Announcing that your corporation intends to begin a new wellness initiative can get a very mixed bag of reviews. Some employees–the ones who already have healthy habits and are pursuing their own fitness goals–may be enthusiastic and hopeful.
Others, who perhaps have struggled more with chronic disease or difficulty with exercise, may initially react with discouragement and even annoyance. They may feel that they have tried dieting and exercise and it hasn’t worked for them, or that they are too stressed and busy to bother with the unnecessary attention to their health.
The more employees who eagerly participate in workplace wellness programs, the better the outcome will be, and the better the ROI for the initiative. But how can you ensure that the employees who need the initiative the most will have the motivation to participate fully?
One excellent tool to build anticipation and infuse motivation is to hire a healthcare keynote speaker who specializes in using employee wellness to create organizational wellness. An excellent keynote speaker can make wellness achievable by offering actionable steps and habits that will lead all employees to better health and improved performance.
New and Improved Wellness Initiatives Should be Introduced with Optimism and Enthusiasm
When a new wellness program is introduced, or an existing one is restyled, the hope is always to increase participation and to improve the engagement of participating employees.
But if your employees react with pessimism or skepticism all this effort may be for nothing. You may find that your employees don’t consider the goals to be achievable for them, or that they resent the implication that their health is anyone else’s business in the first place.
Even a new reward structure can add to resentment and frustration.
How can you overcome these negative reactions?
This is where a great keynote speaker can come into play.
A keynote speaker with excellent acumen in both medical expertise and engaging speaking can reframe health goals in a way that all audience members recognize as achievable and worthwhile.
He may be able to reframe the idea of gut health from some ambiguous and poorly defined concept to a real health benchmark that can be easily improved by a few simple changes in daily habits.
He should be able to create a picture of the holistic health of the body, and how this impacts the brain–effecting performance and mood.
He can even give hope for control and reversal of chronic diseased by means of simple changes to daily habits. Building in things like light exercise, fresh air, and even a few simple dietary changes can create lasting benefits and turn back the progress of many diseases.
Hire a Healthcare Keynote Speaker For your Next Corporate Event
If you are discouraged about employee engagement in your current wellness initiative but unsure how to create the change you need, call Dr. Partha Nandi and schedule your next corporate event.
He will help you create a plan to use your event as a launchpad for company wide change, and get all of your employees excited about improving their health.
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