Books

Attaining Your Personal Best

Attaining Your Personal Best

Beginning anew is often difficult because we tend to bring the past forward with us. In revisiting the past, we may seek to prove to ourselves that it was not as bad as it really was, or we may seek to forecast the future. Much of the time, however, dredging up the past is a futile effort. A new beginning needs to be just that—something that is new (novel, original, fresh, innovative) and that is a beginning (start, launch, creation, commencement). In this definition of a new beginning, there is no room for the past.

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Navigator of Life

The Navigator of Life

Keeping Your Ship of Life in Balance and On Course

The Navigator of Life is a tool to assist individuals in making balanced decisions by encouraging the consideration of the areas of family/friends, health, environment, personal development, recreation, financial, education, and spirituality in all decisions.

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The Mature64

The Mature 64 Living Life 8 by 8

The Mature 64 conceptualizes the eight roles that should be present in our lives – maturity, universal love, fellowship, reflection, promptness, pristineness, following particular methods, and accountability/responsibility. These roles must be present during the interaction with the eight domains of life – health/fitness, family/friends, environment, financial, education, spirituality, personal development, and recreation. We reach maturity by managing the eight roles in congruency with the eight domains of our lives. The ultimate goal is to state “I AM MATURE” or “WE ARE MATURE”.

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Orientation and On Boarding

Orientation/Onboarding of Human Services Direct Services Personnel and Its Effect On Retention

Dr. Williams’ MBA Thesis

The purpose of this study is to determine what effective means of orientation are and on boarding of front line human services professionals to organizations and their roles and its potential impact on retention. The desired orientation and on boarding mechanisms that were required; optional mechanism; and the effect solely optional orientation and on boarding mechanisms would have on employee retention. This was done qualitatively, and the results indicate that money and benefits were extremely important and that optional mechanisms increased employee retention rates.

Universal 4Ms of Safety, Service, and Success

Universal 4Ms of Safety, Service, and Success

Mapping, Mental Health/Wellness, Mediation, and Mentoring

The four universal elements of safety, mediation, mental health/wellness, mentorship, and mapping strategies need to be present in a person, community, and organization to ensure the person’s safety, the community, and everything in it. Mental health and wellness require the resources necessary for assessing the comfortability, coping, and functioning of individuals. They also emphasize the need for individuals in society to get some real-time help when needed. Mentorship refers to the provision of an individual to help another strategize their steps towards success. Mediation emphasizes the need for intervention and alternatives in managing simple and complex situations. Mapping of life is the process of planning and keeping records of where they want to reach in the future. All four elements are simultaneously necessary for the safety of the person, community, and organization in improving the quality of life.

Embracing Your Real Life

Embracing Your Real Life: The Prosperous 10

Embracing Your Real Life: The Prosperous 10 provides a description of the ten sensitivities a person must possess in order to embrace the life they desire and warrant. This book highlights the concepts of change required to reach a person’s fullest potential while recognizing this quests is a journey not a destination.

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The Affordability Factor

The Affordability Factor

The 4Cs of Change

The Affordability Factor: The 4Cs of Change is a concept developed by and transformed into a life-management tool by Dr. Nathaniel J. Williams to serve as a liberating framework for self-discovery and a guide to achieving our fullest human potential. This framework emphasizes that we must first recognize and then release ourselves from the traumatic, personal, and damaging effects of challenging life events. Such challenging life events come in many forms, yet they all share two characteristics: they are profound and life altering. Underlying the development of the concept and tool is that most of us are trapped in a vicious cycle because we lack the understanding required to reframe and direct the challenging life event to its rightful place in our life. From this rightful place, we can launch forward, stronger and wiser to ourselves and others. If we do not reframe these challenging life events, we inadvertently decrease our prospects for the future.

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Teaching about Frederick Douglass

Teaching about Frederick Douglass: A Resource Guide for Teachers of Cultural Diversity

Dr. Williams co-authored a chapter entitled “Words of Wisdom for All Centuries” in the book.

The Absolutes of Success

The Absolutes of Success

Worksheets and Illustrations

The workbook contains all of the worksheets and illustrations from The Absolutes of Success Series books: The Navigator of Life, The Mature64, Management and Leadership by the 3Ps, The Affordability Factor, and Embracing Your Real Life.

Available in paperback.

We are reminded that each step of our journey is possible because of our past and we have the ability to influence the future.
The Affordability Factor

Management and Leadership by the 3Ps

Management and Leadership by the 3Ps

Utilizing Prompt, Pristine and Particular Methods

Management and Leadership by the 3P’s provides an instrument using prompt, pristine, and particular methods through which managers can explore the various elements of a given organizational culture. Dr. Williams explores our F.E.A.R.S (False Evidence Appearing Real) vs. D.R.E.A.M.S. (Desire to Reach Each Achievable Measure of Success). The people, places, and possessions of an organization determine the long-term success of that organization. The “3Ps” is designed to aid in conflict avoidance and resolution and fundamentally allow managers and leaders to identify their own responsibility in achieving these goals.

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Professional Development of Child Care Workers

Professional Development of Child Care Workers

Exploring the Professional Development Experiences of Residential Childcare Workers as they Relate to Effectiveness and Retention

Dr. Williams speaks of the difficulties of retaining workers in the child welfare industry. Workers perceive the industry as temporary and tend to leave when better employment opportunities are available. This creates an industry in which there is constant turnover and a reduced sense of permanency among workers, children and their families. In this qualitative assessment of residential childcare workers in the state of Pennsylvania, workers provided personal perceptions regarding their professional development. Interviews and focus groups with 20 participants focused on strategies to develop a professional development model that could affect the retention of residential childcare workers.