Since October has been deemed Healthy Workplace Month by Excellence Canada, it only seems logical that our four-part series for October is Creating A Healthy Workplace. As usual, we will be looking at what strategies can be used in each of your four rooms: your Mentally Fit Room, your Emotionally Fit Room, your Physically Fit Room, and of course, your Spiritually Fit Room.
We all know the benefits of a healthy workplace. We know that a happy employee is an engaged employee. We also know that more than ever people are stressed out, it seems we have so much dark news in the media, and we all know people who are juggling with stressful things right now. In my humble opinion, I believe the responsibility of a healthy workplace resides with their leaders and the team itself.
Out of 10; 10 being high, where would you rate how consistent your organization is regarding implementing healthy workplace strategies? Do you send in reinforcements only once everyone is in the burnout stage? Or do you do consistent things to make sure employees never reach the burnout stage?
I’m going to share a few things with you. Feel free to copy and paste and share with your team. Check out the video down below in which I expand further on these points.
- Are you doing wellness checks?
- Are they familiar with the resources available to them around wellness? E.g. your Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Are you going to the source and finding out what they are struggling with? E.g. financial, meal planning, healthy snacks in the workplace
I am inviting you to revive the Wellness Committee and to KEEP IT SIMPLE. Part of it is to have leaders do to their teams and find out what the top three stressors are. Maybe it is finances or weight loss, or feeling like there are too many expectations on them in the workplace. As a leader, you want to know that. You want to know that as a colleague. Only once you know what these issues are can you bring in a committee that will work to bring in the necessary resources.
Some organizations have really embraced this concept and even have employees leading these support communities to address what their employees are struggling with. We need this. We need people to feel like they matter. We need to meet them where they are at.
This is where retention happens. This is where attracting new team members comes in. This is where engagement begins.
I’d love to hear some of the cool things you’ve implemented based on these or your own strategies so we can share it with others.
Have yourself a beautiful day.
And remember…
You are a POWERHOUSE.
Cate
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