This was the keynote address delivered for an MTHR session at Pune in Jan 2011

1. Employee Wellness makes Good Business Sense Cmde Dilip Mohapatra, VSM Suzlon Energy Ltd. 1

3. The Wellness Continuum 3

4. 7 Dimensions of Wellness Emotional Environmental Intellectual Occupational Physical Spiritual Social 4

5. Emotional Wellness Having the ability to feel and express emotions, like happiness, sadness, and anger. Manage stress, possess self-esteem and self-acceptance, and appropriately sharing your feelings with others. skills include: seeking and providing support, learning time management skills, practicing stress management skills, and accepting and forgiving yourself. 5

6. Environmental Wellness Includes protecting the earth and its resources and modifying your surroundings to help you achieve a healthy lifestyle. Ideas: conserve water and other natural resources reduce, reuse, recycle minimize your exposure to chemicals renew your relationship with the earth Modifying your environment to remove or minimize barriers. Example: rearranging your work area to allow you to be more productive. 6

7. Intellectual Wellness Striving to improve your intellect and your creative spark. Examples include: taking a course or workshop learning a foreign language reading for personal enjoyment seeking out persons who challenge you intellectually taking up a hobby. Making health decisions based on solid scientific evidence obtained from reliable sources. 7

8. Occupational Wellness Preparing and making use of your skills and talents. Finding a career that is meaningful, enjoyable and rewarding is vital to job satisfaction. Ideas include: exploring career options creating a vision of your future being open to learning new skills 8

9. Physical Wellness Encompasses a variety of healthy behaviors including: adequate exercise proper nutrition abstaining from harmful behaviors like drug use and alcohol abuse 9

10. Spiritual Wellness Set of beliefs, principles, or values that guide your life. (Not strictly religion) Increase your spiritual well-being by: exploring your spiritual core being inquisitive and curious listen to your heart and following your principles allow yourself and others around you the freedom to be who they are 10

11. Social Wellness Receiving and giving support to family and friends, enhancing diversity and becoming active in issues that you care about. Ideas include: interacting with people of other cultures, backgrounds & beliefs. cultivating healthy relationships sharing your talents and skills contributing to your community communicating your thoughts, ideas and feelings. 11

12. Crossing the Seven C’s Capturing Senior Level Support Creating Cohesive Teams Collecting Data Crafting an Operating Plan Choosing Appropriate Interventions Creating Supportive Environments Carefully Evaluating Outcomes Capture Senior Level Support Carefully Evaluate Outcomes Create A Cohesive Wellness Team Create A Supportive Environment Choose Appropriate Interventions Collecting Data Crafting An Operating Plan 12

14. Physical Activity

15. Nutrition/Weight Control

16. Hypertension

17. Alcohol

18. Seatbelts

19. Mental Health

20. Medical Self-care

21. Stress Management

22. Disease Management

23. Personal Finance

24. Immunization

25. Ergonomics

26. Work/Family13

27. A typical Stress Management Intervention Model Source : Ivancevich (1990) 14

29. HRD professionals should develop the skills and expertise to design & deliver EWP

30. Promoting employee health and well-being can contributes positively to an organization’s bottom line.15

32. Employee counseling encompasses a lot of areas

33. It is an HRD function that:

34. Ensures that employees are now effective contributors to the organization, and that they will continue to be in the future

35. Needs professionals who are qualified to deal with the difficult issues involved with this topic16

37. Employer WINS: increased work performance, reduced health care utilization, moderation of costs, retention and recruitment

38. Community WINS: reduced health risks, higher quality of life, economic impact 17

39. 18 Making Business Sense

40. “The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.” 19 Hippocrates

41. 20 Thanks for your kind Attention I may be contacted at: dilip.mohapatra@suzlon.com