It’s a time of great uncertainty and a time of worry for many.

That’s exactly why you should be putting preventative measures into place in your company.

What Do We Offer?

We produce a report – The 5 Biggest Risks Covid-19 Will Cause Your Business.

For a copy of this report, get in touch.

However — please see below for the service we offer.

• Doctor lead Covid-19 talks and Q&A sessions 

These cover all the essential elements you’ll need to know about the risk, the spread, the business continuity issues effected by Covid-19

• News Flash: Facebook London headquarters CLOSED because of one case of Covid-19.

Our office sanitising and deep cleaning company have the best reputation in the market for thorough sanitising, they will reduce the risk imposed by the Coronavirus.

• The 5-best ways to increase your immune system health 

Why don’t you run some of these for your team.

We do these in groups of 15 maximum and can run multiple classes at your company.

We only have very limited space due to the panic around Covid-19.

Please get in touch quickly to secure your spot.

Kind Regards,

Tim Garrett.

CEO

Corporate Wellness Co

www.corporatewellnessdubai.com

052 699 3955

Statistics

1. Each employee with a degenerative disease costs your organisation on average $10,000 per year of claims on your medical insurance

2. 33% of the population of the UAE (residents and Expatriates) have a degenerative disease

3. Keiser Permanente, a USA healthcare group focused its program on this group of people with chronic disease and saw hospital visits reduced by 50% and visits to emergency rooms 20% less often.

References

1. https://www.haad.ae/haad/tabid/1516/Default.aspx
2. https://www.haad.ae/haad/tabid/1516/Default.aspx
3. https://hbr.org/2020/01/managing-the-most-expensive-patients

Executive Summary

Definition of a degenerative disease

A disease (as arteriosclerosis, diabetes mellitus, or osteoarthritis) characterized by progressive degenerative changes in tissue

We will deliver a program that uses, technology, holistic lifestyle coaching and our pioneering work on what we call ‘True Health Science’ and apply a blend of these best suited to each voluntary participant to achieve extra-ordinary results.

The Details

To start with its important to explain why the current model of identifying and treating degenerative diseases is flawed.

1. There are incentives for medical insurance and hospitals, pharmacies and clinics to prolong treatment and make it more expensive.

2. Medical insurance is rising faster than inflation and is a major burden on companies profitability.

3. Patients have no where to go to get real advice that will help them. The medical model is based on the foundation of symptoms and drugs. 80% of the benefits for patients with a degenerative disease will come from lifestyle modifications:

   1. improvements in diet

   2. Sleep

   3. Stress management

   4. Digestion, metabolism and improving thyroid health

Of which drugs and medicine is only a tiny part of the solution.

Our Program

Our trained, CHEK holistic lifestyle coaches uses a proprietary method to identify and remove what we call ‘Health Blocks’ from our Clients lives, these may include:

• Poor diet

• Long intervals between meals and snacks

• A diet devoid of the right types of cholesterol which starves the thyroid and is a major component to stress and degeneration

• A diet devoid of health sugars that contain blood sugar balancing potassium

• Psychological and emotional stress imbalances

• Sleep issues, either going to bed too late, not being able to get to sleep easily, waking up at night and not being able to sleep easily again and poor-quality light sleep patterns

• Lack of or excessive movement

• An inverted breathing pattern (chest breathing verses the correct abdominal breathing)

Advice For Companies

You need to get a cohort of vendors to help you as you need specialists: a great holistic lifestyle coach can be found on the CHEK institute website, they are available all over the world and a program that is communicated effectively with buy in from the top.

It has to be voluntary, don’t even consider for a moment to force any participant to take part in this program, I know the potential financial effect can be great but this is people’s lives we are playing with, don’t cross the line, care = culture but pressure = disappointment.

So I think you’d agree that a sustained and consistent 10X effort is needed to create great engagement within a company and we believe having a corporate wellness program can be one key part of that puzzle.

We are not going to cover subjects like culture and business practices,

What we will do is look at how a corporate wellness program can help you achieve the very noble goal of great engagement.

Did you know that according to a Gallup survey…

…19% of your workforce will be actively disengaged? This means they are doing things on a daily basis to make your company less competitive and derail your engagement efforts? That’s not to mention doing as little work as possible.

Did you know the average cost is $3700 per $10,000 of employee wages, that’s considerable and of course in some cases it could be huge, who knows if the famous BP oil spill could have been prevented if it were not for an actively disengaged employee?

In a later article we are going to do the maths, but for now you already know that’s a lot of money.

For this article we are going to focus on arguably the biggest two areas that a wellness program can focus on – Recognition and Rewards.

Let’s delve into recognition, you know its amazing what you can see with a super corporate wellness program, it really is, I guess you must have to be there to truly experience the depth of engagement that the participants experience, and I am not just talking about while they are participants in the wellness program, its their whole work experience that is impacted massively.

A wellness program at its heart is designed to have an extremely positive impact on people and their quality of life and to do that every person needs to be recognised as a mental, physical and spiritual being.

There are 2 ways that recognition will be felt in a wellness program and that will depend on the number of participants. If it’s a large-scale program it will be nearly all virtual – apps and software. If its small scale, generally less than 400 people there will be a lot of interaction between the organisers and the participants.

And…when you get recognition right you are a long way along the road to employee engagement in your company.

In terms of recognising your employees unique contribution and hard work toward your companies goals you may think the one to one interactions within a wellness program win hands down each time but we’ve seen an increasing amount of success using technology to increase engagement.

Let me give you some examples:

• You’re on a program and you hit your daily calorie target for the first time in years, your wellness app comes up with a push notification and what seems like a personal message from the corporate wellness program founder congratulating them on meeting their target and he tells them how proud of them he is, how would you feel about that?
• Your Fit Bit starts shooting starts and rockets because you’ve hit your 10,000 daily steps goal, it always feels good trust me
• You can see your progress over time, you see that generally you are getting better and better and improving week in, week out, your recognised by your app for doing great and that increases your motivation to continue doing well.

When it comes to a program with consistent 1-1 touch points there is a ton of engagement going on in different ways:

• Each person is assigned a coach and when that coach is great at their job and a good person a powerful bond is formed, a bond that can propel someone on to great things both in health improvements and their personal life due to being healthier and happier.

After all they are on an important journey of self-improvement and self-discovery and that person is the conduit for that journey, how do you think that relationship will turn out – deep or superficial?

These two people alone are considered a community and a community is where shared goals are achieved and milestones met and people connect with each other in a positive way, this in turn increases employee engagement and the employee experience in your company.

So, how would that relate to engagement in your company? Well it says a lot about your ethics and care and love for your team, an employer who cares enough about their team to offer such an amazing benefit is seen more and more as family and happy families are full of deep engagement.

So there’s two elements of employee engagement and the employee experience that can be increased considerably by a world class wellness program.

For more information about how we can help you, your team and the people that are under your care – your team get in touch.

Did you know we offer an 105% money back guarantee?

…Minus third party costs if you don’t achieve a 5% reduction in your health insurance premiums and get over an 85% score in your wellness program engagement survey?

Don’t let ‘focusing on the urgent but unimportant’ distract you from contacting us, your teams lives and your business performance is under threat.

Kind Regards,

Tim Garrett.

Corporate Wellness Co

www.corporatewellnessdubai.com

(00971) 052 699 3955

Let’s start with clearing up what engagement is not:

Its not someone who works hard, year in, year out? although that’s one component of course but its not the full story.

Its too simplified and its not going to cut it when your thinking of high performance and an owner mentality.

Let me bring you into the world of the owner and how we think: Sure, we are not 24/7 always on business machines but our life is not far off, the intellectual stimulation and the challenge of business alights our passion and soul and drives us to continually want to do a better job, earn more, make our business more productive, contribute more and create a difference in the world.

We believe business holds an almost spiritual position in the world, requiring a lifelong, never give up mentality that most people frankly couldn’t handle.

Now of course there will be some people that can have that level of engagement when they are employees but there wont be many.

Let’s take the passion driven owner persona at one end of the extreme and an actively disengaged at the other, I would say that an engaged employee is somewhere about 7 to 8 (10 being the owner persona and 1 being the actively disengaged employee)

Back to the definition:

An engaged employee is:

Someone actively and emotionally connected to the companies goals and mission naturally giving more than is expected from him/her.

So that covers the definition of engagement.

Now onto the twist – wellness.

Well-what you say!

Yes, wellness, isn’t wellness completely intertwined with engagement.

Think about it, according to the Excite Institute the key elements that an engaged employee experiences are:

• A sense of community

• Meaning (belief that they are doing something good)

• Autonomy (being trusted to work on ones own without a watchful eye)

• Rewards

• Recognition

• Care (employees need to feel cared for by their employers)

So there you go the definition of engagement and the key elements boiled down for you here right now.

What’s the wellness twist? We are going to go into this in more detail in later articles but let me give you a concrete overview now:

• Maybe the most important part of engagement – employees feeling cared for by their employers:

Wellness is all over this, when your helping people make considerable, often life changing results in their quality of life of course they are going to feel more cared for. In fact, when a wellness program is run by true professionals and the program structure and information that is delivered is world class the results can be spectacular.

When the results are spectacular, and your team transform their lives, they will love you for it.

• Autonomy:

A wellness program should always be delivered to voluntary participants and they are guided and coached but never bribed or coerced into making any changes, they are trusted to do as much or as little as they want to do – another example of autonomy in your company.

• Meaning:

A great wellness program will be on a mission from even before the kick-off event, the heartfelt message is that this wellness program is in fact a mission to help them and their family do more, be more and experience more joy out of life.

Throughout the program (if it’s a great one) the message is that improving their lives will have a significant, positive impact on the community from them being healthier and having more energy, basically the foundation of success is huge, a key point is that these days people’s sphere of influence is every increasing due to social media and its impact.

• Rewards:

On a world class wellness program there are intrinsic and extrinsic rewards of unlimited magnitude, the reward of going from ‘feeling terrible’ to ‘feeling on top of the world’ what better reward could there be.

On top of that there is often an incentive plan in place where companies have the chance to give some amazing prizes to participants.

• Recognition:

Along every step of the wellness program journey recognition is pre-programmed into the very nature of a world class corporate wellness program.

If its one to one with a health coach with them for the whole journey to recognise their great attitude of fantastic results or hard work or even if its an app that recognises their contribution to the program, their team and their future recognition is built into a great program.

• A sense of Community:

This is one area where a wellness program is especially successful.

People are on a journey of bettering themselves and their company and working toward their own goals but also team goals.

Along the way their quality of life gets better and better and the feeling of euphoria goes up and up, it’s a very exciting and uplifting thing to behold, don’t believe me? Well you haven’t been part of a truly great wellness program.

When people are taking part in a steps challenge for example in teams then each person has an incentive to do well – internally and externally and great efforts are rewarded. In situations like this people start talking, setting up private Whatsapp groups to get people stepping and the sense of community is fantastic.

So there you go, the definition of engagement and a wellness twist, I hope you liked the article.

Give me a thumbs up or thumbs down in the comments section and let me know what you thought. Thanks,

Tim

www.corporatewellnessdubai.com

052 699 3955

I had the opportunity to spread what I believe to be the most powerful concept when it comes to the happiness of employees across the globe…

…The role of Health and hormones on productivity and Client happiness.

It was a great conference with prominent speakers including the head of Emaar hospitality division and the CEO of Mashreq Bank.

I look forward to speaking next year.

Kind Regards,

Tim Garrett.

Corporate Wellness Co

www.corporatewellnessdubai.com

052 699 3955

2018 – Talking about the role of hormones and health on happiness. 

Thanks so much for inviting me to speak and may the UAE keep up their great work with happiness, health and contribution.

Kind Regards,

Tim Garrett.

Corporate Wellness

www.corporatwellnessdubai.com

052 699 3955

What does that equate to in your company? Take 2 minutes to do the math now

Total annual payroll for your whole company = ___________ Divided by 19% (the average amount of actively disengaged employees) multiplied by 3.69 (to covert to dollars) = ______________ divided by 37% (the cost per $10,000 of wages)

Grand Total = __________________________

Let’s take a typical UAE company

Annual payroll (100 employee’s x 20,000/month x 123 months of the year = 4,560,000 aed

X 3.69 = $16,826,400

Divided by 37%

Grand Total = $454,767.00 DOLLARS!

That’s a lot of money!

So what Can be Done?? – Let’s get on it right now

For this article – lets focus on care and meaning and how a corporate wellness program can help you work on these areas from the inside out and then how that plays into your employees experience and engagement within your organisation.

Reminder – it WILL require a 10X approach and mindset to achieve great engagement in your company but isn’t worth it, you’re probably spending a 10X amount of effort and willpower, time and resources fighting the disengagement and the associated BIG problems that are popping up in your organisation right now.

Care and Meaning – Making Inroads to your engagement problems with these two critical areas of focus using a corporate wellness program…….

This is one of the most misunderstood areas of employee engagement only because managers have lost sight of what care and meaning is within a corporate setting, the way to clear this confusion is to realise it’s not really very different to care and meaning at home and in one’s personal life.

People have an innate human need to feel cared for and to feel that they are contributing to something that is above purely doing good for him/herself.

It’s the basic human drive that has propelled us through the renaissance, the industrial revolution and into the information age with the countless improvements to the world as we know it.

Kind Regards,

Tim Garrett.

Corporate Wellness Co

www.corporatewellnessdubai.com

(00971) 052 699 3955

Yet, despite increasing evidence of the benefits of corporate wellness programs and growing numbers of companies in Dubai and Abu Dhabi adopting these programs, there are still employers who do not know how to foster a healthy workplace, while there are also some who think that they are “too small” to avail or are afraid of the costs.

But contrary to these beliefs, your company does not have to be in the Fortune 500 to implement a corporate wellness program. You might even be surprised at how accessible and inexpensive these programs are.

Here are three reasons why every company, no matter how big or small, should enroll in a corporate wellness program:

Good health leads to better work performance. Corporate wellness programs have been shown to reduce nonattendance among employees and increase work output.

An employee’s quality of work may be hard to quantify but their number of work hours can be easily measured. In terms of attendance, healthy workers spend more time at work than their sluggish counterparts. Because they are healthy, they are less likely to go on sick days.

Additionally, healthy employees are also more energetic and more enthusiastic towards their job, which makes them even more productive and more efficient.

A healthy body is a happy body. Corporate wellness programs were also proven to boost workers’ morale. When employees see that their company is spending to look after their wellbeing, it tells them that their employers care about them. This cultivates loyalty and responsibility among employees, which, in turn, motivates them to work harder and better.

Prevention is better than cure. Always. Spending a few hundred dollars to maintain your employees’ health can save you thousands, even millions, in the long run.

One of the best and well-documented example of a corporate wellness success story is by the Johnson & Johnson Company. Since their adoption of a corporate wellness program in 1995, the percentage of employees who smoke was reduced by two-thirds while the number of employees who are at risk of high blood pressure dropped by more than half. The company estimates that their wellness programs have saved them over $250 million on medical care expenses.

The success of a company depends on its employees. Investing in corporate wellness programs leads to a happier workplace, increased productivity, and reduced health care costs. Even in companies, health is indeed wealth.

As a result, various types of wellness programs have also cropped up to accommodate the increasing demand. And while more and more companies are now realizing the benefits of corporate wellness programs, there are still some that doubt it because of misconceptions.

A common misconception about corporate wellness programs is that they are complicated and difficult to manage. This is not necessarily true. In fact, the majority of the companies in the Dubai do not have particular positions dedicated only to managing wellness programs. This is because these programs are surprisingly easy to handle and can be managed by a single committee. Most of the time, employers designate the supervision of corporate wellness programs to HR.

Another fallacy when it comes to employee fitness programs is the belief that more expensive programs are automatically better. The amount of money with which a company spends on its employee fitness programs is not the sole determining factor if it is effective or not. As a matter of fact, there is no one definition of a good wellness program. Companies have varied work cultures and very specific needs, therefore there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all type of wellness program.

While there are some companies which provide only the basics (health risk assessments, regular consultations, etc.), there are also some that really go all-in, complete with complex reward systems and quirky health incentives to encourage their employees to adopt a healthier lifestyle.

Some companies may prefer wellness programs focused on preventive services, like biometric screenings. Others may choose to work on physical activities. There are also some companies that concentrate on specific issues, like smoking or alcoholism in the workplace. All of these programs can be effective, as long as it is what the company and its employees need.

Another worry of some workers is that only the already-healthy people can benefit from employee fitness programs. In reality, corporate wellness programs are designed to be inclusive. This does not only limit to being physically fit. Many wellness programs now also incorporate things like emotional and mental wellbeing, and even financial health.

Whether complex or simple, large-scale or small, expensive or low-cost, an effective corporate wellness program should always aim to create a healthier and more productive workplace environment.