Now you are going to ask what does business development consulting services have to do with ghosts. You may think this is a little too far off the beaten track – the business beaten track – but to be perfectly honest, it isn’t. Sometimes, we leave workplace policies, people, behaviors and a culture change, in working environments that just nag at us continuously for years after we tossed them out. This has happened to me, so with my Attracting Corporate Clients online training and coaching program, I’m hoping to rectify this, by supporting health care practitioners in the workplace. This is my dedication to business development consulting services for you, and of course for me.
So, this is my ghost – the one that haunts me daily for years. I’m here to set the record straight in the hopes that a few of you agree with me and want to change the past with me. You know – give that ghost some peace and send him off into a blissful afterlife.
In my almost 40 years of occupational health nursing, I’ve dismantled a few health centers as business development consulting services to employers, all for the sake of supposed business progress. In doing so, the closing of health centres has left their employees with a reduced ability to seek medical attention during the work day, which unfortunately gets attributed to an increased cost in absenteeism. I recognize the damage that this supposed progress has done to our employees, our organizations and I want to share this story with the business leaders of today.
If you have never heard of nurses in the workplace, the Ontario Occupational Health Nurses Association can provide you with lots of information. The old terms of plant nurse, employee nurse and now occupational health nurse, are all inclusive of a nurse managing a small health centre at the workplace, to manage some of the employees’ health issues, like a headache or the need for some well-being counseling, so they can stay at work, and be productive.
Workplace health centers can be staffed with a variety of health professionals – traditional AND holistic. Together they can make a difference to the chronically ill employee, the management of minor health conditions, reduction in disability claims through quick access to medical opinions and as well to the bottom line of any organization. I understand then, and now, why workplaces chose to outsource their health centers and remove health & wellness from their work sites, however, I think it’s time to bring it back, but in a more enhanced manner.
My business development consulting services now, is encouraging leaders to place nurses and doctors at the helm of these occupational health centers once again. Way back in the day, these health professionals didn’t always provide the organization with Return on Investment (ROI) statistics to keep their mandates viable – not because they didn’t want to, but because they were never taught to make health a financial investment and to show the employer the ROI. When the benefits became an added financial burden, especially in the last 15 years, when businesses were trimming their expenses, services such as onsite occupational health centers became a dying spirit.
This is coming to haunt us all in today’s times. Hence, my business development consulting services are directed at you, holistic and health practitioners. We are at a point in our health care crisis here in Canada, that collaborating and providing health options for everyone, including those at work, makes good financial sense.
As a business owner, I understand that the benefits we have, or the services we deliver, must have a ROI in order for its continued existence. I teach you about this in my Attracting Corporate Clients online training and coaching program.Â
With the increasing burden on the health care system, continuing disability and absenteeism costs, AND, increasing employee health benefit plan usage, solutions are needed to impact the staggering costs of health in our country.
As a concerned stakeholder in your employees’ health, you have the power to make a significant difference in their health and wellness – not at an arm’s length but face-to-face. Too many organizations offer solutions that give the impression that the health of their employees is important, but the actions, to me, say the opposite. With outsourced EAP, outsourced gym memberships and outsourced disability management services, to name a few, it seems that we could facilitate our strategic endeavors IN THE WORKPLACE where I believe the impact would be greater, and you know, put some of those ghosts to rest.
In other words, we need to bring health & wellness back to the worksite with onsite options to make a difference in the health of the employees. In return, this will make a difference to the bottom line with increased productivity and decreased absenteeism as a few of the rewards.
Some parameters for health & wellness options should NOT include one size fits all programs such as smoking, weight management or flu vaccines. You need to consider overall health for ALL your employees. Too often I see employers implementing smoking cessation programs, as an example, because we all know of course that this is an unhealthy habit – but some of the smokers don’t want to quit. Offer a generic health & wellness approach so that everyone can feel included rather than pointed out and ostracized for their habits. Think bigger – more broad concepts that everyone can participate in.
So, my business development consulting services has led to this online training and coaching program, so I can lay to rest, my workplace ghosts. Employees need help, and so do their families, and so does the organization. Overall, offering health options in the workplace, is nothing but a genius idea to address some of the issues of taking time off work to seek medical attention, and offering health as a prevention tool to reduce disability claims.
If you are ready to absolutely crush your goals and blow past all of your limiting beliefs, book a free chat with me on zoom to discuss how I can help you develop your health practice and attract corporate clients too!
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