Welcome to the
Workplace Challenge
Champion Training
Welcome and introductions
Hello
Ice breaker!
• Without talking arrange yourselves in order of number
of years experience in workplace health…
Aims of the Workplace
Challenge Champion Training
To provide information and support to those with a
remit for workplace health to create a sustainable
increase in participation in sport and physical activity
at their workplace.
Agenda
Item
Welcome – what is the WPC and BHF HaW programme
Why physical activity and workplace health?
Being a workplace challenge champion and Intro to NWPC tools and how to use
the system
Break
Time
9:15-9:45
9:45 – 10:15
10:15-10:45
Gaining support & commitment
Case studies and sharing success
Support and resources to get your workplace active
Barriers and solutions
Lunch
Sport and physical activity ideas to get your workplace more active
Practical session – Workplace Games
Next steps, close and depart
11:00 – 11:25
11:25 - 11:45
11.45 – 11.55
11.55 – 12.15
12.15 – 1.00
1.00 - 1.30
1.30 – 3.00
3.00 – 3.30
10:45 – 11:00
What is the Workplace
Challenge and BHF Health
at Work programme?
What is the Workplace Challenge?
Aim: To engage workplaces in sport and physical activity
Funded by: Sport England
National Partners:
What’s involved?
1) Activity Log:
-National Challenge - Jan to Mar plus local mini challenges
2) Competition Programme
3) Business Games
Win prizes and compete against other businesses
Sign up for FREE today!
www.workplacechallenge.org.uk
Evaluation
Workplace Challenge is being evaluated by BHF
National Centre for physical activity and health.
Aims of the evaluation;
• Learn how workplaces can engage inactive people.
• Assess effectiveness of the Workplace Challenge.
What’s in it for you?
Champion; to gain further knowledge and experience in
promoting physical activity, whilst providing a key role to
colleagues and the project through the liaison of sport and
physical activity coordination in your workplace.
Workplace; get support to improve health and wellbeing at
your workplace, get recognition for your employees
achievements.
Participants; the chance to try different sports, compete
against friends, raise money for charity, live a healthier
lifestyle
British Heart Foundation
Health at Work Programme
Working in partnership
BHF are delighted to be a partner in the Workplace challenge.
We are supporting the project by:
• providing project support through involvement in the steering
group
• delivering champions training across England – creating
sustainable development of workplace health through our Health
at Work programme
British Heart Foundation
Our mission is to win the fight against
cardiovascular disease
Our vision is of a world in which
people do not die prematurely or suffer
from cardiovascular disease
Our fight for every
heartbeat
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a huge burden on people in the UK
Each year around:
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1 in 4 of us die from CVD
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175,000 are admitted to hospital with a heart attack
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235,000 suffer a stroke
We’ll beat CVD by funding ground-breaking research and we’ll
continue to support and empower those living with it across the UK.
We’ll drive programmes of work to keep the nation’s hearts healthy,
prevent tragic loss of life, and give cardiovascular patients the best
care they can receive.
Health at Work Programme
Health at Work
programme
The Health at Work programme aims to improve the health and
wellbeing of the working-age population by:
• Working in partnership with employers, public health and
other stakeholders to create healthier workplaces
• Providing employers with practical and effective support to
establish and sustain a health at work programme
• Helping people make healthy choices related to their health
and wellbeing with a focus on diet, physical activity levels and
tobacco use that reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease.
Key to success
Workplace coordinator/champion/leader
• HR, Occ. health, Health and wellbeing manager,
Healthy lifestyle officer, H&S
• Overall responsibility rests with them – contact point
• Drive the programme forward – with support
• Internal - engage with management, champions
and employees
• External - look for partnerships e.g. NHS. charities
• Motivate
Barriers to success
Health at Work
programme
The Health at Work programme includes:
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Free membership
Resources
Website
Delivery
– coordinator seminars/ training days
– Health and wellbeing days
– Heart health workshops
Member feedback
79% of HaW members have taken positive action since joining the
programme
Positive outcomes:
• Reduced absenteeism
• Better morale
• Team building
• Improved positive corporate image
• Increased communication
• Individual success stories - weight loss
• Enhanced employee self-esteem
Why physical activity and
workplace health?
Why physical activity
Health benefits
Reduces risk of chronic
conditions:
Improves people’s
quality of life:
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Coronary heart disease
Stroke
Type 2 diabetes
Cancer
Obesity
Mental health problems
Musculoskeletal
problems
More energy
Less stressed
More relaxed
Healthier body shape
Sleep more easily
Social aspect
More self-confidence
Health risks – physical
inactivity
• Reduces the risk of allcause mortality
• Approximately 30% risk
reduction across all
studies
• Dose-response
relationship
US PA guidelines advisory
committee report 2008
Risk factors for CHD
Smoking
Obesity
High cholesterol
High BP
Physical inactivity
Which circle is
physical
inactivity?
Risk factors for CHD
Scale of the problem
• Over 60% men and 70% women don’t do the
recommended amount of exercise to benefit their health
• BUT 80% of people think they are active enough
Adult guidelines
Headline message:
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Be active every day
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Every ten minutes counts
Top line messages
1. Something is better than nothing.
2. Build up to a total of 150 active minutes a week.
3. Be sure to add in activities that will help strengthen your muscles.
4. Limit and break up the amount of time you spend sitting still.
Physical activity
• HaW pocket challenge booklet - think of ways you can
build activity into your week – fill in the weekly planner
on page 5
Why promote health and
wellbeing at work?
Workplace setting
• Over 30 million people in employment
• Average person spends over a third of their
waking hours, for up to 40 years of their life, at
work.
• Workplace has big effect on the health of everyone
who works there
• A fantastic place for promoting health to employees
• Established channels of communication - publicise
programmes, encourage participation and
provide feedback
Ill-health
• Many of the health problems of the UK workforce can be
attributed to worsening public health with poor diets, growing
obesity, smoking and more sedentary lifestyles all playing
their part.
• Situation likely to get worse - UK workforce of the future
being older and sicker, with more people living and working
with ill-health.
• It is likely by 2025 40% of adults will be obese, and the
number of people living and working with chronic conditions
will rise steadily.
Costs of Ill-health
Ill health costs business through:
• Cost of sickness absence
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160 million working days are lost every year due to absence
Costs UK businesses 17 billion a year
An average 5.3 days absence and cost to employers of £975 per
employee
Average London firm of 250 employees loses around £250,000 a
year
• Staff turnover
• Accidents and injury
• Productivity
• Presenteeism
Return on investment
• Employers who invest in health initiatives = potential to
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see significant return on investment (ROI)
ROI can range from £2 for every £1 spent (1:2) to £34 for
every £1 spent (1:34)
Reduced sickness absence evident in 82% of
programmes
Holistic wellness programmes can be expected to show a
positive financial return over a period of 2-3 years
More targeted interventions are more likely to show a payback period earlier.
BHF Building the Business case report 2014
Group activity
• What are the benefits of promoting physical activity and
health in the workplace for employees?
• What are the benefits of promoting physical activity and
health in the workplace for employers?
Benefits to employees
• Improved health and wellbeing – more active, fitter, less
stressed
• Reduced risk of illness and diseases
• Increased understanding of health
• Enhanced self-esteem
• Increased job satisfaction and morale
• Increased communication and social support
• Opportunities to network across the business
Benefits to employers
• Healthy staff - more satisfied, productive and resilient
• Reduced absenteeism
• Physical activity initiatives can reduce absenteeism by up to 20%
and physically active workers take 27% fewer sick days
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Reduced costs related to injuries and accidents
Reduced recruitment costs
Reduced staff turnover
Increased productivity
Team building
Positive company image and profile
Mitigate some of the problems of an ageing workforce.
HaW video
Being a Workplace
Challenge Champion
What do you think a Workplace
Challenge Champion should be/
do?
Discussion
• Discuss with the person next to you the top qualities
and skills of a Workplace Challenge Champion.
Skills of a Workplace Challenge
Champion
Enthusiastic
Motivated
Good communicator
Organised
Approachable
Influencer
Persistence/ focus
Open to ideas/ listener
What is a Workplace Challenge
Champion
• A dedicated individual with a remit or keen interest in
workplace health, keen to make a difference and
improve health at their workplace by increasing
participation in sport and physical activity.
• Able to influence others and sell the benefits of a
healthy and active workplace.
Behaviour Change
Group Task
• What will motivate people at your workplace to
change (get active/ be more active/ healthy)?
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The psychology that underlies the changing of behaviours is complex.
Two researchers named Prochaska and DiClemente developed a way of
describing it they called the Stages of Change Model.
5 stages of behavioural change
Prochaska and DiClemente
Contemplation
Preparation
Action
Maintenance
Relapse
Progress
Precontemplation
Impacted by factors from the slide above
COM-B (Michie et al. 2011d)
COM-B (Michie et al. 2011d)
Behaviour Change Guidance
• NICE Guidance PH49 – Behaviour Change: Individual
Approaches http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/PH49
Workplace Challenge Champion
Pledge
 Ideas/ criteria for Champions to work towards.
 Workplace Challenge/ BHF will provide support,
information and resources to help Champions to work
towards achieving the pledge criteria.
• Champions and their workplaces don’t have to already
be meeting the criteria; just need commitment to work
towards.
Workplace Challenge Champion
Pledge Criteria
1. Increase staff participation in sport and physical activity
2. Identify a Workplace Champion
3. Promote physical activity guidelines and the benefits of a healthy and active
workforce (i.e. on a staff room noticeboard)
4. Promote the Workplace Challenge and your Workplace Pledge by encouraging staff
to participate in the Activity Log, Competition Programme and Business Games
5. Promote and encourage active travel
6. Promote information about local activities/events and encourage staff to take part
or to volunteer in sport and physical activity. The 'Get Active' page can help with
programme opportunities in each area!
7. Encourage employees to be physically active during lunch breaks or immediately
after work, maybe consider introducing workplace incentives?
8. Provide or work towards improving the provision of facilities that enable staff to be
more active where possible i.e. installation of bike racks. (If possible/applicable for
your organisation)
Workplace Challenge tools
and how to use the system
Demonstration of Workplace
Challenge System
www.workplacechallenge.org.uk
• Profile/ dashboard
• Logging Activity
• Timeline
• Activity Log
• Leaderboards
National Workplace Challenge
tools for Champions
• User guide
• Quick overview of the system and benefits/ features
for workplaces/ users
• Enhanced functionality for Champions;
 Profile Page with logo
 Data
 Mini challenges
• Enhanced offer
User Guide – setting up your
challenge
Break
Gaining support and
commitment
Gaining support & commitment
Activity
Think about your organisation and how you have
or could gain and maintain support and
commitment from:
• Management
• Champions
• Employees
Gaining management
support
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From the start
Management sponsor
Meet with management – what do they want?
• Aims, objectives, success indicators
• Key drivers e.g. sickness absence, retention, CSR,
productivity
• Share success of other organisations
• Build a business case
Gaining management
support
Build a business case
• Sell benefits to organisation
• Link to indicators/ key drivers/ business benefits/
organisations mission and vision statement
• What staff are saying
• Be clear - what the programme is trying to achieve
• Transparency – time and resources
BHF Building the business case booklet - webpage,
template tool, evidence report and cost calculator
Maintaining management
support
• Agree time
• coordinator/ champions
• employees to take part
• Health at Work policy
• Encourage active participation
• Regular contact – updates, results, success stories
Gaining champion
support
• Getting the right champions is vital
• More than 1 is essential – share responsibility
• People from different departments/ sites
• People at different grades/ ages
• Volunteers/ enthusiastic people
• Promote opportunity
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Intranet/ internet, notice boards, team meetings, social media, staff survey
Role description - clarify benefits, make attractive,
opportunities for involvement, support
Clear expectations
Gaining champion
support
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Find out their interests/ skills/ experience/ how they
want to get involved
Identify hidden talent at your workplace!
Suggest ways they could be involved:
• Communication/ brainstorm ideas/ working group/
specialist skills/ organise activities/ provide
feedback/ lead or run activity sessions/ offer
coaching
Establish one off/ regular commitment
Maintaining champion
support
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Support - meetings and 1:1’s- regular
Training – personal and professional development
Champions get together - share experiences and ideas
Dedicated time per week
Recognition
Responsibility
Leadership
Reward
Gaining employee support
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Time, persistence and constant communication
Make the purpose very clear
Make them feel part of the programme
Find out what employees want
Management to show support – time to participate
Communication
Engaging employees
• Visible management support
• promote activities
• participation with employees
• recognise success
• Workplace champions
• communicate and encourage peers
• gain feedback
• Work with employees who show early interest
• get initiatives started, create early success
• communicate success widely
Maintaining employee
engagement
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Incentives
Prizes/ awards
Competition (friendly)
Maintain communication
Success – personal stories
Feedback – update
Case Studies
Support and resources to
get your workplace active
Get your workplace active!
• Workplace Challenge resources and ideas:
www.workplacechallenge.org.uk/webinar-workshopresources
www.workplacechallenge.org.uk/resources
• CSPN/ CSP support – Workplace Challenge tools,
local activities/ events, services.
Support from CSPN, CSPs and
BHF
• Further training – sport specific/ NGB activator/
coaching course, SCUK; First Steps into Coaching,
How to Deliver Engaging Sessions
• Information about local activities, clubs, coaches,
facilities, NGBs.
• Workforce education programme
• Ideas for activities
• Equipment
• NICE guidance – Workplace health promotion: how
to encourage employees to be physically active
(2008)
BHF Health at Work programme
& physical activity resources
Membership – join
HaW
• It’s FREE!
Includes:
• Welcome pack
• E-newsletter
• Quarterly member pack
• Resources
• Website
• LinkedIn
• Helpline
HaW Toolkit
Coordinator resource includes:
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Introduction booklet
Physical activity booklet
Healthy eating booklet
Mental wellbeing booklet
Quit smoking booklet
Posters
Pocket mission booklet
HaW resources
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HaW toolkit
Posters
Pocket mission booklet – employee
Pedometer challenge pack
Workplace event guide
HaW calendar
Business case – booklet, template tool, evidence
report, cost calculator
HaW Website
• BMA Patient Information award 2011
• Physical activity, healthy eating, mental wellbeing,
stop smoking
• Resources and events
• Challenges – Pedometer, Be active, Stair climb
• Success Stories – including videos
• News
• Events
Pedometer
challenge pack
Coordinator resource includes:
• Co-ordinator guide
• Posters
• Editable desk drop letter and folder
• Editable weekly emails
• Individual + team step count sheet
• Team captain booklet
• Progress chart
• Rules and safety tips
• Certificate
• 1 pedometer
Resistance bands
BHF physical activity
resources
• BHF activity calories calculator
• Ten minutes to change your life – Time to get
moving
• Get active stay active booklet
• Put your heart into walking booklet
• Activity diary
• BHF events
• Training zones
• Heart matters – magazine, tools, recipes,
motivational emails
BHF resources
• E-mail us: healthatwork@bhf.org.uk
• Order resources
- By calling: 0870 600 6566
- Or email: orderline@bhf.org.uk
• Health at Work website: bhf.org.uk/healthatwork
Barriers and solutions
Thinking about promoting the Workplace
Challenge and physical activity in your
workplace.
What barriers have you faced or do you think
you will face in your workplace?
Lunch
Sport and physical activity
ideas for your workplace
National Governing Bodies of
Sport
• NGB products – info sheet
• NGB training – info sheet
Group task – discuss ideas for
activities you could develop/ your
colleagues might want to try?
Practical ideas to get your
workplace active
• Workplace Challenge Competition Programme and
Business Games events
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Fun
Low cost
No experience necessary
Instruction provided
Supported and delivered by NGBs
Links to local sessions and clubs
Book online
www.workplacechallenge.org.uk/competitions
Community Games
www.communitygames.org.uk
Promoting physical
activity in your workplace
What ideas do you have for physical activity/ sport promotion
in your workplace?
• Information and awareness raising
• Providing opportunities
• A Supportive environment
Get people thinking
about physical activity
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Launch event/ health check
Champions
Surveys and questionnaires
Booklets and leaflets
Posters
Messages in payslips/newsletters/emails
Physical activity displays
Physical activity quizzes
Physical activity demos
Promote using the stairs, stand on the telephone, break
up sitting time
Provide opportunities
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Choice & variety
On-site activities
Timings
Duration
Cost
Taster events
Link to national events
Fun & social
Team based challenges and competitions, sports teams
Incentives – ‘freebies’ or linked to achievement of goals
Provide opportunities
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Physical activity classes – yoga, circuits, tai chi
Leisure centre discounts/ membership
Taster sessions – NGBs
Pedometer challenge
Walk leader training
Organised walks
Walk to Work week
Nordic walking
Cycle lessons and/ or training
Cycle maintenance workshops
National Bike week
A supportive environment
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Flexible working hours to enable physical activity
Safe walking routes
Mapped walking routes
Stairs – signposted, well lit, clean etc.
Safe cycle routes
Secure and safe storage
Lockers
Facilities for changing/showers
Bicycle pool
Bike purchase scheme
Mileage allowance
Workplace travel plans
Organising activities and
events
Leading from within
Ability
Consider what
you’re good at:
Motivator
Communicator
Organiser
Team work
Can lead a group
Good with lists
Loves organising
events
Great at admin
Good at writing
Good researcher
Love social media
Stay in touch
Remember things
Sociable
Other???
Your Ability
Who else can you
work with?
Planning and promotion
Moving at the right PACE
• P = People – who will you work with?
• A = Activity – what activity might you do?
• C = Communication – how will you communicate with
the people you want to work with to engage them in
your activity?
• E = Expand – how will your activity grow?
Context & circumstances
Barriers to participation
• Time, perception of sport and PA, fitness, availability,
self image, how to get started, money
• Groups under represented in sport;
 Women
 BME groups
 Disabled people
Increasing physical activity
• Increase in moderation, one step at a time.
• Encourage fellow colleagues to seek advice/ support
about any health/ injury concerns any individual may
have.
• Working together can increase enjoyment levels,
improve mood, challenge each other.
The 5 C’s of coaching (Richard Lerner)
In relation to participants;
1. Competence
2. Confidence
3. Connection
4. Character and Caring
5. Creativity
Coaching Minimum Standards
Minimum Standards for Active Coaches
Core standards for QUALITY ASSURANCE that apply to all
coaches recommended as:
• agreed minimum age
• appropriate qualification
• relevant insurance cover
• enhanced DBS
• commitment to:
code of conduct, equality, participant welfare, agreed health and
safety.
• Also consider rates of pay; not usually more than £25 p/h
Additional training for coaches
Additional Training
Current recommended additional training, which
includes:
• ‘Safeguarding and Protecting Children & Vulnerable
Adults’
• ‘Equity in Your Coaching’
• ‘How to Coach Disabled People in Sport’
Workplace Games
Workplace Games!
Try different games that you can do at your workplace!
Workplace challenge
champion pledge and next
Steps
Workplace Challenge Champion
Pledge
 Ideas/ criteria for Champions to work towards.
 Workplace Challenge/ BHF will provide support,
information and resources to help champions to work
towards achieving the pledge criteria.
• Champions and their workplaces don’t have to already
be meeting the criteria; just need commitment to work
towards.
Workplace Challenge Champion
Pledge
• Think about/ discuss ideas for how you and your
workplace can achieve the 8 criteria?
Workplace Challenge Champion
Pledge Criteria
1. Increase staff participation in sport and physical activity
2. Identify a Workplace Champion
3. Promote physical activity guidelines and the benefits of a healthy and active
workforce (i.e. on a staff room noticeboard)
4. Promote the Workplace Challenge and your Workplace Pledge by encouraging staff
to participate in the Activity Log, Competition Programme and Business Games
5. Promote and encourage active travel
6. Promote information about local activities/events and encourage staff to take part
or to volunteer in sport and physical activity. The 'Get Active' page can help with
programme opportunities in each area!
7. Encourage employees to be physically active during lunch breaks or immediately
after work, maybe consider introducing workplace incentives?
8. Provide or work towards improving the provision of facilities that enable staff to be
more active where possible i.e. installation of bike racks. (If possible/applicable for
your organisation)
Ideas for Achieving the Workplace
Challenge Champion Pledge
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Encourage staff at your workplace to take part in the Workplace Challenge (activity log,
competitions, business games).
You are a Champion!
Use BHF and Workplace Challenge resources to promote physical activity
www.bhf.org.uk/healthatwork/
Use Workplace Challenge promotional materials e.g. web banners to promote the
programme at your workplace.
Promote Bike Week at your workplace. Set up a cycle scheme. Contact your local
sustainable transport team. Go on a led ride www.goskyride.com
Promote information about activities and events from your local CSPs website. Go to
www.cspnetwork.org to find yours.
Set up a walking or running group or challenge departments or local workplaces to a
game of football, badminton, netball etc..
Survey staff to find out what’s stopping them being active at work. Contact your local
CSP or sustainable transport team to see if any funding is available.
What’s next?
Write on a post-it one thing you will take away from today
• Survey/ find out what your colleagues would like to
do and what’s stopping them currently taking part.
• Contact your CSP to find out about local support
available for the development of sport and physical
activity www.cspnetwork.org
• Complete your profile and make use of enhanced
features for Workplace Challenge Champions on the
system – www.workplacechallenge.org.uk
• Make use of the BHF HaW programme
Useful links
• www.workplacechallenge.org.uk/webinar-workshopresources
• www.workplacechallenge.org.uk/resources
• www.bhf.org.uk/healthatwork
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