Keep your best managers working in the organisation

Sometimes firms are concerned that managers who attend development programmes will have less time for their jobs. Some worry that managers will ‘learn-and-leave’. This should not be a major concern, generally. The PROJECT is demanding of participants’ time. In fact, we believe that The PROJECT is one of the most demanding and rigorous of self-development…

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NLP Gems – [8] The maps in our head and territory

Everything we see, hear, feel, smell and taste are our “mental” interpretations of reality – they are not reality in itself. We make sense of the world, by re-presenting the information we take in (experience) through our sense of see, hear, feel, smell and taste. We then store (remember) an internal representation of the information,…

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Confusion to Understanding

Blame seeking is a type of dis-ease born out of fear and confusion.The real issue is that often, what we are presented with as news is not all facts it is just a simple (sic) snippet of data – the problem lies in how that news affects our lives, and when we don’t have all the facts our brains react to the confusion and we become fearful and confused – then our societal programming seeks closure…. Focus your intention and ensure that every person who crosses your path leaves your presence feeling better, cared for and loved simply by being around you.People often ask me how they can make a difference in the complex world we live in. Here is a low cost way for you to change you world:- Observe and undertake to understand, suspend judgement and the world will suddenly become a better place for you – oh and add some love, you get way better results.

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NLP Gems – [7] Respect each person’s model of the world

As you now know, we all experience reality as our own creation, and we can safely presume that every other person we come into contact with is experiencing the same thing their way.  The big difference is that having read the previous posts, you know that we all are referencing and working through a map.  The…

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NLP Gems – [6] You cannot not communicate

Human beings are constantly communicating. We are all tied into one another at some  social context. We are all tuned in to each other in one way or another. We are forever interpreting our experience of what’s there, whether it is through a look, or a word or two or our behaviour. We also interpret what…

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NLP Gems – [5] Behind every behaviour there is a positive intention.

This core presupposition of NLP seems to provoke many a strong reaction in people on their first introduction to presuppositions of NLP. Of all the NLP presuppositions, this one is perhaps the most frequently misunderstood and many people object to this statement. As used in NLP, “Behind every behaviour there is a positive intention” is…

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NLP Gems – [4] People already have all the resources they need in order to effect a change and succeed

Most of us have the same nervous system and set of senses to interpret and respond to what is going around us. All that we experience has a structure, and that structure is derived from our  senses: seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, and tasting (visual, auditory, kinaesthetic, olfactory or gustatory). Therefore if every experience is composed…

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