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184.Seasonal Strategies for Team Wellness Engagement | Corporate Wellness · The Kathie Owen Perspective Podcast

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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: All right today, we're going to do something special.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: I'm going to give you five seasonal themed wellness resources to boost team engagement.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: As we enter the last quarter of the year and the seasons, I'm going to give you ways that your corporate wellness program can immediately insert these into your programs and let's get into it.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: The power of simple, and these are festive wellness ideas for team engagement.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And that's what we're going to give you today.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: But what's good about all of these is you can pick and choose.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And what happens is like a snowball that you build at the top of a mountain.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And you're going to roll it down the mountain.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: It builds momentum.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: We want to go into the first of the year with this momentum ready to go, especially inside our wellness programs.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: So we are building this snowball right here at the top.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: If you're just starting out with a wellness program.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: These ideas will be simple and easy to start today and at least give your team awareness of what you're kind of working on.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Why it matters and why it can be tough.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: You know, you have limited time and resources.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Sometimes these ideas can seem cheesy to some of the team members, but we're going to work on that.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And balancing fun and wellness with professionalism can sometimes be a challenge, but consistency is key.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: I say that all the time on this channel.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: So, what you really want for your team is you want them to engage in meaningful activities.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: You know, it's important to incorporate corporate wellness into your team and into your company culture.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And you want to create that culture of positivity because you know how it's helped you in your life.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And you want to find quick wins for your team so that they go, oh, that's the person I need to go talk to for my wellness initiatives or what I'm trying to accomplish here.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And then you want to make sure the team feels connected, appreciated and motivated during a time, the end of the year, which is usually a stressful time or stress could be kind of high.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: So let's talk about that.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: I'm going to give you some mistakes to watch out for, especially right after this slide.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: I'm going to give you one big mistake to watch out for.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: But we can tend to over-complicate these activities, these activities that I'm going to give you today.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: All five of them are simple.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: They take less than five minutes to do and incorporate into your team and into your culture.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And you want to communicate the why to the team, why you're doing this.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: What has helped you, why you want this for your team now?
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And don't be inconsistent if something doesn't work right, just the first time you want to stay consistent.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Being consistent and taking consistent action.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Matters.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And your last mistake you want to watch out for is assuming a one size fits all.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And let's talk about that right now.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: So you want to ensure your wellness activities are inclusive and welcome to everyone.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: I was diagnosed with complex post traumatic stress disorder back in 2006, I am a survivor of it, but what happened with me inside a culture that I worked for is they promoted Christmas during the holiday season and during the holiday season, They play Christmas carols on the music system throughout the entire building all the time.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Well, there were songs that actually triggered my PTSD.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Because I had bad memories of when my kids were little and this song would come out and they did all these cute things, but it triggered bad memories of.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Just painful actions that happened and was not good for my mental health.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: At first, I had to learn how to deal with this, but they had these songs blasting everywhere.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Another way that doesn't include everyone.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: When it comes to holidays.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: As I've worked with people who do not celebrate Christmas, they do not celebrate Thanksgiving.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: They do not celebrate their certain holidays.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And you are excluding that culture inside your community.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: If you're going Christmas, it has to be Christmas.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And actually there will be events where.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: It would be Thanksgiving and these team members could not come to this event because it specifically said Thanksgiving.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And nobody took that into account and took into account that these people were left out.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And this is something important as a wellness director, you want to be able to include everyone.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: So I gave you some ideas on how to make sure your wellness initiatives during the, this time of year during this seasonal time of year is inclusive.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: First of all, you want to frame activities around seasons.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Seasons and themes, not specific holidays.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: When we frame these activities around seasons, it includes everybody because it's just that time of year.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: But I have to shout out to my Australian people or people who are in the Southern hemisphere of the world, where they do not have fall right now.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: They are actually in spring.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Yeah.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: It blows my mind.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: We want to remember that as well, but you could still include these types of things because they are going through the same type of holidays.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: It's end of year it's that type of thing.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And we want to be ready for January when everybody wants to get involved in wellness initiatives.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And you want to provide options for participation.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: You want to let them choose if they want to participate in this or not.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And don't let them feel excluded if they don't want to participate.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And you want to create alternative names and options for activities, especially to make sure you're including everyone.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And you want to encourage a personalized, your participation approach.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: What does that mean?
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: That means that that person, every person has individual values, individual strengths, individual weaknesses, and they may want to personalize their participation.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: They may want to take part in your stretching program, but they don't want to call it, um, a Christmas stretch or a Santa stretch.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Well, you.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Ask them to personalize it at to whatever their participation would involved.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And then always, always, always invite feedback and acknowledge diverse preferences.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: All right.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Let's get into the five ideas and the five ways we can invite participation.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Number one a mindful minute.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: What is it?
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: You want to encourage teams to take a one minute of mindfulness each day before meetings?
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Or at the start of their Workday, how do we do it?
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: We provide simple breathing exercises or a gratitude prompt for the team to focus on one minute.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: This is a quick way to decrease stress and improve focus.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Especially as they head into the busy holiday season, And why the mindful minute matters.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: It helps to improve mental health.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: It helps to reduce stress, especially during the holiday season when deadlines and workloads can be high and time and family.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: So we want to balance the work life.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Especially during this time of year.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Number two weekly walk and talk meetings.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: This has kind of taken off, especially in corporate wellness where you could start a meeting with a quick walk around and you could also incorporate walking and talking meetings so that you're getting movement into your day.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And just having this little idea here, it kind of gives you a spark to show you, Hey, we care about your wellness.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: We don't want you sitting all day.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: We want you to start walking and talking and communicating with each other.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Suggest converting one weekly meeting into a walk and talk session, either outside or around the office and encourage participants to use a walking route, either inside or outside, and they can discuss their weekly goals, updates, and even brainstorm ideas.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Why we want to do this.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: It's a great way to introduce physical activity into the day without needing extra time and then fresh air and movement can improve creativity and reduce stress.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And number three, appear recognition wall.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: What is it create either a virtual or a physical wall of recognition where team members can leave notes to recognize their peers hard work and small wins.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: How to do it.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: We use a shared online document or an app like Trello or a physical wall in the break room to start the recognition wall, encouraging shout outs, builds morale and community support.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And why.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Employee recognition is a key to engagement and will help uplift the team as they work through their busiest part of the year.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Number four stretch and refresh breaks.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: What is it?
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Encourage daily five minutes, stretch breaks for the whole team.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: How to do it, share a simple list of stretches that can be done at the desk or in a common area.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: You can also use free YouTube videos tailored for quick office friendly exercises.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And why it matters.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: These breaks help alleviate tension, improve posture.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And refresh energy levels.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Perfect for those long work hours and the end of year hustle.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Number five end of week gratitude reflection.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: What is it suggests ending each week with a five minute gratitude reflection?
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: How do we do it?
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: We ask team members to write down three things they were grateful for during the week.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: This can be personal or work related.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And shared on a voluntary basis.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Why it matters gratitude practices have been shown to improve mood and wellbeing.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Helping employees reflect on the positive as they navigate the busy season.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: One thing I want to state here real quick is all of these incorporate storytelling.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Storytelling is a powerful way to communicate, to communicate your values, to communicate your culture, to communicate what you believe in, and also start opening the door to higher communication at work and higher encouragement, higher team engagement.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And that's what we're looking for.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Number one is a mindful minute.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: In October, we could do a spooky, mindful minute by encouraging the team to focus on letting go of things that haunt their productivity.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Yeah.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Letting go.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: It's so important, and this is a great way to start incorporating how to let go of things that don't matter, you know, control the controllables, that type of thing.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: A thankful minute.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: I thankful mindful minute in November where the focus is on reflecting on something or someone they are grateful for in their work or their personal life.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Again.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Imagine the stories that could be told.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And then in December we can do a joyful minute where participants focus on intention or wish for the season.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Like spreading kindness or feeling peace and joy.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Number two weekly walk and talk meetings.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: In October, you can turn your walk into a pumpkin walk.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: You can get so creative with this.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: She could have pumpkins outside, lined up for the walk, the opportunities are endless.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: In November, you could make it a gratitude stroll while walking each person can share something.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: They're thankful for about a colleague or the team as a whole and having gratitude.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: This can also spark big time storytelling.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And jingle bell walk, provide everyone with a bell to carry or add a virtual bell sound for remote teams, ask each participant to share their favorite holiday tradition, or even how they celebrate again.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Can you imagine the stories that could be told it's just.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: So exciting.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Number three peer recognition wall.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: In October, you could make it a Boo board where employees leave, you've been booed notes for one another, complimenting their work or acts of kindness.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: You could put that in there and then just imagine the recognition that they would feel and how rewarding that would be.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: In November, you could create a thankful tree where each recognition is written on a leaf and added to a tree, either virtual or physical by the end of November, you'll have a beautiful tree full of leaves of gratitude.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And December, you could do a gift of gratitude wall where notes of recognition.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Our gifts left for team members under a virtual or physical tree.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Each note can be shaped like a gift, an ornament, or a candy cane.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Again, please remember to be inclusive and diversity.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And let people think of ways that they may want to, participate in this again, to go back to the participation.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: So if somebody doesn't want to leave a gift under a tree, you could hang it on a wall and it could be their own drawing with what they want to say and how they want to do it.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: But recognition and peer recognition is so helpful, especially as.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Uh, CEO, you're going to see who your strong peers are inside the workforce.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: That's a great way to find your leaders and those who can train others to be more like them.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Number four stretch and refresh breaks.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: We all know this needs to take place inside the workplace.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Especially if you sit all day.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And October you could call it the monster mash stretch, where everyone does a quick stretch to the time.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: To the tune of a Halloween song like monster mash or thriller have fun with spooky theme stretches like zombie arms.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Or witch's broom twists.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: In November, you can call it the Turkey trot break, encouraged light movement and stretches that focus on gratitude for the body.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Like a wing flap stretch arm circles.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Or Turkey, neck rolls to relax tension.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And then in December you could do a jingle stretch, you know, teach simple stretches, like reindeer reaches, stretching arms did the sky or Santa's sleigh side bends and then the end of week gratitude and reflection.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Reflecting on your week and your time is a great habit to get into because you can celebrate your wins.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: You can see what you did.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: You can also.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Celebrate the challenges that you may have overcome.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: In October, you could do a trick or treat reflection, encourage team members to write down one, treat something good that happened.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And one trick a challenge that they overcame for the week.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: In November, you could do a cornucopia of gratitude.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Each person can add something they're thankful for, to the cornucopia, either a real basket at the office or shared virtual space.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: By the end of the month, you'll have a cornucopia of thankfulness.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And then in December you could do 12 days of gratitude for the first 12 days team members can share one thing they're grateful for each day.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And it's just simple.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Remember, these are all simple.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: Keep it simple, silly the kiss acronym.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: I love that.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And when you keep it simple, it's easy and it's easy to implement.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: So.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: At the end of this, I'd like for you to share your wins, either inside the Facebook group that we have on employee excellence in wellness, or you could share it with me on email, you could follow me on social media and leave it in your DMS.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And remember we are corporate wellnesss consultants who help corporate executives build engagement through top workplace wellness programs.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And we are here for you to share your wins.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: All the time on your corporate wellness programs.
• 17:55
  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: All right.
• 17:56
  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: That's my video for today.
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  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: I trust that you found it helpful.
• 18:00
  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: If you know someone who could benefit from this, please share it with them.
• 18:03
  MacBook Air Microphone & FaceTime HD Camera: And until next time I will see you next time, peace out and Namaste Bing!