Posted by Worksite Health | Posted in Wellness Programs, worksite health | Posted on 15-02-2011
In today’s fast paced world our busy lives leave little time, energy, or motivation for people to focus on their own needs.
Those that do seek to improve their wellness traditionally turn to friends, family, professionals and published materials for support and information. All too often those support structures fail to make a lasting difference.
This happens for a number of reasons. Friends and family might not be capable of helping. Working with specialists is time eating and expensive and very few of us are effective at taking published, generic information and applying it to our own lives.
Gold’s Health Club Winston-Salem has developed a new web-based wellness program that expands the range of support available to those wishing to make healthful lifestyle changes.
The health promotion program, Gold’s Gym Wellness Coach, focuses on the everyday challenges of making positive lifestyle changes and has the advantages of being more customized and efficient than generic, published information and less intense and expensive than expert face-to-face counseling.
Utilizing a collaborative problem-solving model the goal isn’t to give advice, but rather to help person think through the issues and come to their own conclusions.
The coach offers ideas for consideration, helps the individual generate ideas of their own, helps the individual consider the various ideas, pick a direction, and then supports them in the implementation of their decision.
Challenging the conventional wisdom that relationship formation requires in-person interaction; Gold’s Fitness Club has found that members and coaches can easily build meaningful relationships via online communication.
Utilizing industry leading technology a Gold’s Health Club Wellness Coach can offer members a secure, user-friendly personal website where they can access their coach in a real-time or via email with responses delivered in less than 24 hours.
The site permits coaches to hand pick relevant articles that are written on a consumer level and that are targeted to the issue at hand and add them to a member’s online personal library.
The site also contains various wellness programs and tools which are designed to assist the coach and member to set, implement and track specific objectives.
The collaborative relationship formed between member and coach enhances the quality ice and efficiency of service. The familiarity that a coach develops with a member’s circumstances and significant relationships permits them over time to more rapidly offer useful ideas and assistance.
With traditional call-in assistance lines, the time intensive exercise of getting background and contextual information is repeated each time. IN that scenario efficiency is lost.
Further, Gold’s Health Club Health Coach has developed a protocol based on key principals from the field of psychotherapy and behavior modification.
The protocol is embedded within a proprietary problem-solving that is based on the concept that people often act without a good understanding of a problem. Their responses then complicate matters and often make matters worse.
Gold’s Gym Health Coach offers the opportunity to step back, take a second look at what has going on, and quickly asses the factors influencing the situation. But, having an idea of “what” to do is very different than actually “doing” something about it.
People need help with the follow-through. Additionally, after figuring out “what” to do, Gold’s Fitness Center Health Coach focuses on implementation.
Here Gold’s Fitness Center Wellness Coach builds on sound research and experience from the field of behavior modification that has to do with goal-establishing and with implementation support.
The end result is a highly personalized, effective, user-friendly way of bettering the wellness of an individual. The efficient nature of the web-based relationship permits Gold’s Fitness Center Wellness Coach to keep the price point within reach of virtually whoever.
