Systems Thinking

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...

Applying Systems Thinking to the Christmas Season, part 2

by Damian Hamill 13:00 - 23rd December 2011

I talked earlier about a number of categories of ‘rules’ that evolve to govern the self-organising systems that constitute families. Let’s look further at those categories.

Applying Systems Thinking to the Christmas Season

by Damian Hamill

Whilst I hope you personally have a very merry Christmas, it is axiomatic that, for many, Christmas is the exact opposite, with family gatherings creating anger, distress, conflict and upset. Indeed, many telephone counselling services report that for this very reason Christmas is consistently one of their busiest times...

Making Space for Sleep

by Damian Hamill 10:30 - 20th December 2011

The great inventor, Thomas Edison, said: “The person who sleeps eight or ten hours a night is never fully asleep and never fully awake - they have only different degrees of doze through the twenty-four hours." But let’s face it, Edison, inventor of the electric light-bulb, was in the daylight business. ...

What’s normal? Social Proof theory for improving efficiency.

by Damian Hamill 10:00 - 17th October 2011

Reading time: approximately 90 seconds. Not for the first time I am indebted to Andy Smith for pointing me in the direction of a fascinating piece of research showing how social psychology principles can be harnessed for positive effect in the real world. It shows how the Social Proof principle...

The Piddle Principle – a new paradigm in systems thinking?

by Damian Hamill 13:14 - 29th July 2011

Those of you who have been following Watt Works for a while will know that we are very big on systems thinking and have a world-class systems thinking team offering training and consultancy in the field. One of the fundamental concepts of systems thinking is that we are all...

Applying Systems Thinking – course retrospecitive.

by Damian Hamill 13:33 - 16th May 2011

Recently the team at Watt Works delivered a three day training programme, Applying Systems Thinking, at our London training venue, the Royal College of Pathologists in Westminster. As Director of Training, I dropped in to observe the course and would like to share a few impressions of the event. ...

Systems thinking and Systems Practice – Separating the Wheat from the Chaff

by Geoff Elliot 15:18 - 26th April 2011

Over the past 60 years or so we have had a succession of management concepts across industry and commerce. These have included (and are not limited to) BPR / BPM, TQM work study / industrial engineering, knowledge management, quality management and more recently six sigma, lean sigma...

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

Super Selection of Services

by ClickConsult 16:52 - 30th November 2010

We at Watt Works believe that we have the finest selection of business coaching, development and training services available anywhere. From creative thinking courses to conflict resolution training, we can empower staff, management and executives with the skills which allow an organisation to flourish even in the most competitive...

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