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NLP in Business - Q1 Podcast

Listen to our podcast and find out why so many businesses are turning to Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) to get fast, effective and long-lasting results.

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Executive Coaching – the ins and outs!

Coaching is a growing market. Many enter the market as a life coach, learning basic skills focused on the GROW model. The move from Life Coach to Executive Coach has its attractions since the average fee for an Executive Coach is so much higher. Here are some guidelines for succeeding as an Executive coach and why investing in advanced skills is essential.

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Presenting at this years NLP Conference

David Molden and Pat Hutchinson, Quadrant 1 lead trainers and coaches.

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Practical Leadership - a skills-based approach to managing and leading

If you simply learn a process you know the steps to follow and can tick a box. When you apply skills within the process you develop your capability to achieve more of your desired results. The more clearly you define the context for learning, the more effective your skills acquisition.

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Leadership (Orange Paper)

Why would anyone follow you?

You may be an excellent technical manager, but are you an effective role
model for your teams? How many people take their lead from you?

This Orange Paper discusses the irrelevance of generic leadership models in context with the current uncertain economic climate.

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8 Reasons why learning business NLP, particularly in a recession, is a no-brainer!

Learning NLP business skills now is an absolute no brainer. Here are 8 reasons why –

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Champions

A champion can be anyone. It doesn’t have to be a senior manager or director, and the more champions you have in an organisation, the easier it will be for it to change when required to do so.

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Immunise your business against the perils of negative thinking

The challenge today is not in markets, products or services, but in the minds of your people.

Do you ever wonder how many of your people are developing negative mindsets as a result of irresponsible media reporting? Here’s a thing – I am told that Sarkozy thinks Gordon Brown’s VAT cut is ineffective. He’s entitled to his opinion. Now, let’s not be drawn into whether it is or isn’t ineffective, because there are more powerful forces at work which we need to protect ourselves from. The news announcer added ‘this is a big embarrassment to Gordon Brown’. How does he know? Embarrassment is a feeling, but this announcer is planting the idea that GB is embarrassed – and all the people who believe what they hear will think GB is embarrassed. Headlines and media opinions are nothing but illusions that get into people’s minds and spreads like a virus. We need protection.

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Influence vs Information – The Art of Presenting (Orange Paper)

They say information is power, but today information is at everyone’s
fingertips, and power now comes from the ability to influence and engage.

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Credit-crunch optimism revealed

Are you a free thinker or do you follow the herd?

The media loves a crisis. And because viewer ratings soar during a major catastrophe such as an earthquake, war or credit crunch, the media machine naturally serves its own goal and seeks out the worst it can find. By selecting what to broadcast the media is filtering information to keep as many of us as possible glued to the tellybox. The question is, do you trust it, and are your actions a consequence of the media? Do you follow the herd, or do you filter and think for yourself? Does the wo/man make the journey, or the journey make the wo/man?

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