Case study: Pepsico UK & Ireland
Fit For Life Scheme
PepsiCo understands that to continually embrace life balance at
work, it needs to offer more than just policies and benefits to its
employees. It has developed a programme called Fit For Life,
which is supported by professional consultants who specialise
in health and wellness.
The initiative is designed to help individuals to identify areas
within their current lifestyles which are causing imbalance and
then support them to drive sustainable change by using a
personal external phone coach for three months following the
workshop.
As life-balance is such a personal area, the programme
deliberately covers a broad range of topics, and allows
individuals to build a personal plan of the areas most relevant
to them. The element of personal choice is critical to the
overall approach, as it ensures that individuals are committed
to a self-managed programme of change while taking personal
responsibility to make a difference.
The programme is set out in three stages:
- Stage One: Prework. An MOT me. Builds self-awareness of
current life balance and wellness issues
- Stage Two: Fit for Life workshop. An innovative and high
energy intervention, to build further levels of self-awareness.
Learn tips and techniques. Start to think about personal
change plan
Stages One and Two cover a broad range of subject
areas (stress, sleep patterns, nutrition, exercise patterns,
psychological barriers to achieving better balance), to help give
employees insight into which issues are relevant for them.
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Stage Three: Personal Coach. Employees can book followup
calls with their personal coach to review their personal
plan and make progress. This is an opportunity to go deeper into the chosen
subjects, to drive sustainable
change
The programme has been a huge success; over 30% of
PepsiCo's employees have attended the programme so far, and
another 20% are signed up to the next programme.
PepsiCo will continue to roll out the programme to ensure
it touches a critical mass of employees, but it also wants to
ensure it leverages the full potential of this initiative to drive
sustainable cultural change.
The focus on life-balance has continued to evolve through
a number of other projects, from smaller initiatives such as
offering healthier food choices in the workplace – there is a Fit
for Life choice each day in the restaurant – to displaying visible
health and fitness information around the offices reinforcing the
Fit For Life messages.
This programme was highly commended at the 2008 and 2006 Community Partnership
Awards: Workplace Community Category
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More Information
FDF has published a booklet called Workplace Wellbeing: The Food Industry in Action - pdf | 1.2Mb, which features many of the schemes found in this section.
Last reviewed: 25 Mar 2009