Meal Prep for Work

Challenge

This course idea was developed to assist businesses in office settings to support the wellbeing and self care of employees. Specifically, this topic addresses fatigue, sluggishness, and low productivity during the work day and is directed towards those unfamiliar with meal prep to develop organizational tools and strategies.

Given that around 76% of employees report feeling tired at work, this topic is widely beneficial.

Solution

The topic of food and nutrition is inherently reflective, so I chose to use Rise to allow the learner to work at their own pace and take as much time as needed to complete the tasks included. I provided lots of multimedia resources to keep the leaner engaged and offer opportunities to deepen exploration within the lessons.

The course objective is for the learner to create a complete, week-long meal plan using the template and guidance provided. With that end goal in mind, I created an outline with measurable milestones and developed the topic and lesson themes around those steps. One challenge was that this topic is extremely broad and without conducting live research as part of the needs analysis it was unclear if the course also needed to include food preparation instruction, for example. I opted to streamline the course content for this sample; however, supplementary materials could easily be added as needed.

Result

One way to measure the success of this course would be to survey learners about their types and frequency of their symptoms before and after completing and utilizing a meal prep plan for several weeks.

The reusable resources shared throughout the course such as the meal planning template and energizing foods infographic are key to ensuring the sustainability of employee health and wellbeing so that this training is not just a one-and-done task but rather fosters positive, long-term change.