Posts archive for 2020

Rewards to Use for Your Employee Wellness Program

December 8, 2020 Corporate Wellness Comments Off on Rewards to Use for Your Employee Wellness Program
An important part of any corporate wellbeing program or wellness challenge is the rewards or incentives you provide for your employees. Using the right rewards to motivate employees not only increases participation rates but also may help employees keep up their healthy habits after your program ends.  Instead of one grand prize, it’s better to [...]
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Using step challenges to fundraise for charity

December 1, 2020 Announcements Comments Off on Using step challenges to fundraise for charity
For September and October PUML partnered with LIVIN to support them in their work of ending the stigma around mental health issues. We hosted two step challenges to motivate people to get moving. We had a great turnout with 731 participants in both challenges combined with 238 users competing in both the September and October [...]
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Planning a Corporate Wellness Program – Questions to Ask

November 21, 2020 Corporate Wellness Comments Off on Planning a Corporate Wellness Program – Questions to Ask
There are so many different types of workplace wellness programs, it can be overwhelming deciding what works for your business. At the end of your wellness initiative, the goal is for your employees to think more about their health and make healthier decisions. When you put your employees’ needs at the center of your wellness [...]
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Encouraging Social Wellness at Work

October 27, 2020 Corporate Wellness Comments Off on Encouraging Social Wellness at Work
What is Social Wellness? Humans naturally crave social connection. Familial bonds, close friendships and romantic relationships all play a part in maintaining healthy social connections in our lives. However, social wellbeing expands beyond just our close relationships. Social wellbeing is a sense of belonging to a community and making a contribution to society. It involves [...]
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Your Health in Isolation

October 21, 2020 Health & Wellness Comments Off on Your Health in Isolation
There have been a number of articles on how your health could be impacted by isolation. We’ve decided to talk about ways to combat some common side effects from this year of social isolation. Everyone is different, so you should choose what areas of your health have been impacted the most and take a few [...]
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Team Building & Your Step Challenge

October 17, 2020 Corporate Wellness Comments Off on Team Building & Your Step Challenge
A sense of team or community can make your workplace more fun and effective. A great way to build this is through a company wellness challenge. Here are three ways a wellness challenge can help your team beyond just the physical health benefits. Accountability In a fitness challenge, you want your employees to interact with [...]
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Prevent Disease with your Corporate Wellness Program

October 7, 2020 Corporate Wellness Comments Off on Prevent Disease with your Corporate Wellness Program
A new study has been released looking at the ways to increase your number of “disease-free years” as you age. The researchers analysed different combinations of lifestyle factors to see how they correlate with the number of disease-free years an individual has in their lifetime. What they found is that of 16 different lifestyle profiles [...]
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PUML is a Proud Supporter of LIVIN

August 25, 2020 Announcements Comments Off on PUML is a Proud Supporter of LIVIN
PUML is happy to support LIVIN, a charity dedicated to ending the stigma around mental health issues. LIVIN is all about living your life at the top and breaking the stigma around mental health through connecting, supporting and encouraging one another to talk about their feelings and challenges because “It Ain’t Weak to Speak”. LIVIN [...]
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Interview Series: Sheree Beaumont

August 23, 2020 Inside PUML Comments Off on Interview Series: Sheree Beaumont
This article is part of a series to give you an inside look at PUML. We are interviewing team members to learn about their journey in the fitness world and their take on what PUML is doing for the wellness community. [tek_sectiontitle st_title="Why were you interested in joining PUML?" st_title_tag="h4" st_subtitle_decoration="" st_separator_enable="separator_off" st_text_align="text-left" st_width="st_fullwidth"] I [...]
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Interview Series: Mary Scholten

August 12, 2020 Inside PUML Comments Off on Interview Series: Mary Scholten
This article is part of a series to give you an inside look at PUML. We are interviewing team members to learn about their journey in the fitness world and their take on what PUML is doing for the wellness community. [tek_sectiontitle st_title="Why were you interested in joining PUML?" st_title_tag="h4" st_subtitle_decoration="" st_separator_enable="separator_off" st_text_align="text-left" st_width="st_fullwidth"] What [...]
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