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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...

Occupied no more – no goals set means no goals reached!

by Damian Hamill 10:30 - 1st March 2012
I have just been sent a newspaper clipping about the final removal of the Occupy movement protesters from outside St Paul’s Cathedral by someone who read a blog I wrote on the subject last October. He seemed to think that the content of my blog had been prophetic...

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...

Ram Dass, Lobsters and Solution-focused Coaching

by Damian Hamill 10:30 - 6th February 2012
I remember many years ago listening to a recording of a lecture by the spiritual teacher Ram Dass.  Ram Dass told of how his guru would respond when someone came to him and told him he had a problem - "You do not have a problem - you have need...

NLP and State Management in Conflict Resolution

by Damian Hamill 10:30 - 27th January 2012
For the last 24 hours or so I have been suffering from a really dreadful bug.  Fever, hacking cough – all the usual stuff.  As a result my mood has been vile.  Let me tell you a little bit about how that relates to a concept from NLP.

Why the England Cricket Team could benefit from a tea-cup!

by Paul Russell 10:30 - 23rd January 2012
Over the last few days I have been watching the Pakistan v England test match in Dubai. England, the current number 1 ranked team in the world, were comprehensively beaten by 10 wickets inside 3 days! Let me give you some insights from the perspective of an experienced sport...

Rabbis, Hitchens and Systems – NLP and Beliefs!

by Damian Hamill 17:21 - 17th January 2012
The other day I presented to the Systems and Cybernetics in Organisations (SCiO) Group at Manchester Business School on the exotically named subject ‘Aligning Intra-personal Systems with Organisational Systems via NLP’.  Without going into too much detail of the presentation let me look at one of the analogies I used...

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...

Sleep – a very productive night-shift!

by Damian Hamill 10:30 - 5th January 2012
Today I read a post from an intelligent, accomplished and resourceful person lamenting the fact that if she wanted to get another two hours work done a day she would not be able to continue getting out of bed at 7:30am. Let’s set aside the fact that half past...

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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.

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