Success Strategies for Wellness Practitioners

Vocabulary flashcards covering key concepts from the lecture on professional development, marketing, tracking, risk-taking, and motivation for wellness practitioners.

Professional Development

The ongoing process of enhancing interpersonal, technical, product, and business skills to advance a career.

Continuing Education

Additional learning—such as courses, seminars, and books—undertaken after initial training to foster career growth.

Client Feedback

Assessments from clients that reveal strengths and areas for improvement in a practitioner’s service.

Peer Evaluation

Periodic assessment by colleagues that provides objective technical feedback and supports professional growth.

Idea Development

The creative process of generating and refining new opportunities, procedures, and services for a business.

Diversification

Expanding a practice by adding employees, selling products, subcontracting work, or offering group services to increase income and efficiency.

Marketing

The continuous activity of promoting and building a practice to attract and retain clients; recommended minimum is 15% of work time.

High Priority Activities

The critical 20% of tasks that generate 80% of desired results, identified and focused on to boost productivity.

80/20 Rule (Pareto Principle)

Concept that a small proportion of inputs or activities produce the majority of outcomes.

Tracking

Systematic documentation of key data to identify trends, anticipate problems, and guide business decisions.

Key Business Indicators

Quantifiable measures—such as client numbers, income, or marketing responses—monitored to gauge business health.

Tracking Sheet/Graph

A visual or written tool used to record and analyze business data over time.

Consumer Trends

Shifts in customer behaviors and preferences that reveal new market opportunities.

Industry Trends

Changes in legislation, education standards, and professional practices that affect a field.

Trendwatching.com Newsletter

A free resource for monitoring global consumer trends helpful to practitioners.

Ubercool

A website that tracks worldwide trends, including markets driven by baby boomers.

Risk-Taking

The willingness to pursue action with uncertain outcomes to achieve growth; essential in business.

Smart Risk

A calculated, well-researched risk aligned with goals and evaluated for potential gains and losses.

Self-Esteem

An individual’s sense of worth that influences comfort in taking risks and facing new situations.

Calculated Risk-Taker

A person who evaluates facts, trusts intuition, and follows through while avoiding unnecessary dangers.

Fear Motivation

A motivation style that drives behavior through threat of negative consequences; least effective long term.

Incentive Motivation

A method that offers external rewards to encourage behavior but often loses power as rewards must escalate.

Self-Motivation

Inner drive to act based on the joy of accomplishment and personal goals rather than external pressures.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Humanistic model outlining progressive levels of motivation, from physiological needs to transcendence.

Physiological Needs

Basic survival requirements such as food, water, and sex; foundation of Maslow's hierarchy.

Safety Needs

Desire for security, shelter, and stability.

Social Needs

Need for belongingness and love.

Esteem Needs

Desire for self-respect, competence, approval, and recognition.

Cognitive Needs

Motivation for knowledge, understanding, and exploration.

Aesthetic Needs

Appreciation for symmetry, order, and beauty.

Self-Actualization

Realizing personal potential and achieving self-fulfillment.

Transcendence

Connecting beyond the self and helping others reach self-actualization.

Stretch Break

A short pause every 20 minutes to stretch, breathe deeply, rest eyes, and revitalize.

Support System

A network of people and resources that provide assistance in business and personal life.

Time Management Log

A detailed record of daily activities used to reveal where time is well spent or wasted.

Delegation

Assigning tasks to others or subcontracting work to focus on higher priorities and tasks you enjoy.

Positive Self-Talk

Mental technique of reinforcing confidence and potential to enhance risk-taking and motivation.

Motivation Saboteurs

Behaviors such as lacking written goals, setting unrealistic goals, or negative self-talk that undermine drive.

Body Mechanics

Proper physical techniques used to protect one’s body during work, such as using a hydraulic table.

Business Coach

A professional advisor who assists in strategy, accountability, and skill development for a practice.