Many barriers can occur when you are working in your workplace. Sometimes you feel very energetic, sometimes you feel very bored. Stress may also affect you. These unwanted barriers can spoil your whole day and diminish your productivity at work and ultimately affect your business performance. Nobody wishes to experience those but it does happen regardless of your business industry, location or length you have been working for an organisation.

However sport can significantly help you with not only cope with work issues such as pressure, stress, priority changes but also improve your overall business productivity of you and your teams.

Remember sports and health are the two sides of the same coin. It affects every aspect of your health including mental, physical and emotional health.

Productivity and sports 

Research show that sport and recreation have a large positive effect on raising morale, motivation, productivity, better mood and atmosphere in the working environment.

Sports can be a great way to establish bonding with coworkers. When conducting sports with coworkers, it establishes connections. When more and more people are being connected (by doing regular sport activities together), they become more loyal to the company they work for.  We know having a good connection, bonding and good communication is the prerequisite to increase productivity. Sports help productivity go up and company loyalty gets a boost too.

Introducing stimulating sports among the employees is beneficial for both employees and employers.

Benefits of sports to workplace

A lot of companies are now realizing that the role of physical exercise has a positive impact to increase profitability. Key benefits below (but not limited to those) are

• Encourage and foster stronger teamwork : Nowadays teamwork is a very familiar word. Sometimes making a team becomes the first priority for the company. sports is the basic and fundamental area to know how a team works. You can use this experience in the practical workplace.

• Enhance creativity: Showing your performance to your boss creativity can undoubtedly be a magic . Some reports show that during exercise some creative ideas may come to your brain . You can use this new creative idea at your workplace to represent yourself as everybody wants unique idea.

• Reduce stress : During work hours you might face a lot of work pressure. you may find your regular office task more hard and bored. Actually it happens when you do not find any time for relaxation. If you can involve yourself with some sports and exercise besides your regular office work , you can reduce stress and your contribution to your company may increase twice even before.

Ideas to bring sports in workplace:

• Motivate and encourage staff to watch and or attend sport events together. For example, many organisation are now organizing sport activities during lunch break such as running or yoga. Also during big sport event such as the football world cup, they watch the games together either in the office or in a bar nearby

• Encourage and promote health in your team. In the end it is up to the management to ensure their employees feel good and can produce their bests. It is in their own interest to have physical and mentally healthy people. For example, one easy way to do that is to have bowling or pool night. Those sports are easily accessible, do not require any training and are fun to do

• Introduction the notions and concepts of sport, when you are about to launch a new product or start a new project. Remind people, in the end it is all about Teamwork, Positive spirit, sense of sacrifice to do what is need for the team. Focus on the end game and share the objectives very clearly with the group. Remind them, each people has a key role to play and that we can only achieve success if we collaborate and work as a team. As we say TEAM = Together Everyone Achieves More

• Give recruitment responsibilities to some employees who are very specialized in sports or have strong and long sporting experience. Encourage those specialize employees to train their coworkers .

• Encourage but never force someone to do sport if this person doesn’t feel confortable.
• Create a ‘No internal-phone day’: this concept is to agree on a specific day where employees are not allowed to use their phone. Instead they need to speak to people directly. This will have positive effect on seating and back pain issue, and it will make your people move.

For strengthening team cohesion, social bonding and team spirit sport can be reliable motivation. Body welfare and soundness will affect the minds of employees.

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