Building a Healthier Work Environment, Part 4: It’s Our Business

Baudry Therapy Center/BRIO Wellness

Creating healthy work environments and promoting overall wellness is what we do! In fact, it’s the cornerstone of our business.

It’s often the little things you do at work or home that make the biggest difference in how you feel, act and perform. We give our employees and our patients the tools and education to make healthy decisions every day.

Our personal wellness program works. At Baudry, we:

  1. Focus on the WHY with laser sharp vision. We embrace and live our mission every single day.
  2. Encourage a team workout every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 5:30 am.
  3. Facilitate weekly team discussions and encourage open communication to discuss what is working and not working.
  4. Team up to enter road races. We encourage each other to set and reach for specific race goals. This is part of our “practice what we preach” initiative.
  5. Engage experts to speak to us quarterly on different aspects of our job and our performance.
  6. Encourage our team to post their personal and professional goals on our goal board.
  7. Help our employees celebrate their successes when goals are reached.

Our business (physical therapy/ wellness) is all about healthy living and healthy habits. The Baudry Therapy Center team helps patients daily to deal with injury, pain, or dysfunction. We help them understand their condition, the factors involved, and what they can do to eliminate their symptoms.

Proper tools and education to succeed

Our wellness sessions incorporate education and daily strategies to help our clients work and feel better. From stand up breaks, to 10 minute stretch sessions, to adequate hydration and nutrition, we give our clients the proper tools to succeed.

Most times incorporating more movement is the key. Our bodies are made to move. They crave movement and respond much better when given it.

Open Communication is Key to Growth

Open communication is the best strategy a company can implement to promote a healthy work environment. It helps rid the daily stress which can infect companies. It can also help bring the company back to the WHY they do what they do – their core mission and vision.

At Baudry, we faciliate a weekly meeting to discover what’s working and what’s not. We re-visit our mission and vision and explore how we deliver our service to our clients.

This weekly ritual helps manage the little aggravating things that get under people’s skin and creates stress. Tackling the little things makes a huge differences for employees. It also pays dividends when it comes to productivity.

These meetings allow for open communication of ideas, which spark change and growth. Focusing on how we can work together to accomplish the company goals, the mission, and vision, helps the team grow both personally and professionally.

Need a jumpstart at your company

Baudry Therapy Center can help your company develop a healthier work environement. Give us a call at 504.841.0410 to get a little jump start on your team’s health and watch productivity increase!

Catch up on the last 3 blogs in this series:

Building a Healthier Work Environment, Part 1: Employers
Building a Healthier Work Environment, Part 2: Employees
Building a Healthier Work Environment, Part 3: 15 Steps to Work Healthier

 

 

 

Building a Healthier Work Environment, Part 3: 15 Steps to Work Healthier

15 simple steps you can take every day to work healthier

You can change the way you feel at work with a few simple steps. Try them out and let us know how you feel afterwards. We bet you’re going to feel GREAT!

  1. Keep a regular bed time, allowing for enough sleep every night.
  2. Eat breakfast. Get your day going with some protein and nutrients for the day.
  3. Greet people in the morning. Smile more, be friendly, and ask about how others are doing.
  4. Find a healthy work partner within your company. Challenge each other to find ways to move more.
  5. Set some SMART fitness goals for yourself and share them with others.
  6. Sign up for a run/walk or other event that will require you to train.
  7. Stand when you can, for instance while on the phone, or in meetings with others.
  8. Take a walk while meeting with others.
  9. Take the stairs.
  10. Walk to lunch.
  11. Stretch your back and neck at least 2-3 times during the day, especially if you sit at a desk. If you don’t know how, seek some professional advise like from a physical therapist.
  12. Exercise at lunch time. Take 15 minutes to just move around some.
  13. Take a nap at lunch time. 15 minute power naps can do wonders for your afternoon.
  14. Prepare your healthy lunch. Bring your lunch from home so there are no difficult decisions to make at lunch time.
  15. If you go out for lunch, eat less, and watch the carbs.

There are endless ways to creating a healthier work environment. Start by assessing your attitude about work and take it from there. Find small things you can change and positive things will come.

Need a jumpstart at your company

Baudry Therapy Center can help your company develop a healthier work environement. Give us a call at 504.841.0150 to get a little jump start on your team’s health and watch productivity increase!

Catch up on  Part 1  and Part 2 of this 4-part series.  Next up, how Baudry Therapy Center focuses on health and how we can help you stay healthy!