The dawn of a new year is often accompanied by a renewed sense of hope and ambition, as we strive to better ourselves and reach our goals. As an employer, you can play a pivotal role in helping your employees achieve their New Year resolutions. By taking proactive steps to provide the right environment and support, you can have a huge impact on their motivation and success. Understanding how to best support your employees can help boost morale, productivity, and loyalty.
Put health and fitness at the forefront
Most New Year resolutions involve giving up a vice, whether it’s quitting smoking, cutting back on sugar or partaking in Dry January. Breaking such habits can lead to negative withdrawal symptoms that can impact our mood, concentration and energy levels. This isn’t the kind of head space you want your employees entering into 2023 with, so it’s important to create a supportive environment – not only to help them with their resolutions but to maintain workplace morale and productivity.
One of the best ways to combat the irritation and restlessness that comes with quitting a vice is exercise. Improving health and fitness is often at the top of most resolution lists, and it’s also an excellent way to reduce stress levels and distract the body from cravings. As an employer you can support your employees by encouraging them to get involved in physical activities.
With the rise in the cost of living, gym memberships aren’t a viable solution for everyone. At DocHQ we have developed a virtual fitness platform that can be used any time – at home, at a dedicated space at the office or while travelling. DocHQ Personal Trainer uses AI technology to help users work out effectively and accurately by tracking their movement in real time, and features a range of fitness classes – from Pilates to HIIT to cardio. We offer an exclusive deal to businesses who want to support their employees’ health and fitness – learn more here. Our service will not only help your employees to achieve their personal goals but also help increase productivity among the workforce.
Support your team by encouraging safe practise
Many workplace fitness resolutions work towards a team goal. Consider a Tough Mudder challenge or the London Marathon. These are great ways to motivate and inspire team members to encourage each other and do things that they might not do alone. However, physical activities like these may lead to employees getting injured before or during training. At DocHQ, we aim to ensure that exercises are performed accurately to decrease the chance of injury when working out.
Our latest development is DocHQ Physio, which uses the same AI technology as our Personal Trainer program, and specialises in helping users recover from injury. We work closely with expert physiotherapists to design exercises to aid in this recovery process. The user is offered a consultation with a Chartered Physiotherapist, who will create an online treatment plan for their recovery which will be monitored and updated when needed. Our AI technology allows your employee to see themselves performing the exercises and receive real-time feedback on each movement to ensure it’s done correctly. Click here to learn more about our business offer for DocHQ Physio to provide all the necessary support to your employees.
Offer team activities that don’t involve alcohol
In the spirit of Dry January, why not support your employees by encouraging sober after work activities to replace the Friday night drinks. Plenty of healthy and fun activities are available to help increase team bonding and overall morale such as mini golf, bouldering or a meditative yoga class to help them de-stress.
If your team wants to learn new skills, look into what workshops or classes will help your team reach their goals. For some workshop inspiration, check out this list on what classes can help your employee’s mental and physical health.
In conclusion
There can be a lot of pressure at the start of the New Year and although it’s a great time to make changes in work and life, it’s important to acknowledge that some employees may struggle due to factors such as health, work or family issues. When this is the case, it’s important to support employees in any way you can; by creating an environment that supports your employees in achieving their goals, you can have a huge impact on their motivation and success – both in and out of the workplace.
