Firstbeat assessments have been successfully used in corporate wellness programs, occupational health care, management consultation, and rehabilitation. Customer organizations include industries from manufacturing to services and from technology to banking. The selected employee groups have included for example managers and key personnel, shift workers, people who travel a lot and people who do physically strenuous work. In many cases, the assessments have been conducted for the whole organization or division.

The assessment in itself is a mini-intervention, as the feedback often leads to personal insight and lifestyle change. Actionable feedback on how to improve well-being and performance is always included in the process.

Mikael Laine, CEO and Maarit Herranen, Human Resources Director at Moventas are pleased that the company made an investment in well-being in 2010. Firstbeat Lifestyle assessment inspired Moventas executives to find ways to influence their personal wellness and life management skills.

- When a person has the tools to manage their own situation, he or she is willing to change. Improved well-being is reflected in our leadership capacity, Herranen says.

- The last nine months have been so dramatic in our company that if we had not taken care of our well-being, we might not be here, Laine says.

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What happened to sick days in Salo? In 2011, the number of sick days among home care workers in the Finnish city of Salo was 16.3 days per person, on average. A year later, after targeted measures to improve well-being at work had been undertaken, the number had dropped to 11.1, even though illness-related absences seemed to be on the increase in other comparable duties. Over 85% of those involved in this communal effort stated that the activities improved their well-being. What exactly happened?

National Health Service, UK

"My driver to access this course was to identify which was likely to kill me first, being a CEO in today's NHS or simply lifestyle. For me it was lifestyle which won! So I have prioritised where I can, my work /balance, raised my own awareness of stress and how to counterbalance that and take care of myself a little better than before."
- CEO NHS Foundation Trust Hospital

"The workshop has provided me with personal insight into how my personal well-being does impact on my performance. It has also given me some very practical skills/techniques to enable me to be healthier and to perform even more effectively. This was particularly useful when I had to manage a very difficult issue at work, which I know I was able to handle even more effectively by drawing on the knowledge I had gained through the experience.
        I have also shared my learning with my immediate team and they have found some of the practical advice beneficial. In summary, this has been a very cost effective way of ensuring that I am a happier, healthier and even more effective leader."
- CEO NHS Mental Health Trust

Fit im Job

Lifestyle Assessments are used successfully as part of comprehensive Stress management seminars in Switzerland. Read a reference case here >>

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 International Forest Industry Company

Results from 1,500 Lifestyle Assessments Convince Medical Director.

A total of 1,500 Lifestyle assessments have been performed for the employees of an international forest industry company. The experience-based data convinced Chief Occupational Health Physician Tero Kemppainen of the tool's benefits.

”Employees have felt that they have received practical tips on how to really improve their coping strategies. This also encourages us to keep going”, says Kemppainen.

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