Hosting bi-monthly or monthly workshops is a great way to bring employees together at one place during one time to educate them on health and wellness in an interactive setting. In turn, this will create effective and positive changes in their health, benefiting the employee and the company. Workshops provide employees with the tools they need to enhance their well-being both short term and long term, which will be shown through enhanced productivity, reduced absenteeism and presenteeism and eventually reduced health-care costs.

Not only do workshops provide vital education and tools which will help improve the health and wellness of employees, but they also show employees that YOU, as an employer, care and are attentive to their health and well-being. The more supportive the work environment, the higher the morale of the employees. High morale in the workplace makes employees want to stay in the company and continue working with you, which increases the retention rate of your company. Aside from increasing retention rates, productivity within the workforce will boost dramatically as your employees will want to put in effort for employers who care, rather than ones who neglect their employees. Happy and motivated employees and a more successful company? What more can you ask for!

Following are some examples of corporate wellness workshops topics which could be used within your company:

• Healthy Meal Prep For Busy People
• What to Keep An Eye Out For at the Grocery Store
• Nutrition Basics
• How to Read Nutritional Labels
• The Importance of Breakfast
• Monitoring Your Relationship With Sugar
• Mindful vs. Mindfulness Eating
• Hydration Station
• Diabetes 101
• It’s a Lifestyle, NOT a Diet
• Balancing Work and Life
• From Smoker to Smoker Free
• Stress Management
• Monitor Mental Health
• Pillow Talk
• Fitness Fun
• Fitness in Your Workspace
• Cardiovascular Fitness: Your Heart
• Stretching Strategies and Benefits
• Goal-Setting: Short-Term vs. Long-Term
• Got Back Pain?

Workshops provide an opportunity to narrow in on issues employees are having in their day-to-day lives rather than just making a generalization on their health and wellness. The specific education can help employees understand what they’re doing and why they’re doing it. This, in turn, navigates employees in the direction of self-improvement. Interactive health and wellness education through workshops can lead to serious change in the fields of nutrition, fitness, and stress management.