Quick wins to create a healthy corporate culture.

1. Can-do culture change

2. Healthy culture = healthy employees
A healthy culture is the holy grail of workplace wellness.
It drives all employee behaviour, habits and beliefs
around health and wellness, and is imperative if you want
to achieve real behaviour change.
We all know the importance of creating a
healthy organisational culture.

3. Culture change is hard
We get stuck on the herculean task of
trying to shift hearts and minds..
To influence the thoughts, beliefs and
values of every single employee is a hard
task indeed.
Yet we also know that culture
change takes time – a lot of time..

4. Change is inevitable.
Change for the better is a full-time job.
~Adlai E. Stevenson

5. What you CAN do
Feeling overwhelmed, we overlook the more
feasible and concrete actions we can take.
Actions like simple changes to the physical
environment surrounding our employees.
These physical changes can have a powerful and
immediate effect on employee health habits.
What you CAN do

6. A new recruit begins at your workplace. They’re all motivated to
stay as fit, healthy and productive as possible.
At their first meeting, they’re offered plates of pastries. At
lunchtime, during a quick 10 minute break between meetings,
they go down to the canteen to find fried foods and chocolate.
The stairs are blocked off due to a lighting issue so they can’t
walk between floors.
They want to go for a quick run after work before they go out, but
there’s no showers and no place to store their valuables.
Slowly, week by week, the motivation to stay healthy deteriorates.
There are often
physical barriers
to a healthy
culture and
healthy habits.
Workplace environment matters

7. Physical barriers to a healthy cultrure
These are
just some of
the factors
you can
consider in
making
immediate
changes to
your work
environment
and culture.
Stairs Showers
Fitness
classes
Do you offer
fitness classes or
an exercise
room?
Snacks
Canteen/
cafe
What food do
you offer during
meetings?
Are your stairs
accessible, or do
you need to use
lifts?
Is there somewhere
for employees to
shower after a
workout?
Standing
Are employees
able to stand at
their desks?
Do you provide
free fruit or
other healthy
snacks?
Does your onsite
canteen offer
healthy food?
Meetings
Can employees use
a fridge, microwave
and food prep area?
Food
prep
Things you can change

8. Biscuits? Really?
Taken in isolation, a focus on biscuits or fruit or stairwell
access may seem superficial. Can a tin of biscuits really
make or break a culture?
Yet if communicated well, these changes can create a real
snowball effect.

9. One change always leaves
the way open for the
establishment of others.
~Niccolo Machiavelli

10. It’s about genuine commitment
It’s not about biscuits. It’s about demonstrating a real,
believable and genuine commitment to health.
Actions speak louder than words.
Physical changes, plus policy changes, will be more
convincing and motivating than any email or video from
the CEO (although inspiring videos are great too!)

11. Find out what you can do - today
Checklist to
change We have a free online questionnaire which helps you identify and
address the physical and policy barriers which are preventing you
from creating a healthy culture.
It’s called Checklist to Change, and it’s free with no opt-in required.
Once you give your answers, you’ll receive advice on changes you
can make right now.
You can get it here

12. Tell us what you think
Once you’ve done the Checklist to Change we’d love to know
how you went with it.
Post on our Facebook page, email us or call us on 1300 90 10 90.

13. Change will not come if we wait for
some other person or some other time.
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
We are the change that we seek.
~ Barack Obama

14. Motivate your employees to better health
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