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In today's dynamic workplace, organizations are increasingly recognizing the pivotal role of professional development in fostering employee engagement and retention. Professional development encompasses various initiatives aimed at enhancing employees' skills, knowledge, and career growth. Let's explore how investing in professional growth development programs can significantly impact employee engagement and retention.

Loyalty is important for any organization. Churn creates a lull in productivity and drags down collective employee morale. Loyal employees means a happy workforce, a productive company and a healthy bottom line. Few organizations do employee loyalty or customer loyalty like American Express. Check out three of their top recommendations to maintain loyalty in your organization.

Offering healthy rewards to your company is a great way to lower the cost of employee healthcare and improve your employees’ wellness while you do! Healthy rewards encourage employees to lead healthier lifestyles by offering them incentives to stay proactive about their health. Even if you already have one in place, expanding your existing employer wellness program can control healthcare costs even more. Workplace wellness programs come in a variety of forms, many of them based on employee participation. Some programs with healthy rewards include:

Managing assets wisely is the hallmark of every successful company. Today's highly competitive environment shines a spotlight on the one resource you depend on most, your employees. Productivity and profitability, intimately tied to worker performance, are suffering due to an alarming rise in obesity and poor health.
Many employers now offer a company wellness programs and institute policies designed to promote healthy lifestyle changes. More than talk, the approach includes a wide range of information, support and healthy lifestyle incentives including cash rewards and gift cards.

Athlete's Performance made a name for itself training elite athletes (think NFL and MLB players) in their off-seasons. Athlete's Performance had recently gone through a rebrand, becoming Exos, and focusing on helping employers reach the maximum potential in employee wellness  in their workforce, both in the gym and in the office. Taking the Athlete's Performance philosophy of intense fitness and rising to the top of the clients field transitions directly into Exos' broader reach theory. Helping employers successfully introduce, apply and follow through on the promise of a wellness program benefits employer and employee insurance costs. Ensuring each employee has their own individual experience and plan to succeed while contributing to the greater goal of the organization is where elite athletics meet employee wellness. Are you treating your employees to elite wellness?
Check out more on how to reach your office's "peak performance" with this article from FastCompany.