Corporate business de-stress: the spa service dividend

Successful corporate business maintains an unflinching focus on net profits and shareholder dividends, but management may risk underestimating the significant correlation between less than optimum productivity and the effects of excessive stress.

Entrepreneurs, corporate professionals, key executives and owner-managers who personally bear the constant pressures accompanying rapidly emerging, successful commercial enterprises, may unexpectedly fall victim to the common pathology of 'time starvation'. We may feel overwhelmed and smothered by deadlines and commitments, wondering, "How can I keep going until Friday?" Smart executives anticipate such negative scenarios and recognize the necessity - and positive payback - of consistently rewarding their teams with spa treatments to counteract the effects of stress. This forward-thinking approach makes total economic sense. It delivers a critical morale boost with a consequential increase in productivity. The solution is simple: the spa. The very word is like a fresh, fragrant spring breeze after a long cold winter. We exercise three times per week, eat right, take vitamins, try to get eight hour's sleep and manage stress as best as we can. However, when the going gets tough we romanticize about escaping and indulging in the warm therapeutic solitude of the spa experience. Calm to yourself with a vision of being enveloped in the soothing, true spa environment, sensing all tension dissolve as you take time to appraise some current commercial situation from the longer perspective of leisure and secure restfulness. You will be drawn to the tranquil atmosphere of the spa when you are most exhausted. You yearn to be that solitary mystic in former times as you mentally cross the threshold into the classic spa experience to devote a little time in silent prayer while drawing motivational inspiration from the spiritual writings of the period. Then you experience release from physical and psychological burdens and escape, free of oppression. At the end of this cathartic process you feel energized, recharged with renewed interest in current projects, and re-armed with an enthusiastic drive. The classic spa experience offers indispensable support to individuals whose role is to lead their business team, meet with clients - personal and corporate - and live with the risks of on-going decision-making. Attending the spa can contribute hugely to sublimating some of the negative aspects of stress derived from the workplace. Your staff, colleagues, yourself as C.E.O. - and very logically, your consumers - will all benefit from a strategic decision to go with the 'Spa Solution Corporate De-Stress'. They will be glad that you took the enlightened decision to build it into the overall costing. You will not regret the move.