#A2A Stepnell before their London Challenge |
Our Average2Awesome Programme is now in
its eighth generation and has once again proved its worth with its latest set
of candidates from Stepnell Ltd, a building and construction company whose head
office is in Rugby.
I met Joint Managing Director, Tom
Wakeford, whilst running the 2017 Marathon des Sables. We ran the marathon stage together and shared our thoughts on business, health and well-being in
the workplace, staff development and the process of adapting to change.
Stepnell is a company in the process of change, so Tom decided to test out our A2A Programme on 12 members of staff based in and
around their Rugby office. Following an inspirational talk in June, 12
candidates were chosen from across the business, none of whom were dedicated
keep-fit fanatics or marathon runners. They were just people keen to see if
they could achieve more with their time and gain from being coached by someone
from outside the business in an area where their comfort-zone would be severely
tested.
Since the talk they have attended a number of sessions - at the gym learning the most efficient way to train, at a running store getting fitted properly for training shoes and up and down a hill being pushed in an interval training session. In three months they have clocked a cumulative total of six million steps and lost over 80kg. They have vowed to continue with their new daily fitness routine and insure a return on the investment the business has made putting them through the A2A Programme.
The visual difference is
clear to see and we are planning some continued evaluation over the next few months to
see the fruition of the 'Anything is Possible' approach we've projected into the group these past few months.
We've learned a lot too, and as we head into the ninth generation of A2A, this time with Stepnell's Poole office, we will again be searching for 12 people who want to be more dynamic in the workplace and lead a healthier, happier and more rewarding life both in and out of work.
Rory Coleman - 999 Marathons - 244 Ultras
14 Marathon des Sables - 9 Guinness World Records
14 Marathon des Sables - 9 Guinness World Records
Location: Cardiff, Wales.
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