I saw a story on the news last year that brought home one of coaching’s major contributions to thinking and taking action. A teen from Chicago had seen the dramatic pictures and read about the historic devastation the tornado left in Joplin, Missouri. He prevailed on his mother to join him in going there to […]
I recently attended an evening discussion with Martin Seligman, the author and psychology professor regarded as the founder and sage of positive psychology. His new book, Flourish, focuses on achieving a life of “well-being.” Seligman suggests we move beyond the search for happiness as the path to “lasting fulfillment”—something he advocated in his earlier book, […]
This Labor Day, I read a New York Times Op Ed titled “Do Happier People Work Harder?” (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/opinion/sunday/do-happier-people-work-harder.html). The Op Ed was saddening but at the same time affirming—saddening because it painted an American workforce as largely disengaged and unhappy at work. The article mentioned Gallup as estimating the cost of America’s disengagement crisis at […]
Too often an organization’s financial bottom line becomes the only metric that matters, and there is no recognition of people as its true assets. I’ve recently heard from more than one colleague about work situations where talented people are undervalued, unacknowledged, even verbally abused by a senior manager. Apparently, this kind of negative behavior goes […]
Gina Abudi’s bulleted advice for managing stress maps to many of the focus areas coaches help clients work through. Managers who use a coaching orientation in the way they listen and question their people can help individuals identify the sources of their stress and find proactive steps similar to those outlined here to alleviate work-life […]
