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How to envision and live your perfect vocational day! (Download PDF Brochure)

Leading yourself and others (Download PDF Brochure)

The Ten P™ Planning System: Getting more out of your time and your life (Download PDF Brochure)

How to discover and do what you love 365 days a year (Download PDF Brochure)

Now that I'm in college, what will I do with my life? (Download PDF Brochure)

How to be more creative in work and in life (Download PDF Brochure)

How to defeat stress in life and at work (Download PDF Brochure)

How to motivate yourself and others (Download PDF Brochure)

How to plan for organizational and individual success (Download PDF Brochure)

Coaching for Great Results (Download PDF Brochure)

Communication Skills (Download PDF Brochure)

How to motivate your work force (Download PDF Brochure)

How to find the RIGHT work during challenging times (Download PDF Brochure)

Topic : How to envision and live your perfect vocational day!

''The WORKSHOP to integrate your life and your work around what you love to do!

You will learn:

How to define your own perfect vocational day
How to define and move towards work you feel passionate about
How to create more meaning and fulfillment in your life’s work
How to align your interests and your abilities
How to make your passions your work
How to close the gap between your dreams and your current reality
How to design the perfect vocational day which works just right for you!
How to deal with the most common challenges (money, relationships, emotional)
How to change your belief system so you can move towards what you want
How to find vocation so you never have to stop doing what you love
How to earn the income your desire through your life’s work

Craig’s newest workshop will help you focus your attention around what would be just perfect for you with regards to your work. The people who retire are people who don’t love what they do. Don’t be one of them because life tends to get in the way while we plan for someday.

For more information, please contact Craig at craig@thevocationalcoach.com or call 707-775-4020

Topic : Leading yourself and others

''The WORKSHOP to develop and improve your leadership skills NOW"

You will learn:

How to improve your planning and organizational skills
How to improve organizational design and job design
How to influence motivation at work
How to improve individual and team decision making skills
How to improve your communication skills with those you work with
How to develop a great working team while learning how to resolve interpersonal conflict
How to run effective meetings and role model time management and discipline at work
How to assess and improve management skills
How to create work which people want to do
How to Live your passion in your work
How to role model organizational ethics, values and behaviors

Now for the first time, Craig Nathanson,shares his wisdom and lessons learned from managing in corporate America for 25 years, six years of teaching at the university level including the past two summer’s in Moscow at the Institute of Business and Economics and the last 5 years in private practice. Additional Craig has spend the past 13 years of doctoral research in human development focused on creating more meaning at work

Now available in full day, 2 half day sessions or a special week session. Custom sessions available.

For more information, please contact Craig at craig@thevocationalcoach.com or call 707-775-4020

Topic: The Ten P™ Planning System: Getting more out of your time and your life

The keys to time management the Ten P way are:

The big picture: What are you trying accomplish?
The process: How will you align your big-picture goals with your monthly, weekly, and daily to-do lists?
The system: What overall system drives your time management behavior?

Hint: When you have a good sense of your values and goals, and you are self-aware, you accomplish more.

The biggest mistakes people make with their time are:

Doing what we like and what we are good at instead of what is most important
Doing more unplanned activities than planned activities
Waiting until deadlines to get things done, thereby raising our stress levels
Working on the squeaky wheel principle
Separating personal and work time management activities

This workshop will cover:

How to step back and become more self-aware
How to put a personal planning system in place
How to implement planning tools and methods that work
How to avoid the top10 mistakes that we make with our time
How to implement productive time management strategies that are meaningful and useful
How to eliminate tasks that don’t add value
How to select the right software and/or materials for effective time management
How to implement new strategies for effective leadership — and save time\

Bonus: This workshop will show you how to reclaim 2 hours a day of productive time. That’s 40 hours each month!!

For more information, please contact Craig at craig@thevocationalcoach.com or call 707-775-4020

Topic: Now that I'm in college, what will I do with my life?

Vocational passion awaits all of us, and the sooner we learn how to do more of what we love, the sooner we will find new happiness and meaning in our lives.

This program has been designed especially for college students, parents, and those just getting ready to enter college. This program will teach you strategies for discovering and living a passionate life doing the work you love .

Craig Nathanson will share life lessons all students should know by the time they graduate from college.

For more information, please contact Craig at craig@thevocationalcoach.com or call 707-775-4020

Topic: How to be more creative in work and in life

You will learn:

How to be more creative in just seconds
How to increase your creativity to solve your biggest challenges
How to make better decisions
How to view challenges from different perspectives
How to be a creativity role model
How to ask better questions
How to listen to your intuition
How to develop your creative side
The problem with rational thinking
How to create more possibilities every time when solving problems
How to use new thinking approaches to solve your biggest problems
How to use play and games as creative tools

Interactive, thought-provoking, and you can apply what you learn right away!

For more information, please contact Craig at craig@thevocationalcoach.com or call 707-775-4020

Topic : How to defeat stress in life and at work

You will learn:

What causes stress
How to defeat the stress when it comes
The typical reactions to stress
The relationship between the mind and body under stress
Why stress makes us adopt a crisis mentality
The three most important strategies for defeating stress
How to develop resiliency that will help you defeat stress
How aligning your plans and priorities help defeat stress
When stress can be good
How humor can defeat stress

Interactive, thought-provoking, and you can apply what you learn right away!

For more information, please contact Craig at craig@thevocationalcoach.com or call 707-775-4020

Topic: How to motivate yourself and others

You will learn:

How to match high challenges and high skills in your work
How to align your work with your personal values
How to understand what motivates others
Learn the value of internal motivation
How to become internally motivated
Why gimmicks as rewards don’t last long
Why most motivational programs are backwards and don’t work
Why rewards and punishments are not good long-term motivators
How to design and implement alternatives to rewards and punishments
How to establish a system to teach others to motivate themselves
How to create meaning and fulfillment at work

Interactive, thought-provoking, and you can apply what you learn right away!

For more information, please contact Craig at craig@thevocationalcoach.com or call 707-775-4020

Topic: How to plan for organizational and individual success

You will learn:

What planning is
Why you should plan
How to create plans that stand the test of time
Why most planning fails
The elements of a good plan
How to design and implement a planning system
How to create and communicate the vision of the plan
How to measure and communicate progress toward the goals
How to add the right resources to any plan
How to align personal and organizational planning

Interactive, thought-provoking, and you can apply what you learn right away!

For more information, please contact Craig at craig@thevocationalcoach.com or call 707-775-4020

Topic: Coaching for Great Results

You will learn:

How to improve both organizational and individual results through coaching as a system
How to know the difference between coaching, and JUST managing
How to balance the employee agenda and the leadership agenda
How to understand the dynamics of interpersonal relationships at work
How to understand the managersubordinate relationships that impact coaching
How to coach to achieve organizational goals
How to develop coaching skills that make an impact
Enhance your skills for coaching success
How to model great coaching
How to make coaching a daily habit
How to measure if coaching is working

Interactive, thought-provoking, and you can apply what you learn right away!

For more information, please contact Craig at craig@thevocationalcoach.com or call 707-775-4020

Topic: Communication Skills

You will learn:

Why communication skills are the most essential skills for every manager
How you can get better results with quality communications
How to examine the quality of communications in your organization
Why teams fail when communications is poor, and what to do about it
How to see the link between poor communications and poor interpersonal relationships
How to improve the traditional model of communications at work
How to recognize the difference between “low richness” and “high richness” in your communications
How to give and receive feedback that enhances interpersonal relationships at work
How to know when to use coaching communication rather than punitive communication
How to recognize your preferred communication style and adjust it as needed for every occasion
How to turn great listening into great coaching
How to build strong teams through improved communications
How to measure if communications is working in the organization

Interactive, thought-provoking, and you can apply what you learn right away!

For more information, please contact Craig at craig@thevocationalcoach.com or call 707-775-4020

Topic: How to motivate your work force

You will learn:

What motivation is
Various philosophies and theories of motivation
What motivates humans at various ages and stages
Common approaches to worker motivation
How NOT to motivate workers
Why rewards don’t work
Top challenges in today’s job market
Why matching skill level and challenge level is so important
The top 5 ways to improve worker motivation

Food for thought, and tips you can use right away to help motivate your work force!

For more information, please contact Craig at craig@thevocationalcoach.com or call 707-775-4020

Topic: How to find the RIGHT work during challenging times

For Whom:

College students preparing to enter the world of work
Individuals in work transition
Individuals in midlife, who are ready to discover what work is just RIGHT for them

You will learn:

How to find the work which is just RIGHT for you
How to create a more fulfilling future
How self-reflection can bring new energy and perspective to your life
How to create a personal roadmap for success in your work and your life
How to develop a purpose that makes a difference in your life
How to align new goals around what is most important to you
How to raise your self-esteem and create a new set of beliefs that are more useful to you
How to create your own perfect vocational day
How to deal with the emotional, financial, and relationship challenges, which can come with changing your work
How to build the right support network when you are making transition in your work

For more information, please contact Craig at craig@thevocationalcoach.com or call 707-775-4020

Craig also give talks on "HOW TO DISCOVER AND LIVE YOUR PASSION 365 DAYS A YEAR" AS A HALF-DAY OR FULL DAY OR WEEKEND RETREAT. HE IS ALSO OFFERING A KEYNOTE TALK ON HOW TO DISCOVER AND LIVE YOUR PASSION NOW.

What Craig's corporate clients have said about this workshop
Craig,The workshop that you gave to General Motors Baltimore Women in Manufacturing Organization was well received by the attendees. In speaking with each of the women after the event, it was apparent that everyone brought something very personal away from the workshop that they hadn't considered previously. It was important for our group to actually take some time to reflect on what our vision of our perfect vocational day could be. Thank you for your time and insight!
Kate Williams
Chair-TMIE
General Motors-Powertrain- Baltimore Operations

How to discover and live your passion 365 days a year
This workshop will enable you to discover your vocational passion and more importantly provide a roadmap to enable you to live your perfect vocational day. This workshop is designed to be very interactive allowing for creative exercises to examine one's values and personal operational roadmap. As a result of this workshop you will be able to go into your future, design it and come back and live it now as you close the gap between what you want and where you are today. This workshop is perfect for both those in mid-life transition , those approaching mid-life, professionals in the helping fields, teachers as well as students just starting their college careers and looking for more direction in their lives.

Special rates for organizations and schools. Inquire for more detail content and info.

Craig Discusses why he developed his new workshop, ‘’How to discover and live your passion 365 days a year’’ and what research elements were designed into the workshop

Much of the workshop and the design around the Ten P’s (Purpose, Prize, Perspective, Possibilities, Place, Position, Passion, Perfect vocational day, Present and Putting it all together) is meant to help replace hopelessness with hope for those in mid-life.

I designed the workshop and it’s exercises to help people motivate themselves towards more pleasure then pain Many people come into the workshop wanting to find a better vocational life for themselves but continue to live lives which are painful for them. My objective was to create exercises and ideas to help break this pattern.

Many of my workshop attendees come into the session assuming that their ideas are crazy and not possible. After the workshop, many leave feeling different like perhaps the new options they were willing to consider weren’t so neurotic after all.

Many of the attendees come to my workshops with a low self concept. The workshop is designed to help them recover their sense of self which helps their internal motivation. This is important as in mid-life it becomes easier to become set in our ways and establish patterns which prevent us from changing.

The advantage is in mid-life, people tend to respond to internal stimuli more then external stimuli and the workshop is designed to draw this out in people

In many ways, the workshop captures ideas and concepts that have been discussed for the last 2000 years. Aristotle in 384 BC believed we were meant to lead pleasant, self-sufficient lives aligned with one’s interests and purpose. As a result I designed a visualization exercise in the opening segments of the workshop to capture this. Later workshop attendees have the opportunity to write down their abilities and their interests and see which one’s are in alignment. I discovered as a result this helps people start to consider how they can start to lead their lives more in accordance with their true self.

P for prize was designed to help people focus on what’s most important in their lives. I have attendees focus on writing down and becoming aware of how they know if they are following what’s most important to them and how they know if they are not.

This often starts the process for many people to re-examine their values (what they prize) and the goals to achieve these aims.

Many of my attendees come to the workshop ready to consider the possibility that at mid-life, it has become more important for them to understand who they are vs. what they do. I designed in exercises meant to have them understand their perspective of themselves and how they might change a unhealthy perspective if this was impacting their growth and development at this stage.

I designed a section on letting people examine their possibilities for their lives. At mid-life, it can be helpful to re-examine what’s possible rather then impossible. As result, many attendees start to realize that their current lives do not match their new expectations. This can lead to a feeling of crisis and turmoil . I help address this in the workshop design giving people an opportunity to give themselves permission to follow their passions and define what their perfect vocational day would be like. I notice as a result, people start to feel like they need less permission from others to follow their hearts.

I designed a section on what to do in the present to help address the various emotions which come up for people when contemplating change at mid-life.

Emotions tend to be at an all time high during this period based on how people appraise their thoughts . In the design, I give people an opportunity to consider their emotions as well as those around them. I have them explore how life will be different once they start to live their vocational passions. Additionally, I have them define if there are any underlining goals which are the real reasons for reaching their perfect vocational days.

The workshop is designed on the belief that people can make positive change in their lives and the workshop content helps to facilitate this change.

I have learned throughout my research that people tend to become more motivated as they see themselves closer to their goals and I have designed the workshop to help people accomplish this.

Finally, I believe in the magic of story-telling and many of the exercises have been deigned to facilitate story telling and the discussion of their dreams.

In summary, ‘’How to discover and live your passion 365 days a year’’ draws upon the last 27 years of my working life integrated with my 11 years doctoral research and my own transitions.

Please join us soon so I can cheer you on from the sidelines!

Regards Craig

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