Wendy Woods
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Emotional Intelligence, Stress, Laughter, Communication Expert
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- Speaker, Business Owner, Coach
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- Watershed Training Solutions
Wendy Woods is Principal of Watershed Training Solutions, a dynamic training company she founded in 2003. Her workshops include stress management, productive teamwork and effective communication as well as many other critical workplace skills. Wendy’s enthusiastic and engaging training style energizes and motivates her participants. Her years of hands-on business and adult education experience, complimented by an M.B.A. and Certificate in Adult Education, provide her clients with productive and profitable results.
Prior to starting Watershed Training Solutions, Wendy spent most of her career in mutual fund marketing working for such outstanding organizations as Dynamic Mutual Funds, Richardson Greenshields and RBC Dominion Securities. In 2000, she helped launch www.advisor.ca, a website for financial advisors, in under 2 months.
Wendy’s expertise has been featured in such media as CTV News, Breakfast Television, Rogers Daytime, Classical 96.3, Entertainment Tonight Canada and Canadian Business Online.
Watershed Training Solution's goal is Making the Workplace Flow for employees, teams and organizations and services include assessments, training, keynote presentations and coaching. Clients who have benefited from Watershed’s expertise include Ernst & Young, Johnson & Johnson and TD Bank Financial Group.
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Top 10 Tips on Networking - A Critical Skill in the Modern Work Environment
Whether you are self-employed or working for a company, networking is one of the critical skills you need in the work environment. Your network can help you quickly respond to work changes (e.g. downsizing, client loss) by putting you in touch with new contacts and opportunities. Here are 10 networking tips to keep in mind. 1. Build relationships, not the record for handing out the most business cardsr
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Reducing Stress One Laugh at a Time
In today's workforce, it doesn't matter whether we're the CEO or a front line customer service representative - we all face stress. We're often expected to work longer hours and do more with fewer resources. All the technology geared to making us more efficient simply means that we're a phone call or email away - goodbye downtime, hello stress. In fact it's one of the top two reasons for employee absenteeism and/or healthcare costs in the workplace (Ipsos Reid 2004).
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Leadership Lessons
Leadership Lessons from BP & Tony Haywardr Many lessons can be learned from the BP crisis as it continues to unfold and do considerable damage to the environment. It is an excellent example of how crises demand extraordinary leadership not required in times of stability. Leaders in crisis must dig deep to guide during uncertainty and in unchartered waters. BP’s attempts to deal with the oil spill highlight some lessons for future leaders in similar situations: Step Up to the Plater
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The Benefits of Meditation & Why You Can't Afford Not to Try This Ancient Practice
In my July blog, I wrote about meditation as a great way of managing stress. This ancient practice has many other health benefits listed below. I hope these benefits help convince you to at least give meditation a try.
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Let The Olympics Bring Out The Best In You
On Dec. 17, 2009, I watched the Olympic torch make its way dow Yonge Street in Toronto. As I cheered and pumped my fists into the air with delight, I was filled with a sense of excitement I hadn’t felt in years - 30 years to be exact. When I was 16, I was bundled off to Lake Placid with my family for the last weekend of the Olympics. I didn’t know much about the games or the athletes except that I was madly in love with one speed skater named Eric Heiden*. I dragged my family all over the Olympic village searching for any sightings of him.
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Power of Humour: Making it work at the office
I have spent a lot of time in hospitals lately as my dad deals with severe radiation burns. Despite the challenges, stress and lack of resources within the healthcare system, I’m amazed at hospital staff who use humour to put patients at ease. Even a few simple words can get a patient to laugh, smile and momentarily forget their troubles. Here are some of my favorite hospital moments:
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Why gratitude makes you a better manager?
Makes you more empathetic. People with a strong disposition toward gratitude have the capacity to be empathic and to take the perspective of others (McCullough, Emmons, & Tsang, 2002). Empathy is one of the skills required for Emotional Intelligence which accounts for 80% of success at work. Leads to greater optimism and positive emotions within your team. Grateful people report higher levels of positive emotions and optimism (Emmons & McCullough, 2003) which is easily transferred to others by mood contagion (Roland Neumann,2000)
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Wendy Woods
“You give, you get. You don’t give, you don’t get” ~ Harvey Mackay
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Laughter is an instant vacation” ~ Milton Berle
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Join us for our upcoming HRPA seminar!
Our ability to influence, motivate and inspire others impacts our capacity to be successful. Learn the tools and techniques to inspire others with ease – June 17th, 2010.
Becoming A Great Manager Symposium
As a leader, your understanding of motivators and emotions is critical. Learn about Emotional Intelligence and how it can aid you in becoming a more successful manager. --June 25th, 2010