‘Values’, i.e. what is/are important to us in any specific area of life or situation, is an invaluable tool to improve our results and satisfaction in life. As you’ll see in the next sections, having a knowledge of how to use Values can save you a huge amount of time,...

The Final Piece in the Jigsaw

I have worked in the field of mental and physical health for 30 years with my career spanning fitness programming, nutritional therapy and NLP. In recent years I have specialised in the emotional state of our brains, how this is intricately...

Success Factor Modeling™ (SFM) is a methodology developed by Robert and John Dilts in order to identify and apply the critical success factors that drive and support successful people and organisations.  By examining successful businesses, projects and ventures and obs...

Do you know that the most harmonious and generative families on Earth have 10 habits in common? What if I tell you that these families, in order to get there, just had to answer a single question?! A question whose answer becomes a flashlight to illuminate this wonderf...

When it came for the field of NLP to start modeling in a mindful and conscious way, they took the TOTE model from Miller’s The Plan and Structure of Behavior (1960) and created the NLP Strategy Model. That gave them a way to map the step-by-step process description for...

The recent CIPD Annual Learning and Talent Development survey highlighted coaching as one of the top five talent management activities.  Of the companies that took part in the survey, 51% offered coaching to managers.

When I saw that, I couldn’t help wondering how varie...

One of the most important assumptions of NLP states, “the map is not the territory.” This sentence is part of an original paper by Alford Korzybski who wrote in 1931 and then in 1933, “A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structur...

“The art of negotiation is to get others to do what you want because they want to.”  In order to increase your influence in the workplace you need to identify the motivations and aspirations of others and manage your own emotions and behaviours in a way that gets them...

We all have difficult situations where we need to persuade someone to do something but they just won’t do what we want. Some of these situations are extreme – does anyone here have teenagers?!

Hostage negotiators – world class persuaders

But are your situations as tough...

In this age of rapid technology growth and digital advances, more and more events are becoming available virtually. Whilst this is wonderful and offers a range of great benefits, there continues to be thriving face to face conferences across a range of industries. Why?

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