Promoting walking in spring - our top tips

This is the latest in a series of top tips which are created to ensure that your employees are not only walking to and from work, but walking more within the workplace.

Now that the days are getting longer and the mornings are a bit brighter, it's a good time to promote walking to work as people start feeeling naturally more energised with the spring season. Hopefully most of you will have Walk to Work Week under your belt and so a keen audience of happy walkers so here are some ideas for how to keep them going.

Promote these amongst staff and you'll be one step closer to showing your commitment to a walking-friendly workplace, and a healthy, happy workforce!

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• Free brekkie for walkers - There's nothing quite like food to get employees motivated. A free breakfast if they have walked at least 20 minutes to work always kickstarts walking as well as team spirit!
• Clever publicity - Publicise the right points about walking. For example, there has been much research to suggest that we are more productive after exercise. Jim McKenna, Professor of Sport at Leeds Met, found that 65% of workers had better quality of work, mental performance and time management on the days when they exercised.
• Company reminder in diary - Choose a regular date once a week or once a month, and set this up in all staff calendar, set with a reminder which goes out the day preceding, encouraging everyone to walk at least 15 minutes on their walk to work the next day.
• Caffeine fix - For those employees who can't function without a coffee in the morning, organise a free coffee for whoever has walked to work for more than 20 minutes, whether this is from the staff canteen or a local coffee shop.

For more ideas download the full top tips information sheet -    walking_in_the_morning.pdf (65.05 Kb)

Other top tips
Download these top tips by clicking on the link below:

  10_ways_to_make_walking_more_interesting.pdf (92.53 Kb)

  maximising_walking_time.pdf (125.52 Kb)

  walking_in_the_workplace.pdf (69.57 Kb)

  promoting_walking_in_winter.pdf (245.17 Kb)