Creating Healthy Habits For Your Team

by Arootah | Feb 17, 2022 | Mind | 0 comments

What kinds of habits do your employees have? Do you know how much better and happier they would be with some adjusting of their personal and professional habits?

Building an arsenal of healthy habits takes time and discipline. For individuals, it’s a noble goal to improve your habits one by one until they are fully optimized for your needs. However, providing your employees with the tools to create healthy habits can help improve your organization overall.

You don’t have to leave the habits of your employees to chance. In fact, it will do wonders for your company culture to show that embracing healthy habits and curbing bad ones is a priority.

You can’t control everything your employees do, and you wouldn’t want to. What’s better is that you can provide them with the resources to create healthy habits that benefit them for the long haul.

Successful people have strong habits

One of the best ways to start implementing healthy habits into your life is to look at the habits of people who are already achieving the goals you want to achieve. Among high achievers, there tends to be some patterns in the habits they adopt.

If you’re looking to overhaul some of your habits, or inspire new habits in your team, here are some you should consider:

Getting up early: Nearly 50% of self-made millionaires studied in Tom Corley’s book “Change Your Habits, Change Your Life” got up at least 3 hours before their workday began. Early mornings are a great time to get a jump on the day, exercise, or work creatively while your mind is still focused from a good night’s sleep.

Reading a lot: There are hundreds of years of valuable information written in the form of books that can help you with your life, business, and career goals. Successful people make it a habit to read and absorb a constant stream of informative text. Although, there is solid evidence that reading for pleasure can also help boost your career.

Regular exercise: Fully utilizing the mind-body connection is essential for success. Successful people make a habit of regular exercise because they know it trains their mind and body to work well together, as well as reduce stress and chance of disease.

Surround yourself with inspiring people: It should be common knowledge that you are a sum of the five people you spend the most time around. An excellent habit to start implementing is to consciously decide who you surround yourself with. Make a habit of seeking out people you find inspiring to learn from them.

Setting SMART goals: Goal setting is a great habit, but take it to the next level by making your goals SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound). Put this practice into every area of your life: professional, relational, health and physical well-being, and financial.

Prioritizing sleep: Sleep is absolutely critical for performing at your best. In fact, Albert Einstein himself preferred to get ten hours of sleep every night. When you make it a habit to prioritize sleep, you always achieve a positive result due to the productivity and creativity it causes.

READ: Achieve Your Goals by Changing Your Beliefs

Habits among high performing teams

Among high-performing teams, there is a culture of strong habit building. As its members try to optimize their own performance, there is a tendency to share each other’s goals in order to benefit the team.

If one or two people on your team start making the habit of skipping happy hour to go to the gym, it’s more likely the rest of your team will reap the benefits. Once all of you are trading in afternoon drinks for a fitness class, you’ve built a habit that benefits every individual and the team overall.

Purposely try to build a culture that creates healthy habits in the workplace. Some other habits your team should consider adopting are:

Emphasizing clear communication: If everyone on your team contributes to the habit of clear communication, there will be less room for error and better relational equity among teams.

Growth mindset: Adopting the attitude of “how can we?” among your team members ensures everyone will take ownership of the company goals. Setbacks merely mean a learning opportunity, and everyone supports one another in achieving goals.

Prioritize rest and recovery: A well-optimized team can’t spend every waking moment producing. There has to be a period of recovery for everyone to do their best. Creating intentional habits of recovery helps optimize your team. Your team learns to take care of their mental and physical well-being in order to do their best in all areas of life.

READ: High ROI of Discipline: Create Keystone Habits

Encouraging healthy habits, and preventing bad habits

Some accountability for having good habits can go a long way, and you, as an employer, are in a great position to provide that. By providing comprehensive resources to your team, you can help encourage healthy habits, while creating a culture that allows bad habits to fall to the wayside.

Habits training is a great resource for this. Investing in habits training for your team helps provide them with the tools they need to change behavior, set goals, and achieve them successfully. It allows them to feel confident in the tools they have at their disposal to achieve every personal and professional goal they have.

By providing wellness coaching for your team, you’ll be preventing a lot of damaging habits or changing them effortlessly. A key component of wellness coaching is prevention; meaning teaching your team to avoid habits that could lead to disease or burnout. It empowers them with an arsenal of resources to be the best employees they can be.

The bottom line

Once you start investing in developing the habits of your employees, your whole company culture is likely to change. It’s entirely likely you’ll see changes is stress levels, increased productivity, and improved job satisfaction. Taking care of your employees through their habits is an investment worth your while.

Does your team need a little help in overhauling their habits? Check out our corporate wellness programs to work with our experts on creating a plan that best fits your needs!