Blog tag: nlp

Tuckman’s stages of team development – how to keep innovative organisations performing
The four stages of team development by Bruce Tuckman is a core management model most leaders are familiar with. Teams start by ‘Forming’ and then go through a series of stages that eventually see them arrive at ‘Performing’ – with the advantages of being self-motivated, autonomous and competent. It’s always…

The CEO Dilemma – how can I stop firefighting and focus on what I love?
We work with many CEO’s passionate about what their organisation does, but less so about the time pressures that come with leadership roles. People have a habit of looking to the top for solutions, so it’s no surprise that many CEO’s discover that people and organisational issues are the real…

Why successful people are rarely perfectionists
Do you identify as a perfectionist – or know someone who believes it makes them or their team, more productive? The truth is – it’s often not the success enabler it’s thought to be. In fact it could be causing some pretty serious damage. In this article we take a…

Is 2019 the year to make it happen?
Don’t wait until the new year to make big plans for 2019. Every year millions of us make New Years Resolutions that few people ever achieve. If you want to be different from the crowd, get thinking now about what you want to achieve and make a plan with these…

Four ways that NLP can improve everything from your career to relationships
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a collection of techniques that help people do more of their good ‘programmes’ and change their unhelpful ones. The techniques get your conscious and unconscious mind working together for you, making it much easier to make changes than by will power alone … Here are…

How to achieve optimum flow in your life
It’s tough when you feel pulled in different directions, unable to spend time doing the things you want to. Being more balanced is a very personal thing because we are all different – to some people sitting on a beach is relaxing – to some it is the very definition…

There’s nothing wrong with you – so why do you need personal development?
here was a time when doing any kind of coaching, self-help or personal development was a bit taboo – you had to be a hippie or have serious issues to spend your time and money on such things. Times have changed and now anyone who’s anyone has a coach and…

What to do if Coaching isn’t working
Anyone who’s anyone nowadays has a Coach. Working with a Coach can help you improve your performance, decrease your stress levels, revolutionaries your time management and sort out your work life balance. But what do you do if Coaching isn’t helping?… First of all make sure you have the right…
The dark side of nice and friendly team members
If you work in a warm and friendly team environment, the chances are you have a number of affiliation driven people in your team. Harvard Psychologist David McLelland defined three primary motives that drive people Power, Achievement and Affiliation which are the key to understanding behaviour in the workplace… All…

Make the most of your social life
It is all too easy for our social life and family time to end up as the ‘thing we do when everything else is done’. And yet if people were asked on their death bed, what they wished they’d done more of in their life – very few people would…