Grief is more than bereavement. Studies have shown how the effects of grief greatly impact productivity, engagement, and resilience in the workplace – putting a huge price tag on grief for employers. Throughout this course, participants will examine the many layers and manifestations of grief at work (and in life) and the importance of making space – and working through – grief. They will develop a thorough understanding of what grief really is and learn tools to support employees and colleagues alike, which will help reduce on-the-job errors, attrition, and increase productivity. Participants will explore the needs of their team via exercises created to help identify opportunities for improvement in their workplace and also learn tools to implement right away.

Learning Objectives

1. Recognize and empathize with the layers of grief employees and colleagues experience
2. Build awareness and understanding of the signs and impact of grief in the workplace
3. Learn actionable tools to help support grieving individuals in the workplace

How can you manage through these uncertain times without compromising your health and happiness? Learn the skill of resilience. Resilience is the skill of adapting well in the face of adversity, threats, or significant sources of stress. Although some people tend to be more resilient than others, the skill of resilience can be learned.

This engaging and interactive training is based upon a multi-dimensional approach to resilience in these four areas: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. Throughout the training, you’ll reflect on your strengths, opportunities for enhancing your resilience and walk away with multiple resilience strategies you can use in the real world.
 

Learning Objectives

1. Identify the tipping point from stretch to strain, behaviors when overwhelmed, and a strategy to enhance stress capacity.
2. Define emotions, identify emotional challenges, and walk through a framework for managing emotions.
3. Learn the connection between resilience and purpose.
4. Create an action plan to put into practice.

Tap into your authentic leadership to engage the C-Suite and create meaningful change in your organization. This training will awaken your unique strengths, combine them with skilled leadership techniques to overcome common barriers and amplify your career wellbeing and ultimate success.
 

Learning Objectives

1. Identify your specific leadership strengths.
2. Develop personalized career wellbeing guideposts
3. Assess existing barriers to your strategic success
4. Apply specific skills from the training to your organizational challenges.

As we find ourselves to be facing unprecedented challenges that many have never seen before centering around equality, social unrest, and anti-racism protest, many find it difficult to understand the ‘why’ behind it all. An individual may feel at a loss to understand and how to effectively communicate their thoughts during these times. The introductory workshop “Workplace Diversity” will help participants understand what diversity is all about, and how they can help create a more diverse and inclusive world at work and at home. They will be instructed to use skills such as active listening to receive messages in a diverse population, employ effective questioning techniques, and communicate with strength.
 

Learning Objectives

 Upon completion of this certification program, participants will be able to:

1. Explain the definition, terms, and history of diversity
2. Describe the meaning of stereotypes and biases, how they develop, and the reasons for your own perspectives
3. List strategies for removing barriers to encouraging diversity for yourself, in the workplace, and in the social community
4. Use active listening skills to receive messages in a diverse population, employ effective questioning techniques, and communicate with strength
5. Understand the importance of body language, both your own, and that of others, and recognize its importance in interpersonal communications
6. Identify ways to encourage diversity in the workplace, and prevent and discourage discrimination
7. Understand and respond to personal complaints, and develop a support system to manage the resolution process
8. List the steps a manager should take to record a complaint, analyze the situation, and take appropriate resolution action
9. Identify the process an organization must follow to receive and respond to a complaint, and then creating mechanisms to prevent or reduce repeat situations.

In the United States, worksite wellness programs are offered by most large employers, but America runs on small businesses. What can a small business do to improve employee wellbeing? This certification program presents a variety of strategies and approaches that small businesses can use to deliver quality programs. Join Mari Ryan, CEO and Founder of Advancing Wellness, who will review the barriers that small businesses face when implementing worksite wellness initiatives, opportunities unique to small businesses and how you can use the learnings of a research-backed initiative to implement a wellness strategy in your small business.
 

Learning Objectives

 Upon completion of this certification program, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the challenges and opportunities for worksite well-being programs in small businesses
2. Discuss elements of the WELCOA Seven Benchmarks that can be leveraged and implemented in small businesses
3. Discuss the types of successes small businesses have had in implementing well-being programs

Let’s face it; change is hard. Even with a supportive workplace culture and climate, individuals and organizations do not change easily. This is because, unlike machines, people are complex and are not predictable or controllable. Consequently, the use of incentives doesn’t work for promoting sustainable change. In fact, hundreds and hundreds of research studies conclude that the carrot and stick approach may result in compliance, but it doesn’t equate to commitment and actually erodes engagement and intrinsic motivation. The reality is that there is no shortcut to meaningful change.  Our behaviors are a manifestation of our thinking our mindset and inner narrative. As human beings, our brains are hard-wired to seek out familiarity and comfort. Therefore, effectively leading and supporting change requires equipping people to embrace the discomfort so they can wade in the messy middle of change, be more self-aware and shift their thinking. This means we need to create the conditions to support people in having autonomy, mastery and purpose… and then let them be the authors of their own journey. This course will explore the latest research on change, cognitive development, incentives and what it actually takes to effectively navigate the waters of human behavior change. You will learn why and how to shift from focusing on behaviors and incentives to fostering greater self-awareness, better thinking and meaningful, lasting change.
 

Learning Objectives

1. Distinguish the critical differences between technical and adaptive challenges
2. Describe key characteristics of adaptive challenges and considerations for effectively supporting people’s ability to navigate adaptive change
3. Define the Evolution of Motivation
4. Identify the pitfalls of Motivation 2.0 and why moving beyond incentives is essential for thriving wellbeing
5. Identify the stages of adult development and mental complexity and the importance of upgrading our ability to handle greater complexity
6. Describe how our mindset influences our ability to adapt to change and the importance of moving to Motivation 4.0
7. Identify ways to correct for incentives and support better thinking

Are leaders born or made? They are made by choice and by circumstances. They can also be deliberately cultivated and educated. WELCOA’s Benchmark 1, Committed and Aligned Leadership, helps wellness professionals understand how to win leadership buy-in for wellness at all levels of the organization and how to become a leader for wellness themselves. Through this exciting certification opportunity, you’ll learn tactical practices to be a more Conscious Leader from an executive coach who has helped thousands of leaders manifest their organization’s mission and bring out the best in themselves and their people. Eric will present a seven part course on Leadership as a Hero’s Journey. This practical and empowering series offers insights, frameworks, and tools to up-level your leadership mindset.
 

Learning Objectives

1. Learn to distinguish leadership and management and identify the key drivers of leadership excellence.
2. Understand the healthy place of ego in leadership.
3. Examine the role of fear and the path of courage.
4. Learn what perseverance is and isn’t and how to reliably turn it on through self discipline, allies and collaboration.

This three hour certification course covers wellness incentive laws such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), as well as the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTCA), workers compensation laws and state licensure laws. This course will examine how each of these laws impacts workplace wellness compliance risk, and how complying with these laws can help improve the quality of a workplace wellness program. Attendees who complete the course should feel more confident in identifying red flags in workplace wellness compliance.
 

Learning Objectives

1. Attendees will learn the laws related to financial incentives and how to apply them into the design and delivery of workplace wellness programs.
2. Attendees will learn whether workplace wellness activity participation is compensable under the FLSA and whether injuries sustained in workplace wellness activities are covered under workers’ compensation.
3. Attendees will understand the data privacy laws that apply to workplace wellness programs.
4. Attendees will identify factors that need to be considered when hiring wellness employees, independent contractors and vendors.

Master the skills needed to design and deliver successful employee wellness initiatives. You will be introduced to WELCOA’s 7 Benchmarks, our foundation for building and sustaining worksite wellness programs. Throughout this certification, you will gain a deeper understanding of how to successfully start and grow your wellness initiatives, increase employee engagement and effectively communicate your wellness value story.
 

Learning Objectives

1. Understanding of the worksite wellness role within a business or organization
2. Discover how to align your wellness initiatives with organization leadership
3. Receive an overview of WELCOA’s NEW Checklist, an interactive worksite wellness assessment
4. Become familiar with the 7 Benchmarks framework and learn how to customize the approach to get your desired outcomes