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Welcome to the Workplace Challenge Champion
Training
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Welcome and introductions
Hello Ice breaker!
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Agenda need to update
Item Time
Welcome what is the WPC and BHF HaW programme 1000 1100
Why physical activity and workplace health? 1100 1130
Break 1130 1145
Being a Workplace Challenge Champion 1145 1200
Behaviour change 1200 1230
Gaining support commitment 1230 1245
Lunch 1245 1330
Support and resources to get your workplace active 1330 1400
Wesport Workplace Challenge 1400 1415
Organising activities and events 1415 1430
Practical session Workplace Games 1430 1530
Next steps, close and depart 1530 1600
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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.
• Question - How can we support you following the
  training and whats the best way for you to stay
  involved?

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Whats 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. Workplac
e 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
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What is the Workplace Challenge and BHF Health at
Work programme?
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What is the Workplace Challenge?
Aim To engage workplaces in sport and physical
activity Funded by Sport England

• National Partners

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Workplace Challenge Manifesto
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Whats involved?

• Activity Log
• -National challenges and local/ CSP challenges
• 2) Competition Programme
• 3) Business Games
• Win prizes and compete against other businesses
• Sign up for FREE today!
• www.workplacechallenge.org.uk

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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.
• Business case evidence.

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Demonstration of Workplace Challenge System

• www.workplacechallenge.org.uk
• Registration
• Profile/ dashboard
• Logging Activity App
• Leaderboards
• Data

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WPC Home Page
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Dashboard
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Activity Log

• Free to use throughout the year.
• Log any participation in sport and PA.
• Activity points and CO2 saved.
• Challenges/ Prizes/ Incentives

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Log Activity
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App
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Leaderboards
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British Heart Foundation Health at Work Programme
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Working in partnership
The BHF are delighted to work in partnership with
Workplace Challenge. We are supporting the
project by delivering champions training across
England creating sustainable development of
workplace health through our Health at Work
programme
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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

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Our fight for every heartbeat

• Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a huge burden on
  people in the UK
• Each year around
• 1 in 4 of us die from CVD
• 175,000 are admitted to hospital with a heart
  attack
• 235,000 suffer a stroke
• Well beat CVD by funding ground-breaking
  research and well continue to support and
  empower those living with it across the UK.
• Well drive programmes of work to keep the
  nations hearts healthy, prevent tragic loss of
  life, and give cardiovascular patients the best
  care they can receive.

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Health at Work Programme
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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.

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Key to success

• Workplace Champion
• HR, Occupational Health, Health and Wellbeing
  Manager, Healthy Lifestyle Officer, Health
  Safety
• Main contact for your workplace
• Support to drive the programme forward
• Internally - engage with management, champions
  and employees
• Externally - look for partnerships e.g. NHS.
  charities
• Motivate

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Health at Work programme

• What we offer
• Free membership
• Resources
• Website
• Delivery
• coordinator seminars/ training days
• Health and wellbeing days

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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

We used this evidence to predict our own
employee outcomes, organisational benefits and
the financial value Helen Williams St Helens
Council
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Why physical activity and workplace health?
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The Business Case
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Workplace setting

• Average person spends more than a third of their
  waking hours at work
• A great place for promoting health to employees

• Established channels of communication - publicise
  programmes, encourage participation and provide
  feedback

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Ill-health

• Many of the health problems of the UK workforce
  can be attributed to worsening public health
  (i.e. poor diets, growing obesity, smoking and
  more sedentary lifestyles)
• UK workforce of the future being older and
  sicker, with more people living and working with
  ill-health.
• By 2025 its likely 40 of adults will be obese
  rise in chronic conditions

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Costs of Ill-health

• Cost of sickness absence
• ______________working days are lost every year
  due to absence
• Costs UK businesses __ billion a year
• An average ___ days absence and cost to employers
  of ___ per employee

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Costs of Ill-health

• Cost of sickness absence
• 140 million working days are lost every year due
  to absence
• Costs UK businesses 29 billion a year
• An average 6.6 days absence and median cost to
  employers of 554 per employee

Productivity
Staff Turnover, Accidents Injury
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Adult activity guidelines
Every 10 minutes counts

• Something is better than nothing.
• Build up to a total of 150 active minutes a week.
• Be sure to add in activities that will help
  strengthen your muscles.
• Limit and break up the amount of time you spend
  being still.

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Scale of the problem
Over 60 men and 70 women dont do the
recommended amount of exercise to benefit their
healthbut 80 of people think they are active
enough.
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Health risks physical inactivity

• Reduces the risk of all-cause mortality
• Approximately 30 risk reduction across all
  studies
• Dose-response relationship

US PA guidelines advisory committee report 2008
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Risk factors for CHD
Smoking High BMI High cholesterol High
BP Physical inactivity Which circle is physical
inactivity?
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Risk factors for CHD
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Physical activity

• Health at Work
• Your Choice Your Change booklet
• Think of ways you can build activity into your
  week fill in the weekly planner.

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Active vs sedentary lifestyle
Sedentary lifestyle Calories Active lifestyle Calories
Car to station and train to work 10 Brisk 20 minute walk to station 120
Using the lifts or escalators at work 5 Walking up 3 flights of stairs at the office (5 times a day) 100
Stay in the office during your lunch break 10 Go for a gentle 30 minute walk with a colleague/ friend 170
Getting picked up from the station 10 Brisk 20 minute walk home from the station 120
Ordering a takeaway for dinner 10 Preparing and cooking food yourself (30 mins) 70
Sitting down to watch TV as a family 5 Playing with the children (1 hour) 170
TOTAL 50 TOTAL 750
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Why promote health and wellbeing at work?
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Return on investment

• Employers who invest in health initiatives ROI
• ROI can range from 12 to 134
• 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
• Targeted interventions are more likely to show a
  pay-back period earlier.

BHF Building the Business case report 2014
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Health benefits

• Reduces risk of chronic conditions
• Coronary heart disease
• Stroke
• Type 2 diabetes
• Cancer
• Obesity
• Mental health problems
• Musculoskeletal problems

• Improves peoples quality of life
• More energy
• Less stressed
• More relaxed
• Healthier body shape
• Sleep more easily
• Social aspect
• More self-confidence

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Group activity

• Post it note exercise (2 mins)
• 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?

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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
• Inclusive of under-represented groups

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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
• Reduced costs related to injuries and accidents
• Reduced recruitment costs
• Reduced staff turnover
• Team building
• Positive company image and profile
• Mitigate some of the problems of an ageing
  workforce.

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Case Study Film
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Break
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Being a Workplace Challenge Champion
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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.

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Skills of a Workplace Challenge Champion

• Enthusiastic
• Motivated
• Good communicator
• Organised
• Approachable
• Influencer
• Persistence/ focus
• Open to ideas/ listener
• Inclusive

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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.

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Behaviour Change
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Behaviour Change thank you Sport England

• Group Task
• What will motivate people at your workplace to
  change (get active/ be more active/ healthy)?
• 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.

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We understand more about people than ever before

• and what this means for sport

• How we all tick

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Firstly what colour is this shape?
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BLUE
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We all make more gut decisions than thoughtful
decisions
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Habits and shortcuts shape our lives
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We are mainly driven by emotion
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Examples from the world of sport
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Were deeply programmed to fit in with the people
around us
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Technology plays a role but Technology may be
more effective
VS
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We prioritise NOW over the future

• we may have long term goals
• but we expect results or progress fast!
• we process immediate costs and benefits more than
  longer term

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Immediate reward is a part of habit
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What makes us feel rewarded by an experience?
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The entire customer journey matters
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Behaviour change is a journey and falling off
the wagon is normal
Id rather go out with mates thanks
Ive been thinking about maybe joining a gym but
theyre so expensive!
Ive finally signed up to a local gym
Trying to go to the gym once a week but doesnt
always go to plan!
Having to work on a Sat morning this is the
first time Ive missed my class in years!
SOURCE Prochaska and Diclemente
Transtheoretical Model of Behaviour Change
Changes and breaks in activity are normal
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This is why one size does not fit all
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COM-B (Michie et al. 2011d)
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COM-B (Michie et al. 2011d)
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COM-B group task
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Behaviour Change Guidance

• NICE Guidance PH49 Behaviour Change Individual
  Approaches http//www.nice.org.uk/guidance/PH49

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Gaining support and commitment
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Activity

• Think about your organisation and how you have or
  could gain and maintain support and commitment
  from
• Management
• Champions
• Employees
• BHF Building the business case booklet - template
  tool, evidence report and cost calculator

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Gaining management support

• 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

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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

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Maintaining management support

• Agree time
• coordinator/ champions
• employees to take part
• Health at Work policy
• Encourage active participation
• Regular contact updates, results, success
  stories

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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
• Intranet/ internet, notice boards, team meetings,
  social media, staff survey
• Role description clarify benefits, make
  attractive, support
• Clear expectations

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Gaining champion support

• 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

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Maintaining champion support

• Support - meetings and 11s- regular
• Training personal and professional development
• Champions get together - share experiences and
  ideas
• Dedicated time per week
• Recognition
• Responsibility
• Leadership
• Reward

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Gaining employee support

• 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

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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

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Maintaining employee engagement

• Incentives
• Prizes/ awards
• Competition (friendly)
• Maintain communication
• Success personal stories
• Feedback update

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Lunch
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Support and resources to get your workplace active
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County Sports Partnerships - CSPs

• CSPs can support workplaces with local
  development of sport and PA for PHE staff e.g.
• Presentations
• Surveys/ needs assessments
• Planning activities and challenges
• Access to the Workplace Challenge website/ app
• Coach/ leader training
• Marketing and communications campaigns and
  challenges
• Reporting/ participation data
• Links to local activities/ providers NGBs,
  facilities, clubs, coaches/ instructors
• Products and services events, consultancy,
  training, sponsorship opportunities, bespoke
  versions

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Workplace Challenge Competition Programme and
Business Games events

• 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

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National Governing Bodies of Sport

• NGB products training info sheet
• NGB offers, a-z

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Sport England PHE Active Design Guide 10
principles

• http//www.sportengland.org/facilities-planning/pl
  anning-for-sport/planning-tools-and-guidance/activ
  e-design/

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Sport England PHE Active Design Guide 10
principles
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BHF Health at Work Programme Resources
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Join Health at Work

• Free Membership
• Includes
• Welcome pack
• E-newsletter
• Quarterly member pack
• Resources
• Website
• LinkedIn
• Heart Helpline (0300 330 3311)

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ResourcesAvailable at bhf.org.uk/health-at-work/r
esources

• Health at Work Toolkit
• Posters
• Pocket mission booklet
• Workplace event guide
• Health at Work Calendar 2016
• Business case booklet, template tool, evidence
  report, cost calculator

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Health at Work Website

• BMA Patient Information award 2011
• Physical activity, healthy eating, mental
  wellbeing and behaviour change
• Resources
• Challenges Be active, Hydration Challenge
• Success Stories including videos
• News and Blog
• Events further training

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Pedometer Challenge Pack

• Step-by-step guide
• Posters
• Adaptable letter, folder and weekly emails
• Individual team step count sheet
• Information sheets
• Progress chart
• Rules and safety tips
• Certificates
• A complimentary pedometer

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Resistance bands
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BHF physical activity resources

• BHF activity calories calculator
• Ten minutes to change your life
• Get active stay active booklet
• Put your heart into walking
• Chair exercises
• BHF events
• Training zones
• Heart matters magazine, tools, recipes,
  motivational emails
• EFDS Inclusive Communications guide

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Get in touch

• E-mail healthatwork_at_bhf.org.uk
• Phone [phone]
• To order resources
• Call 0870 600 6566
• Email orderline_at_bhf.org.uk
• Health at Work Website
• bhf.org.uk/healthatwork

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Useful links

• Workplace Challenge website www.workplacechallenge
  .org.uk
• CSP Network www.cspnetwork.org
• Workplace Challenge promotional materials
  www.workplacechallenge.org.uk/resources
• BHF Health at Work www.bhf.org.uk/healthatwork
• Workplace Challenge Manifesto www.workplacechallen
  ge.org.uk/manifesto
• Sport England www.sportengland.org
• Sport England Disability Sport
  www.sportengland.org/our-work/disability
• Sport England NGBs http//www.sportengland.org/o
  ur-work/national-governing-bodies/
• English Federation of Disability Sport
  www.efds.co.uk

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More links

• This Girl Can www.thisgirlcan.co.uk
• One You www.nhs.uk/oneyou
• NICE Guidance Workplace Health
  www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng13
• NICE Guidance Behaviour Change
  www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ph49

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Wesport Workplace Challenge
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Organising activities and events
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Activity

• Share what you have done to promote physical
  activity in your workplace or ideas that you
  have.
• Consider
• How you raised awareness
• What opportunities you gave
• How you created an inclusive and supportive
  environment

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EAST - a helpful guide to using a behaviour
change approach to plan activities

• Easy
• make sure it fits into my life
• reduce the hassle factor of the experience
• simplify messages

• Attractive
• attract attention make it relevant and
  appealing to me
• incentivise me to start and reward me afterwards

• Social
• use the power of social networks and norms
• deliver in a place thats within my normal
  boundaries
• encourage people to make a commitment to others

• Timely
• prompt me when Im likely to be most receptive
• promote the immediate benefits
• help me plan my actions

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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?

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Activity
With a partner identify 3 barriers you might face
in the workplace.
Choose 1 barrier and provide a possible solution.
How have you overcome barriers?
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Barriers to participation

• Time, perception of sport and PA, fitness,
  availability, self image, how to get started,
  money
• Groups under represented in sport
• Women (see www.thisgirlcan.co.uk)
• BME groups
• Disabled people
• Socio economic status

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Workplace Games
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Workplace Games!

• Try different games that you can do at your
  workplace!

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Action planning and next steps
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Action Planning

• Think about what you have heard about today
• Choose an activity you would like to introduce in
  your workplace
• Consider what you will need to do implement this
  in your workplace
• Template action plan for champions to start to
  complete

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Whats 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 whats 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 features on
  the system www.workplacechallenge.org.uk
• Make use of the BHF HaW programme
• Question - How can we support you following the
  training and whats the best way for you to stay
  involved?

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Evaluation form

• Please can you fill in your evaluation form as we
  will use your feedback to improve future training
  sessions.

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