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  Wellness and incentive programs can be used to drive and reinforce healthy behaviours.    Employee wellness programs benefits   result in increased employee productivity. After January 1st, the New Year resolution for healthy food, physical fitness, and self-care ended up at KFC, Burger King, and Pizza hut for many corporate employees, primarily due to busy schedules or a lack of motivation. Driving the motivation and enthusiasm among employees to be healthy physically and mentally is what the organizations are prioritizing these days. The traditional forms of motivation which include recognition mail, motivational quotes, wall of fame, and rewards are losing their charm. The increased uncertainty, flexibility at work, virtual team management, and the ever-changing environment demand certain initiations by the organizations such as motivation by doing or experiencing over verbal communications. Thus, the organizations are now clubbing the wellness initiations under...

Come exam time, there is a clearly visible sense of anxiety and fear as students and parents get prepared to face the exam heat. We have all heard accounts of children facing the brunt of exam-related stress which takes a significant toll on their mental health, resulting in panic attacks, blackouts, and even suicidal thoughts. According to research published in the Journal of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences in 2015, close to 80 percent of students suffer from some sort of exam-related stress in India The pressure to perform well comes from an innate desire to perform well in our endeavors and in addition to this the pressure of the expectations that parents, teachers, peers, and more importantly we have from ourselves. While some amount of this stress may boost performance, an excess amount of it can have a detrimental effect. Therefore it is critical that we learn to manage this stress better. Before we look at some tips to master this, stress needs to be acknowledged and its sym...