Dear Simon

Fire Up Fitness Program: Maurice Blackburn

This letter is to thank you and the Fire Up Fitness team for the Corporate Program that you ran with us at Maurice Blackburn this year.

The feedback from the program has been excellent, with all staff who participated advising that they enjoyed the program and that it resulted in fitness benefits for them. Personally, I enjoyed noticing my fitness increase over the five weeks of the program. The tailoring of the various activities to the wide range of fitness levels in the group was excellent.

I also appreciated the flexibility of the Fire Up team in attending locations close to Maurice Blackburn workplaces, and suggesting alternative locations for particular activities.

However, in my view, the greatest benefit of Fire Up was the program’s ability to facilitate interaction between members of various teams within the workplace, who would ordinarily not work together or know each other well. The focus on team work and group motivation, rather than intimidation and fear as we’d experienced in previous programs, was incredibly positive. By training together, program participants were able to get to know people on a social level and I have seen frequent examples of this translating to more effective working relationships.

Thanks again for an excellent addition to our Health and Wellbeing Program. We look forward to further programs in 2009.

Best wishes,

Claire Brown
Human Resource Manager
MAURICE BLACKBURN