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Team Fitness Strategy Combo

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Does your company spend time on money on leadership development, team development, relationship skills, communication skills, personal effectiveness, career planning, corporate fitness and so on?

Are some of these programs less than successful?

Do employees lack enthusiasm for attending?

Is it difficult to connect the results of your development programs to company results?

The challenge

Most companies are under pressure to improve results and get greater value from spending. When it comes to corporate fitness and professional development programs many organisations report problems including:

  • Providing worthwhile corporate health activities is a real challenge;
  • Employees expect a program even if they don’t participate;
  • Spending a lot of money for mixed results;
  • Programs are disconnected to business objectives;
  • Duplication of programs;
  • Programs lack personal life connection;
  • Time away from work ;
  • Not attractive to some; and,
  • Negative competition undermines office relationships.

Costs and implications

When these problems are experienced the implications for professional development and corporate fitness programs can be considerable and involve:

  • Money being wasted;
  • Programs under achieving;
  • Conflicting messages due to duplication and lack of integration;
  • Lost opportunities;
  • Cynicism not participation;
  • Lower priorities than need be;
  • Seen as cost not development;
  • Relationships not as strong as could be; and,
  • The company missing out on developing a capable and committed organisation that delivers the best results possible.

Unfortunately running corporate development and fitness programs normally involves using experts in the various disciplines like fitness or teamwork or personal planning and no matter how good the experts are in their discipline they don’t think like a CEO or understand how to connect programs to corporate results and the bottom line.

What is possible?

By combining Andrew’s 20 years CEO experience with the latest in management practices and integrating experts from specific disciplines Andrew’s Team Fitness Strategy Combo uses to best of Desired Futures and Partnerunning to provide a program that enhances corporate fitness, build teams and develops the individual and collective capability of an organisation to achieve the results it wants. The program:

  • Connects to business needs;
  • Is an integrated program for personal, team and organisational  development;
  • Improves fitness for improved performance;
  • Provides flow on savings to development programs;
  • Promotes sustainable and evolving practices
  • Enhances staff commitment
  • Develops better relationships;
  • Encourages participation from diverse interest, skill and fitness levels;
  • Enables customer and family involvement; and,
  • Enhances brand, community service and reputation.

Making it happen

Ensuring the success of the Team, Fitness, Strategy Combo requires working through seven specific steps each one designed to connect the program to business results and to maximise benefits to participants. The stages are:

  1. Design the program for you needs;
  2. Promote the opportunity and benefit to potential participants;
  3. Recruit participants;
  4. Educate everyone involved;
  5. Take action by running the program;
  6. Review and learn to optimise the experience; and,
  7. Celebrate success.

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