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New Year’s Resolutions – Well-formed Outcomes continued

by Damian Hamill 12:21 - 31st December 2010
Moving on from my last blog about using the NLP Well-formed Outcomes principles for setting New Year’s Resolutions, let’s look at the final concepts to really structure enduring and sustainable change. We have already noted that Resolutions should be: 1. Stated in the Positive 2. Described in Sensory-based Language 3. Self-initiated and Self-maintained

Management Development Continues Throughout Your Career

by ClickConsult 16:52 - 30th December 2010
Management development continues throughout your career. You might feel a little like you've seen it all before and you know everything there is to know, but believe me this never is the case. Especially given the more turbulent trading conditions every organisation is facing over the next few years....

Setting New Year’s Resolutions using NLP – the structure of Well Formed Outcomes

by Damian Hamill 13:26 - 28th December 2010
At this time of year many will be looking forward to 2011 with the hope for positive change and greater success than before. The conventional way to do this is through making New Year’s Resolutions. Most of us will have made such Resolutions in the past with perhaps...

Business coaching for a harsh economic climate

by ClickConsult 12:13 - 24th December 2010
Everyone knows that we’re going through some rough economic times at the moment. There’s no need to quote facts and figures, they are on the TV news every night and all over the papers each morning. Nobody can argue that the current slump does not mean hard times both for...

From Therapy to the Business World – Erickson’s Utilisation for Building Productive Relationships

by Damian Hamill 17:31 - 20th December 2010
We recently wrote about the debt that is owed to the famous American psychiatrist and hypno-psychotherapist, Milton H Erickson. Erickson’s work was hugely influential far beyond the confines of the work he did with individual therapy clients and family groups and it has many applications in the business world. ...

Workplace stress management training

by ClickConsult
The office can be an extremely stressful place, and as a general rule of thumb the more responsibility you have, the greater the stress you will be under. There are a lot of other factors that can cause stress in the workplace: personal conflicts, mistakes, software and equipment problems, looming...

Resolving conflict in the workplace

by ClickConsult 12:02 - 16th December 2010
The modern office is a high pressure environment and it’s almost inevitable that conflicts will arise from time to time. Those conflicts may be personal and based on a simple state of mutual dislike between two or more individuals or it can be more complex. Competition for resources or rewards...

Different Ways to Build Rapport – Identity, Beliefs & Values

by Damian Hamill 20:14 - 15th December 2010
Over the last couple of weeks I have been talking about the importance of building rapport with others in order to facilitate communication and co-operation.  Whilst rapport (and the signs of good rapport) is as old as humankind, the concept is one that is given quite a bit of attention...

Identify the weaknesses in your management team

by ClickConsult 11:33 - 12th December 2010
The people leading your company should be the most skilled and the most trusted. They have a great deal of responsibility resting on their shoulders and it’s of utmost importance that each and every one of your executives has the right skills and the will to apply them. It’s not...

Business Consultants Can Help Your Operation Move to the Next Level

by ClickConsult 09:48 - 11th December 2010
So you've started up in business. Congratulations! It's a bold step. So things are ticking over, but you have a feeling they could be better. Maybe it's time to get some advice from the outside. From people who have helped many businesses grow and expand. No matter what your situation,...

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Hello and welcome to “The Lightbulb”.

The Lightbulb is a blog that brings you the best in systems thinking, neuro linguistic programming and sports psychology and how the ideas and concepts from these areas can enhance performance for both individuals and organisations.

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