EDGE Group Exercise Classes
Description – The EDGE Group exercise classes provide participants the opportunity to engage in energy-boosting activity during the workday. Some classes require more space than others, while others are held outside or in boardrooms. Some classes may include: yoga, pilates, kickboxing, tai chi, Get Fit Alliance, Learn to Run, Walk/Run groups.
Objectives – Encouraging activity throughout the day is an important component to improving productivity and energy in the afternoon. Participant accountability is also prominent in this setting.
EDGE Lunch n’ Learns
Description – The EDGE lunch n’ learn programs take into account the needs and interests of each company. Employer’s Edge and its strategic network of wellness professionals educate employee groups and organizations on various topics of personal health, worksite dynamics, familial health, financial health, ergonomics, and other wellness topics conducive to the population.
Objectives – Group sessions encourage a healthy workplace culture, boost morale, may improve overall productivity, and provide a forum for discussion and idea sharing.
EDGE Step into the Season Campaign
Description – The EDGE Step into the Season campaigns are walking promotions. Step into Spring, Step into Summer or Step into September offer customized walking routes, email campaigns, and accountability tools that help organizations get moving.
Objectives – Effective awareness campaigns promote overall health and lead to acquiring healthy behaviours.
EDGE Workshops (6-8 weeks)
Description – The EDGE Workshops are facilitated over a number of weeks. Each week, a group session is delivered with follow up individual accountability tasks for the next week. Some of the workshops include Work-Life Balance, Extreme Lifestyle Makeover, Easy Nutrition for Life, Healthy Hearts, The Biggest Loser, Empowered Living Program, or Get Up and GO to name a few.
Objectives – Consecutive group sessions allow for continuity of participants, sharing of ideas, supportive environments, overall morale boosting and culture shifting in the organization.
EDGE Staff Days (4-5 Hour program)
Description - Ever looking toThe EDGE staff day is designed with the needs and interests of the organization in mind. It may incorporate team building, problem solving, empowering relationships, personality learning, human behavior understanding, and positive interaction in the workplace. Keynote speakers are invited to present the material. This workshop may then be followed with the EDGE Amazing Pace…and Hunt lending interaction and fun among staff.
Objectives – From the management level to the front line staff, understanding human behaviour and relationships is absolutely imperative for an organization to be successful. The DISC model allows staff to learn how to interact more effectively. This not only is true in the workplace, but understanding clients more effectively is also an objective following this training. “If I understand you and you understand me, doesn’t it make sense that we can have a better relationship?” Dr. Rohm, Personality Insights
The Amazing Pace…and Hunt combines a 5-station team building race that includes physical, emotional and nutritional awareness and a unique Scavenger Hunt. Following the DISC workshop, teams better communicate, strategize, and work together in achieving common goal in the race.
EDGE Facility Design & Management
Description – Employer’s Edge works with the organization is designing a facility that is conducive to the population. Facility operations and programs within the confines of the workplace are also managed by Employer’s Edge.
Objectives - An on-site exercise facility has shown to support retention and attraction of staff. It also boosts morale, the corporate culture, and overall productivity.