The Purposeful Life
Living life with purpose? What does this really mean? It can be easy to avoid or ignore the most existential question of all: what is my life about? I can tell you after working with the clients I coach for twenty years now, it is the question that all clients...
The Path to Joyful Work – The Joyful Work Roadmap™
The path to Joyful work is not easy but may be the most important thing you do in your life. When your work is enjoyable and aligns with your deepest core values, all internal indicators increase such as happiness, energy, sense of meaning in one’s life and the...
The Humanistic Leadership Model (HLM)
There are many definitions for different types of leadership, such as, transformational or transactional, autocratic or democratic, task oriented or service oriented leadership. Others defined leadership as situational or just plain management. I have found most of...
Help Wanted: New Experience in Human Resources
The world of work is changing. The one-job, one-company career popular in the Baby Boomer generation is a faded memory. The portfolio life, a work life comprised of many work-related roles, is the new norm. For some, this may be contract work for many different...
The Importance of Focus and Paying Attention in the Age of Distraction
The Challenge Today While technology was meant to enable more leisure time, it in fact has increased our inability to focus and complete our daily tasks. Not wanting to miss the latest twitter post, the Facebook comment, or the latest picture on Instagram we find...
Opinion: Gen Y Demands a Humanistic Approach to Management
[Tweet “It’s time to throw out the rule book when it comes to leading the workforce of the future, says Craig Nathanson”] Generation Y – those born between 1983 and 1995 – is on a mission; a mission to shake up the status quo. Many of today’s younger...
The Best Criteria for Loving your Work
[Tweet “It will increase the quality and happiness in your life”] Indian thinker Krishnamurti (1987) believed that there are many people who want to be famous because they don’t love what they do. He believed that our present success is rotten because it...
How to Manage Your Time Like a Leader
If you are in a management role, each day is a challenge, and it seems like there is never enough time. In fact, we all have the same amount of time each day — 24 hours. The difference is how we use it. To do so effectively, you have to be aware of several factors:...