Corporate Wellness Blog

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, experts 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 professionals 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 Fitness Center Winston-Salem has created a new web-based health promotion program that expands the range of support available to those wishing to make healthful lifestyle changes.

The wellness program, Gold’s Fitness Club Wellness Coach, focuses on the daily challenges of making positive lifestyle changes and has the benefits of being more customized and efficient than generic, published information and less intense and costly than specialist face-to-face counseling.

Utilizing a collaborative problem-solving model the goal is not to give advice, but rather to help person think through the issues and come to their own conclusions.

The coach offers ideas for consideration, assists the individual generate ideas of their own, assists the individual consider the various ideas, choose 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 Health Club has found that members and coaches have the ability to build significant relationships via web-based communication.

Utilizing industry leading technology a Gold’s Fitness Club Health 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 authorizes coaches to hand choose 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 internet based personal library.

The site also contains various health promotion 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 allows 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 Fitness Center Health Coach has created 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 theory that individuals  often act without a good understanding of a problem. Their responses then complicate matters and often make matters worse.

Gold’s Fitness Club Wellness 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.

Individuals  need help with the follow-through. Now, 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-setting and with implementation support.

The end result is a highly customized, effective, user-friendly way of bettering the wellness of an individual.  The efficient nature of the web-based relationship allows Gold’s Fitness Club Wellness Coach to keep the price point within reach of virtually anyone.