How Much Physical Inactivity Costs You

3. Provide training and development. Support your employees in making meaningful health-related changes. Training and development programs help define opportunities for change, explore the personal and professional values that guide change and develop results-oriented plans.

4. Foster a healthy work environment. No bread will bake in a cold oven. Do your organizational culture and facility support health? Do your employees have access to showers? Do you have no-smoking policies? Flex time? Maternity/paternity leave? Turn up the oven and watch the culture in your organization rise.

5. Create physical activity/community incentives. You may not be able to offer an on-site fitness center, but you can create your own physical-activity incentive program. How about giving out pedometers and encouraging your staff to get at least 10,000 steps/day? Or recognizing team members who swear off the elevator to use the stairs? How about starting a lunchtime running or cycling group? You'd be surprised how creative people can get when they're outside moving together.