A combination of courses, trainings and support structures designed to transform your employees health, increase productivity and cut insurance costs. This unique and powerful program will alter your organization's culture around health and lead to breakthroughs in productivity!
Are you a CEO, VP, Director, leader?… and would you like to–
- Lower medical and insurance costs?
- Decrease absenteeism?
- Enhance performance, productivity and morale?
- Save your company/organization as much as $6 for every dollar invested?
The health of your organization is directly related to the health of your greatest resource – your people. Some employees are working longer hours and weekends often at the expense of their health and families. Others are overwhelmed, overweight and overstressed. Consequently they are using greater amounts of sick time and are at greater risk of injury or time off. This means increased healthcare costs and decreased productivity for your company.
For many companies, like yours, medical costs can consume half the corporate profits – or more! Studies show it costs employers an average of $1200 to $1500 MORE per year to insure each employee that is obese, has high blood pressure, high stress or smokes than a healthy employee.
How the program works:
This is a multi-faceted approach designed to create breakthrough results in health for your organization. Breakthroughs are always a function of three elements. First, they require a shift in thinking. Secondly, they require a corresponding shift in behavior. One without the other never works. Shifting mindset without a shift in behavior, and all you've got is wishful thinking. Shift behavior without addressing the mindset, and you are destined to go back to the way it was before. Once you shift both mindset and behavior, you must establish structures of support in order to sustain the behaviors. Without follow-up, nothing sticks.
The ideal approach is to first begin with the leadership of the organization. Without buy-in from the leadership, most projects are destined to fail. Then the seminar program will be rolled out to the most interested segment of the staff. From that group, people will be able to volunteer to become team leaders (additional incentives or compensation is recommended). They will be extensively trained to be competent peer leaders that will support the rest of the staff. As they are being trained, the seminar program will be presented to the rest of the staff. When this second segment of the staff complete the seminars, their team leaders will be ready to work with them in support groups that will meet each week. This follow-up structure for support is critical for the success of the program.
- Introductory seminar to executive leadership. The cost of an unhealthy workforce, and creating breakthroughs in health (2.5 hours)
- Energizing Leadership workshops for executive leadership. Three half-day programs approximately 4 to 6 weeks apart.
- Survey of interest to entire staff to determine those with keen interest.
- Introductory presentation to those with keen interest. Inform them of team leadership opportunity.
- Take Keen Interest group through Maximizing Energy seminar program.
- At completion, invite those interested to participate in Team Leadership program.
- Begin training for Team Leaders. Includes goals, measurements, coaching, support.
- Begin taking the rest of the staff through the Maximizing Energy seminar program.
- Team Leader training and Staff training conclude at same time. Establish support groups.
- Continued training and support of team leaders.
- Continued presentation of Maximizing Energy seminars as needed
Coach Ruben's program is a TRANSFORMATIONAL approach, not a traditional educational approach. What this means is that this program is designed to cause a radical and fundamental type of change that combines deep inner shifts in people's values, inspirations and perceptions, combined with outer shifts in behaviors, processes, strategies, practices and systems. Transformation results not just in doing something new, or a little bit faster or better, but in building a capacity for ongoing change.
The benefits of this approach include quantum reductions in process cycle times due to increased energy and awareness, reduced overheads, lower costs, improved quality, superior levels of employee commitment, and improved ability to respond to changes in the marketplace.
"This is a program that lived up to its name—Maximizing Energy. It wasn't a diet or a magic solution but had many of the same results: weight loss, increased energy level, a new relationship with exercise, and a better outlook on my physical health. As a health care professional, I knew the academics of what I needed to do for improved health, but the Maximizing Energy program framed the information in a way that worked with my lifestyle. The program met me where I was at—emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually. It was the first time that all aspects of my being were focused on obtaining health. I learned that I had options and that I could put together the pieces in ways that would allow me to be successful in the long-term. This program was about what I could do, not what I couldn't have. Deprivation is not a part of living optimally. The Maximizing Energy program is a lifetime journey with changes and fine-tuning a part of the process. Now I have some of the tools necessary to take a balanced approach and have redefined success."
– Terri Wolf, – RN, BSN, UC Davis Medical Center
The Maximizing Energy seminar program, presented by Ruben J. Guzman MPH, is comprised of nine fundamental sessions with two optional sessions available based on your company’s needs. This program is designed to develop a healthy and productive workforce. Employees will transform their relationship to their body and get focused on a strategic approach to improving health and fitness, and effectively managing stress.
Creating Breakthroughs—Establishing the foundation for optimal health and productivity.
- How the body works as an energy system
- How the four dimensions of human energy work
- Required elements for a balanced, healthy body
- How and why we sabotage ourselves
- How to cause BREAKTHROUGH results for your health, energy and vitality!
The Soul of Fitness
- How the context of our mindset determines the content of our behaviors
- How the context of scarcity pervades
- The three major conversations that perpetuate scarcity
- Creating a new context – SUFFICIENCY!
- The three major conversations that perpetuate sufficiency
- Practices to create and attract sufficiency
Secrets of the Fit Mind–Creating a new context for a healthy and fit body
- How your childhood influences shaped your fitness blueprint
- How to identify your own fitness blueprint
- "Fitness Files" that will reshape your blueprint along with action steps
Beyond Dieting—Effective fat reduction and control for a lifetime.
- How the body's fuel system is set up
- How to stay out of the Red Zone
- How effective fat loss really works
- Developing a three-prong approach to successful fat reduction
Nutrition and Supplementation—A balanced approach to fueling the body.
- How the digestive system works
- HOW you eat is far more important than WHAT you eat
- The priorities for healthy fueling of the body
- How to use Ruben’s Food Ladder, a logical and behavioral approach to food selection
- A strategy for intelligent selection of supplements
Cardiovascular Exercise—Breaking the plateau forever! Learning to raise metabolism.
- How cardiovascular exercise truly works
- The three main levels of cardiovascular exercise (for fitness)
- HOW you exercise is far more important than HOW MUCH you exercise
- How to burn fat all day and all night long!
- How to design a cardio program for you!
Strength and Flexibility—Enjoying life and getting rid of aches and pains!
- How the physiology of muscle development truly works for strength and flexibility
- The key differences between body building and strength training
- How to make your muscles stronger without necessarily making them bulkier
- The three key exercises for a total body strength workout
- How to stretch effectively, some key stretches for health and vitality
Powerful Living—Responsibly and effectively managing stress.
- How stress affects your metabolism, energy, immune system and mental state
- How stress can significantly affect your health
- Identify the three basic stress categories
- How to respond to each type of stress with effective strategies
Completion & New Beginning
- Completion of the coursework
- Developing customized plan of action
- Developing support structure and next steps
Additional seminars Oh, My Aching Back!—Taking charge of chronic back pain.
- How the normal anatomy of the back really works
- How the system breaks down
- How muscle disuse and muscle weakness contribute to back pain
- A proven three-prong approach to resolving most back pain
- Important steps to building muscle strength
- Key strength exercises for strengthening the back
- Important flexibility exercises for improving back structure and relieving pain
Taking Charge of Sprains and Strains—Empowering prevention of common injuries.
- The basic anatomy and structure of the spine, shoulder and knee joints
- How improper lifting and biomechanics can lead to sprains and strains
- How sprains and strains occur
- The steps to reversing the process of sprains and strains
- The principles of proper lifting and injury prevention
- The keys of proper nutrition for building muscle strength
- The keys for effective strength training as a form of prevention
- A strength training routine that can be performed in 15 minutes, daily