Corporation article cited in a 2016 Chicago Tribune article: “ A study from the RAND Corp. Statistics vary, but what is certain is that Corporate Wellness companies have become big business. Does your company have any kind of wellness plan? If so, does your plan focus on more than walking and/or losing weight? Does it matter? ![]()
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