Work, Health and Lifestyle

Work, Health and Lifestyle

Balancing business demands with the need to ensure the health and welfare of employees at all levels is a key issue facing organisations today.

The responsibilities of key personnel, including Senior Management, Management, Sales Teams and Fee Earners, mean longer working hours and increased pressure to deliver organisational success. This has led to higher sickness and absenteeism at all levels, affecting the organisation’s ability to meet customer requirements and increasing the pressure and demands on remaining employees.

Organisations have realised the need to be proactive and address this problem through improved employee advice, guidance and support. MIC specialises in delivering tailored work, health and lifestyle solutions through group workshops, one-to-one coaching and open clinics.

Ann Crowther is one of the worlds leading Fitness and Lifestyle Consultants, with more than 20 years experience in enhancing organisational and employee health. Exercise, nutritional studies and kinesiology are vital elements of a personal portfolio from which Ann has established a relevant, highly flexible, integrated coaching programme of specific requirements to serve the commercial world. Ann has successfully supported organisations including Arthur Andersen and Gloucester Rugby Club, and is the author of the best-selling Lifestyle book ‘Pilates for You’.

Ann says:

'There is a disturbing failure amongst companies to recognise, measure or address the causes of stress, which might range from personal and domestic crises to increased workloads, job insecurity, long working hours and often poor management. Stress in the workplace is undermining performance and productivity in 9 out of 10 UK companies and it is the root cause of absenteeism, accidents, high staff turnover and de-motivation. Each year over 2 million people suffer illness caused by work, around 13 million days are lost and over 100,000 people change their job because of it. All this costs a staggering £4.5 billion a year and yet stress is regarded as ‘part of the job’. Too often companies react to workplace health problems in and ad hoc manner. Occupational ill health and the phenomenon of sickness presence are problems that business cannot afford to ignore’.

MIC can provide Employee Assistance Programmes in the form of employee/manager help-lines and counselling services to help organisations to address this problem