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Become un-fixed for creativity!

by Damian Hamill 10:52 - 14th May 2012
What can a candle, a box of drawing pins and a box of matches tell us about creativity? This was the question posed and answered by psychologist, Karl Duncker in the 1940s. Before we go further please have a look at the photograph below showing the afore-mentioned three things.

The power of truly congruent presentations!

by Damian Hamill 09:16 - 8th May 2012
I have recently worked with a couple of coaching clients who have shared the same presenting issue. The problem in question is presentation anxiety and a common aspect of the underlying structure is that nervousness has to be concealed. I want to talk about this interesting assumption a...

RISE to the challenge of whistle-blowing!

by Damian Hamill 00:00 - 30th April 2012
I recently read an article which reported a call by Professor David Lewis of Middlesex University, one of the UK’s leading employment law experts, for companies to actively reward and protect whistle-blowers within their organisation. Read on to find out how we at Watt Works can contribute to this...

Before there was Harry Potter – wizards, coaching and facing our fears!

by Damian Hamill 10:30 - 15th February 2012
Years ago I read a book by one of the major developers of Solution-focused Therapy, Bill O’Hanlon. Bill referred to a fantasy novel, The Wizard of Earthsea, as a wonderful metaphor for personal change, growth, healing and relating to aspects of ourselves. I have recommended the book to...

Powerful Presenting for Career Success

by Damian Hamill 10:30 - 9th February 2012
One of the factors that typified the late Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, was his laid back presentation style. He would stand up in front of the world and introduce a revolutionary product as if he was showing it to a group of intimate friends and associates.  Yet there are other...

Sleep as a Creativity Skill? Sleep on it.

by Damian Hamill 11:45 - 6th January 2012
Someone is stuck on a problem. They’ve thought about it endlessly to no avail. Someone suggests that they “sleep on it” and, lo-and-behold, the following morning the solution is staring them in the face. We’ve probably all had experiences like this and wondered if the emergence of a...

Sport Psychology – hit your targets by staying in the ‘Now’!

by Paul Russell 10:30 - 3rd January 2012
I was watching the semi-finals of the Darts PDC World Championships last night and witnessed one of the greatest sporting comebacks of all time. In this ‘First to 6 Sets is the Winner’ match, James Wade was 5 - 1 up against reigning champion, Adrian Lewis. Lewis was written off...

A Three Step Process for New Year Resolutions

by Damian Hamill 12:35 - 30th December 2011
So, the New Year is almost upon us and many of you may be thinking of the changes you want to see happen in 2012 and framing those as New Year’s Resolutions. Let me give you a few pointers and I’ll be brief.

Moonpig, silver linings and creating opportunity from adversity!

by Damian Hamill 10:30 - 27th December 2011
Over the Festive Season some of you may have used the services of the personalised greeting card company, Moonpig. Let me do a little bit of name-dropping here and also show you how to extract opportunity from adversity.

Waiting for the Miracle

by Damian Hamill 10:30 - 19th December 2011
“There were lots of invitations; I know you sent me some. But I’ve been waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come.” These words from Leonard Cohen’s magnificent song, The Miracle, sum up for me one of the most alarming aspects of the personal development movement of the last...

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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.

I’ll be bringing you ideas and concepts from a variety of disciplines … and including ideas from people such as Stafford Beer, Peter Senge, Humberto Maturana, Ross Ashby, Gregory Bateson, Norbert Wiener, Gordon Pask, Warren McCulloch, Buckminster Fuller, Heinz von Foerster, Milton  Erickson, Alfred Korzybski, Virginia Satir, Peter Drucker, Russell Ackoff, W. Edwards Deming and many, many more.

If you have an interest in individual or organisational change, transformation or coaching there should be something of interest here for you.  I’ll be exploring the application of ideas from the greatest thinkers of our time to a wide variety of issues in order to improve such things as personal and organisational communication, strategy creation, creativity and innovation, policy formation, performance management, governance, marketing, sales, facilitation and problem solving.

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