December 2, 2014 by Interpersonal Wellness Services Inc

Many people I met were telling me they hated their jobs

Were these people chronic complainers? Some were but many were individuals who truly had a lot to give and wanted more from their jobs. More fulfillment and more purpose in their lives. I felt that through a coach training certification program, I could offer them a new beginning. I could help them realize their dreams of a new career or a new start in life. Many have since gained the tools to start their own businesses.

So what kind of training should I offer? I didn’t want to offer just another coach one-o-one training program. I wanted to provide people with the opportunity to expand their learning and gain sound personal and professional development. This way, they could become the very best coaches with advanced skills that allowed them to be flexible in their practice thus able to work with a wider range of clients. I am happy to say that most of the learners who entered the WIS coach institute have had their dreams fulfilled. Some have even had transformation of heart and learnt to love their jobs. I now have a real, full proof option for those I meet who hate their jobs.

Are you looking to do something great in 2015? You too can learn how to coach others who hate their jobs or a looking for a career change or just need a new beginning. Many retirees are becoming coaches so keep that in mind if you are just finishing your career.

To Your Wellness

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Joyce Odidison is Canada’s leading Wellness Improvement Expert and Coach. Joyce is creator of the Wellness Improvement System (WIS) programs, which includes the Workplace Wellness Assistance Program (WWAP), the WIS Wellness assessment Instrument and the WIS Coach training Institute. Joyce support people and organizations to improve their well-being and the wellness of their workplaces. To get in touch with Joyce or learn about her wellness improvement coaching work go here: www.interpersonalwellness.com

December 1, 2014 by Interpersonal Wellness Services Inc

Do you know someone who is not doing well?

Do you know someone who is sick, struggling to maintain their health, wellness or need stress relief? The holidays can exaggerate health and wellness issues. Last week one of my clients came into our scheduled session but before we got started, he told me about his sister who needed stress relief and wellness support He asked if he could purchase a copy of the Wellness Assessment instrument we were working with so he could provide it to his sister. In his words: “this has helped me so much I am hoping it will help her too. You too can help someone you love improve their wellness by giving them a copy of our wellness assessment booklet. They are only $12 in our store. Click here to order and help a loved one through the holidays.

The month of December is a very difficult month for many folks, while some enjoy the time with friends and family, loneliness and isolation becomes magnified for others. It is also a time when many people get attacked by stress related illnesses and diseases. Often, pain and fear assail many. Don’t let yourself fall prey to the business and stresses of December. I am bringing back the very popular “Holiday Stress Relief and Wellness Improvement” webinar. I will make the announcement later this week so keep watching.

To Your Wellness

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November 30, 2014 by Interpersonal Wellness Services Inc

Stop the Pain in Your Life!

Why do people withdraw when they are in pain or facing difficult situations in their lives? This past week, I met two individuals who told me they recently went through a very difficult time in their lives. When we are going through tough painful episodes in life, we often go into isolation mode. This is the wrong approach that keeps us in a state of negative trance or limiting thoughts. During these times, the best course of action is to reach out to a trusted professional or friend to gain a different perspective, share how you are feeling with someone who can hold keep your confidence and positively stimulate you out of your low point. Gossip is the last thing you want to be dealing with when you are in pain so ensure they can hold your confidence. You don’t have to suffer pain and heartache alone.

Find someone who can help you think outside the box, often the answer(s) to your problem is waiting for you to pose the right question and its waiting just outside the box that hold your problems. I want to encourage you today, no matter what you are going through if you change the focus of your thoughts and engage in a positive discussion, you will find yourself gaining some clarity and momentum. We have a form on our website that people complete when they are not sure whether to stay in pain or move forward with support. You are welcome to complete too. It may help you gain some clarity for yourself. Click this link to get help to assess your situation. There is no obligation to filling out this form. We will only call you if you tell us to call you.

To Your Wellness

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November 12, 2014 by Interpersonal Wellness Services Inc

We Develop Wellness Experts

We define a wellness expert as someone who uses a sound knowledge of wellness theory and practice to facilitate wellness conversations, conduct wellness assessments, coach wellness improvement strategies and design wellness action plans. Wellness experts provide support for clients to improve their overall wellness in multiple life dimensions, independently or while they work with other health professionals.

Do you have what it takes to become a wellness expert?

Our wellness experts are supporting clients to live well in all areas of their physical dimension, as well as emotional, social, intellectual, occupational, spiritual, interpersonal and financial. Working with a wellness coach, who graduates from our program gives you the confidence that you are in good hands and allows you to become familiar with a wider and much broader perspective in your life. Take some time to assess how well you are doing in your life today.

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Joyce Odidison is a Conflict Analyst, Strategist and Workplace Wellness Coach and creator of the Workplace Wellness Assistance Program (WWAP) and the WIS Wellness assessment Instrument. Joyce leads a team of WIS coaches who work with leaders and employees in organizations to improve their well-being and the wellness of their workplaces. To get in touch with Joyce or learn about her wellness improvement coaching work go here: www.interpersonalwellness.com

November 11, 2014 by Interpersonal Wellness Services Inc

Stop the Pain at Work Campaign

Would you know if you employee was being bullied, harassed or abused at work?

Millions of employees go to work daily in pain, and no one cares. Sandy the middle manager is so hurt by the way she is being treated. She is being abused by her Director and has been contemplating suicide. Carol the young supervisor, has been mistreated by her peers so she has decides to leave the company. Harry the new manager, is being harassed by co-workers and has tendered his resignation. Monk the ED, is being tormented by a renegade board member, which in turn, made him consider other opportunities. All of these employees have suffered undue pain at work and have shared their stories with their friends and families and are being encouraged to leave the organization to seek a position with a company where they will be respected and treated with dignity.

In our ‘Stop the pain at work’ campaign, we are partnering with organizations to expose painful actions and provide fast responses to undesirable behavior in the workplace. We are working with organizations to improve the workplace culture, improve employee interactions, and stop workplace abuse.

Are you someone who is experiencing workplace pain? Who do you know that is experiencing workplace pain? Please send them this link, and we will partner with them to stop the pain, so they can work well, live well, and play well!

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August 13, 2014 by Interpersonal Wellness Services Inc

A Leadership Coaching is a Necessity for Every Size Business

Are you committed to attaining the highest level of success possible for yourself and your organization?

If you are an entrepreneur, manager, supervisor, team leader, educator or service professional, you owe it to yourself and those you lead to investigate leadership coaching. Every leader should have a way to attain personal growth, examine fears and limiting behaviours to improve efficiencies in their business.

If you work alone, you are probably juggling conflicting priorities and have many decisions you need to make. In that case, leadership coaching will free you up to think clearer and execute the actions necessary, to attain your success faster.

Leadership coaching will provide you with the thinking partnership and support to reach your goals three to six times faster than on your own. There is also the benefit of having a neutral third party to help you stay accountable to getting all the important things done.

If you want to grow your business, reach new business goals or have more influence with customers and those you lead, you will greatly benefit from a leadership coaching program in your organization. Gain strategies to ensure that you are equipped to motivate and engage with those you lead at a high level, to increase engagement and improve performance to grow your bottom line.

The key benefits to a leadership program will be to increase profitability, customer service and lead your team efficiently. Here are a few examples of how you can improve with leadership coaching, hence the fast results and increase profitability to your business:

Goal Setting – leadership coaching allows you to set bold audacious goals and receive the support to make it happen, set goals to increase revenue, expand your business or increase market share with the motivation and accountability partnership of a coach
Relationship Building – leadership coaching sharpens your relationship skills, allowing you to engage in dialogue that changes the way your employees think and serve your organization
Leadership Values – leadership coaching will help you align your personal values to your professional outcomes for more satisfaction and personal confidence, allowing you to have more influence with clients and employees, thus realizing faster results.
Leadership Communication – leadership coaching allows you to develop your communication skills by becoming a better listener, thus learning more about your customers and employees, thereby increasing your ability to meet their needs and improve customer satisfaction
Coaching Conversations – leadership coaching prepares you to have tough conversations with employees and customers that can improve your working condition, correct customer service errors and renew your relationship, thereby ensuring loyal customers and employees
Leading and Encouraging Change – leadership coaching prepares you to lead and encourage change in your organization, allowing you to connect with clients and employees effectively so you can motivate and influence innovation and change.

If these are areas you want to develop in your organization, take the first step today to develop a leadership coaching program that suits your needs and your budget. Ask me how.

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August 4, 2014 by Interpersonal Wellness Services Inc

Coaching allows employees to thrive Part 1

Ever had an employee with really great technical skills but has self-esteem and other interpersonal issues where he is unable to sell himself or engage with a team in an effective way? How does a manager work with an employee like this? Do you say: “Jim you need to work on your self-esteem issues”? You may try but this will not get you or Jim very far. You are likely to alienate Jim with this approach, as he will become defensive and claim not to have an issue. He is likely to resist your suggestions to improve or he will not know the first step of where to begin working on his these issues. If Jim is open, you may even suggest a book that he should read and he very well may try all the things written in the book you suggest. However, until Jim has had opportunity to become aware of the way he thinks about his actions and their impact there is very little change that can happen. I see many Jim’s in my work as a workplace wellness expert and coach. In my role, I help Jim to reflect on his current situation, visualize where he wants to go and to identify any thoughts or actions that may be getting in his way. This puts Jim in the driver’s seat for self-awareness to happen. As Jim maps out where he is and where he wants to go, he becomes aware of what else he can or should do to thrive. Jim becomes connected and enthusiastic about his own transformation, leaving me open to help him clarify his thoughts and try on new perspectives that best matches his new outlook. We will look are part II of how coaching allows employees to thrive next time.

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Joyce Odidison is a Conflict Analyst, Strategist and Workplace Wellness Coach and creator of the Wellness Improvement System (WIS) programs, consisting of Workplace Wellness Assistance Program (WWAP) and the WIS Wellness assessment Instrument. Joyce leads a team of WIS coaches who work with employees in organizations to thrive by improving their well-being and the wellness of their workplaces. To get in touch with Joyce or learn about her wellness improvement coaching work go here: www.interpersonalwellness.com

July 3, 2014 by Interpersonal Wellness Services Inc

Sexual Wellness at Work

This blog post is in response to a colleague who challenged me to address sexual wellness as an important interpersonal skill that affects human interpersonal wellness. According to him, most of the interpersonal conflicts and challenges in our world have troubling elements of sexual distortions. He argues that if we had a higher level of consciousness about sex, the world would be a much happier and peaceful place. I agree with him, that distorted thinking and beliefs about sex is a key factor in most sexual harassment complaints, workplace conflicts and incidents in which I have intervened.

Over the last few years, I have conducted several sexual harassment investigations. With an increase of diversity in the workplace, there are diverse perspectives on sexual correctness. Left unaddressed for too long, these issues escalate at an alarming rate. Lately, I’ve been encountering sexual misconduct in all ages and groups. After spending years analyzing the issues and actions of sexual misconduct leading up to a complaint, I realize that organizations need to clearly define their expectations of sexual correctness in the workplace.

Failure to do so is to imply that everyone has the same beliefs or values about sex. Too often issues arise that go unacknowledged, allowing them to escalate further. The following is an example of varying understandings of sexual correctness in the workplace:

A female employee is accosted by her male co-worker. He is upset that she is spending time with another male co-worker, apparently had she spent a great deal of time with during his recent divorce, he is upset that she is sharing her time with other co-workers.

A manager shared dirty sex jokes with his female employees that left them feeling embarrassed and uncomfortable in his presence.

An executive on a business trip went out for drinks with a female colleague after their meeting, she later filed a sexual harassment complaint; though there is no allegation of impropriety, she claimed to have felt coerced to attend.

Sarah wears very short dresses to the office that leave nothing to the imagination, a customer propositioned her. Said she reminded him of his play thing.

Dan calls Joan, “darling” and “sweet thing” and propositions her even after she told him she was married and didn’t appreciate his endearments. He claimed this is the way he talks to women.

Sexual misinterpretations, confusion and tensions have increasingly become a problem in workplaces over the years. How is a workplace to address issues of sexual wellness? All your employees come to the job with different perspectives on sex and sexual correctness, which includes propositioning and accessing sex. It is your responsibility to set the appropriate sexual wellness tone in your organization.

The Workplace Wellness Assistance Program® (WWAP) offers support to organizations on defining and setting a sexual correctness tone to improve sexual wellness at work.

Here are some tips to improve the sexual wellness culture at work; use clear guidelines, policies and procedures that acknowledge the problem, create awareness and educate employees on what is expected. Create dialogue to foster understanding and encourage compliance.

If you are looking for open dialogue on sexual wellness at work this fall, I would be happy to help you facilitate the process effectively.

To Your Wellness,

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Joyce Odidison is a Conflict Analyst, Strategist and Workplace Wellness Coach and creator of the Wellness Improvement System (WIS) programs, consisting of Workplace Wellness Assistance Program (WWAP) and the WIS Wellness assessment Instrument. She is also Director of the only ICF approved training program for Coaches and Wellness Facilitators in Manitoba. Go here to complete a free workplace wellness audit for your workplace today.

June 18, 2014 by Interpersonal Wellness Services Inc

Life Coaching for Workplaces

Wondering if there is a need for life coaching within workplaces? The workplace is where people spend most of their waking hours and it is a place where their interpersonal skills as well as their talents are on display. As a Conflict Analyst and Coach, I have come to realize that many people lack the structures at home to support new behaviour. In conversation with a human resources professional last week, she commented that employees don’t want to deal with disrespect and poor behaviour at work anymore and are complaining more often and filing more grievances. This is why I promote life coaching at work, given the countless opportunities for learning that employees relate to their employability.

Some years ago, I developed a comprehensive holistic coaching program that allows for professional and life coaching to be brought to employees in a package through the WIS Workplace Wellness Coaching. It allows employees to assess how well they are doing in nine life dimensions, providing them and their coach with the information necessary to create a coaching plan for their work and life. Our slogan is work well, live well and play well. Our workplace wellness programs allow us to provide coaching support to the clients in the areas they have assessed to be in need, this allows us to offer a targeted work and life coaching support, so they can work and live well.

Are you looking for support to work and live optimally? Our work with clients is geared to improve all areas of their life to create balance and resilience. The WIS Wellness assessment is a great way to determine your goals in life coaching. Take the free wellness assessment here

To Your Wellness,

Joyce

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Joyce Odidison is a Conflict Analyst, Strategist and Workplace Wellness Coach and creator of the Wellness Improvement System (WIS) program including the Wellness Assessment and the Workplace Wellness Assistance program (WWAP). She is also Director of the only ICF approved training program for WIS Coaches and Wellness Facilitators in Manitoba. Take the wellness assessment today!

June 17, 2014 by Interpersonal Wellness Services Inc

Balance

Are you living a balanced life?

Many of us rush through our days without any focus or direction. We often forget to align our daily actions with our end goals. As a result we find ourselves overwhelmed, fearful, uncertain, angry, frustrated and disillusioned. Balance means having purpose to your life and your daily activities. It means putting first things first and it means starting with picture in mind of what you want to accomplish.

Here are some tips to help you regain balance

Set your intention for your day the night before and decide on the course you must take.
Give yourself the appropriate amount of time to do tasks and remember why you need to take this action.
Plan your meals. You are not a machine and therefore need to eat healthy nutritious meals.
Plan your work day and plan for contingencies.
Plan breaks and begin a habit of taking them.
Set reminders in your phone to keep you focused on what’s important
Begin a daily positive affirmation

Give yourself a break if you are not feeling well or need to just chill but don’t let it go on indefinitely, that’s where things begin to fall apart and balance goes out the window. Even if you are really busy, squeeze the time in for self-care, you won’t regret it.

To Your Wellness

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Joyce Odidison is a Conflict Analyst, Strategist and Workplace Wellness Coach and creator of the Wellness Improvement System (WIS) programs including the Wellness Assessment and the Workplace Wellness Assistance program. She is also Director of the only ICF approved training program for Coaches and Wellness Facilitators in Manitoba. Contact Joyce to arrange a wellness assessment for yourself or your workplace today.