Happy Life Healthy Business Coaching Program - Benefits

Every year corporations like yours spend millions of dollars on sick and stress related leave. Much of this leave can be avoided simply by investing in a healthier workforce. With depression and stress on the rise, many employees develop a very negative association with their environments, as a result of feeling overworked and under valued. Both depression and stress can manifest in the form of specific symptoms which often lead to poor productivity and sick leave, such as:

• stomach pain

• sinus pain and congestion

• colds and flu's

• digestive problems

• dizziness

• inability to concentrate

Even when unhealthy employees are at work, their level of productivity and creative thinking is significantly reduced. Consequently, not investing in corporate wellness can be a very costly exercise when productivity is reduced on a daily basis.

At Happy Life we make corporate health easy, by implementing the hugely successful 6 week Healthy Business program. Staff meet with the Happy Life team on a regular basis over 6 consecutive weeks. The results of this program have demonstrated stress reduction, increased fitness, reduced anxiety, increased confidence and healthy long term weight loss (see aggregate results for the 2007 Victorian Government pilot to the left).

Who uses Happy Life professional training?

Happy Life professional training in health and well being is very different from other approaches. Our Healthy Business program focuses on empowering staff to create healthy, happy and successful lives with minimal expense and in a manner that can easily be incorporated into their lives. Happy Life Healthy Business coaching has been implemented successfully into organisation's such as Victoria Police, Department of Human Services and Department of Treasury.

For more information on how you can implement the Healthy Business program into your organisation, please completed the form below.

Corporate results on the Healthy Business Coaching Program

The aggregate results of the Healthy Business program implemented into four Government organisation's in 2007 demonstrates that the program provides a framework for participants to eat healthy foods and gradually increase their physical activity in a way that associates feeling good (by increasing happiness, confidence and energy and reducing anxiety and stress) with healthy behaviours. In turn this results in an increase in productivity, overall job satisfaction and happiness. A summary of results is provided below.

TIREDNESS
The results in the figure below demonstrate that on average corporate participants on the Health Business program felt quite tired at the beginning of the program (average on Day 1: 4 out of 5 – feeling quite a bit tired). However, by the end of the program the average tiredness level dropped down to a score of 2 out of 5 (feeling tired only a little bit).

CONFIDENCE
The results in Figure 3 below demonstrate that on average participants in the Healthy Business program felt low in confidence at the beginning of the program (average on Day 1: 3.0 – feeling very little confidence). However, by the end of the program the average confidence level increased to a score of 4 (feeling quite a bit confident).

Work related results

On average participants noted that work had sometimes affected their personal life over the past month, however, by the end of the Healthy Business program, staff reported that it rarely affected their personal life. Staff noted that they rarely took time off work due to physical illness at the commencement of the program and by the end of the program they reporting almost never taking time off for this reason. It was also noteworthy that overall at the commencement of the program staff felt they could often cope with new tasks at work, however, by the end of the program, their ratings increased again, stating they felt they could cope with new tasks most or all of the time.

What Australian staff are saying about the Healthy Business program:

Research has shown that increased happiness leads to more productive and efficient employees.

“The program is what I needed. It got me eating right and having a positive outlook. I have told all my friends and family about the program. I highly recommend it. Thanks”.

“I had to deal with a lot of emotional stuff over the last 30 days but I feel I coped well with it. I am happier and trying to get my stress levels down”

“I liked the self-affirmations and the meditation side of the program and this helped with my stress levels. It made me think about the things that are in my control”

“The snacks were a lot better for me than my usual biscuits and coffee and I felt better for that – I had more energy having less coffee"

Research shows that enjoyment is one of the greatest motivations for continuing an physical activity.

“I thought the program was fantastic. It would be good if there was a book to follow on after day 30”

“I really liked the food and I’m still sticking to the food for lunch and dinner and with a bit of exercise I feel so much better than I did before and happier.  Once you’re used to the routine it works well with less organisation to my previous routine – Thanks”

"I lost cm's from my waist. The program is what I needed. It got me eating right and a positive outlook. I have a 6 and a half year old child and I thought it would be hard, but she really liked all the meals as much as I did. I highly recommend the program"

Research also shows that having strong social relationships is a key to long term health. The qualitative results show those participants who
completed the program noted improvements in their relationships with friends and loved ones.

“Being able to talk openly to my partner whilst talking/ exercising was a great thing! With friends I was able to make sure (and had the ability) I contacted them on a regular basis. It’s great ”

“I socialised a little more than usual with friends and I’m more determined to find time to
exercise now”