22/5/2013
Vitality is our health department that
organises health checks, vaccines, fitness activities, the gym and much, much more.
This year J&J is participating in the Global Corporate Challenge where we
create groups of 7, each get a pedometer and walk as much as we can everyday to
compete in a race around a virtual world.
I believe this is one of the best
initiatives and events for an organisation to participate in because it really
gets employees energized, with a healthy competitive spirit to try and be
fitter and healthier. Not only does it help people with their health, people
work more efficiently when they feel fit and it also generates lively goss and
stories about people’s weekend activity plans and strategies to beat competing teams.
I was randomly appointed team captain and made plans to motivate my team making
miniature jersey stands with everyone’s names and sending out a welcome email with
details about admin issues. Being a team captain can sometimes be quite a job in
itself because the majority of us are quite competitive and therefore enter in
the number of steps we take daily but there are others who aren't as timely so it was my responsibility for
chasing people up about it. However that once again was hard to go about because
obviously their work takes priority number one so I thought just sending out a
reminder to everyone would be a good idea and that seems to have helped instead
of approaching an individual directly about it. It’s a lot of fun co-ordinating, it helps build our teamwork in finance and I personally love the challenge to try and reach 10,000 steps a day!
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