Courses

Course Code Description Duration Dates Location Price (Ex VAT)
NLP Courses
NLP-PRC-01 NLP Practitioner – London
The Watt Works 20-Day NLP Practitioner course is a full-length, high-quality, 120 hour course that covers all the traditional NLP Practitioner concepts, methods and techniques in a highly interactive, experiential learning context – with a particular emphasis on the application of NLP to the world of work. If you want to make significant improvements in your own performance and those around you, radically improve your communication skills, deal with conflict, create more effective relationships and increase your ability to influence others … this course is for you. This course is held at weekends only – check dates on the detailed course overview.View More Details
20 Days Weekends from September 2011 London £1,995Note: Payment Plans Available. Call for More Details.
NLP-PRC-02 NLP Practitioner – Cheshire
The Watt Works 20-Day NLP Practitioner course is a full-length, high-quality, 120 hour course that covers all the traditional NLP Practitioner concepts, methods and techniques in a highly interactive, experiential learning context – with a particular emphasis on the application of NLP to the world of work. If you want to make significant improvements in your own performance and those around you, radically improve your communication skills, deal with conflict, create more effective relationships and increase your ability to influence others … this course is for you. This course is held at weekends only – check dates on the detailed course overview.View More Details
20 Days Weekends from October 2011 University of Chester, Cheshire £1,995Note: Payment Plans Available. Call for More Details.
NLP-BUS-04 NLP for Business
Our intensive, 5-day ‘NLP for Business’ courses are specifically geared towards the application of NLP within a business and management context, and will radically transform the way in which you interact and operate. This will significantly enhance your ability to influence, build successful relationships, deal with conflict, build confidence and considerably increase your overall effectiveness.View More Details
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NLP-MET-09 Precision Questioning for Quality Information
The Meta Model was one of the original concepts developed in NLP and remains one of the most flexible and powerful. Modelled from the work of exceptional change agents, the Meta Model offers a set of listening and questioning skills that, respectfully used, can beneficially uncover the hidden patterns of communication that are present but unspoken in any discussion.View More Details
2 Days 19-20 March 2012 Carlton House, Westminster, London £320
NLP-MET-08 Precision Questioning for Quality Information
The Meta Model was one of the original concepts developed in NLP and remains one of the most flexible and powerful. Modelled from the work of exceptional change agents, the Meta Model offers a set of listening and questioning skills that, respectfully used, can beneficially uncover the hidden patterns of communication that are present but unspoken in any discussion.View More Details
2 Days 26-27 January 2012 Booths Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire £320
NLP-MIL-03 Using Language for Influence and Engagement
The Milton Model was one of the earlier concepts developed within NLP and was developed from the work of the legendary psychiatrist and hypnotherapist, Milton H. Erickson MD. Erickson’s language patterns have now been taught to thousands of others for use in influential, everyday conversation as well as within formal hypnosis. This is an ideal course for those wishing to empower others and significantly enhance their ability to influence.View More Details
2 Days 27-28 February 2012 Carlton House, Westminster, London £320
NLP-CST-03 NLP for Customer Service
Our 2-day NLP Skills for Customer Service examines how NLP concepts and approaches can benefit interactions between your people and your customers, leading to more mutually satisfying experiences. A core skill set within NLP allows us to build powerful rapport with customers from a wide variety of backgrounds and obtain glimpses into the inner world of customers from their words, physiology and gestures, enabling your organisation’s representatives to respond to and interact with the customer in a way that maximizes effective communication, trust and a mutually acceptable resolution to disputes or disagreement.View More Details
2 Days 20-21 February 2012 Booths Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire £520
NLP-TCS-07 Turbo-Charged Selling with NLP
NLP offers a set of powerful techniques that have been proven to result in significant increases in sales performance. We’ll enable you to glimpse the seldom-seen internal world of others through the language and gestures they use. NLP will change the way you operate in, and think about, the world around you. You will radically improve your ability to create long-lasting relationships based on trust and integrity. Imagine what that would do for your sales performance.View More Details
3 Days 29 February – 2 March 2012 Carlton House, Westminster, London £1,050
NLP-TCS-08 Turbo-Charged Selling with NLP
NLP offers a set of powerful techniques that have been proven to result in significant increases in sales performance. We’ll enable you to glimpse the seldom-seen internal world of others through the language and gestures they use. NLP will change the way you operate in, and think about, the world around you. You will radically improve your ability to create long-lasting relationships based on trust and integrity. Imagine what that would do for your sales performance.View More Details
3 Days 13-15 February 2012 Booths Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire £1,050
NLP-SCM-03 NLP for Classroom Management
This course provides a thorough grounding in the use of NLP within a teaching and classroom management context and will provide skills in establishing rapport, the effective use of language for influencing pupils, dealing with difficult behaviour, defining and agreeing outcomes, use of metaphor and using a variety of techniques to ensure engagement and commitment.View More Details
3 Days 07-09 March 2012 Booths Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire £580
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Facilitation, Creativity and Change Courses
FCC-AST-05 Applying Systems Thinking
Our Applying Systems Thinking Course will provide you with a thorough and practical grounding in the variety of systems thinking methods and approaches available – including Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model, Soft systems, Critical Systems Heuristics, SODA, Systems Dynamics, cognitive mapping, Six Sigma, Lean and more. Ideal for those designing, leading or managing change.View More Details
3 Days 06-08 February 2012 Gestalt Centre, London £750
FCC-LCO-03 Lean Thinking and Operations Management
Our Lean Thinking Course will provide you with a thorough grounding in Lean Thinking within an Operations Management context, and ensure you have a thorough appreciation of the various tools and techniques available. Ideal for managers or leaders charged with implementing Lean Thinking in their organisation.View More Details
3 Days 22-24 February 2012 Gestalt Centre, London £750
FCC-FTF-10 Facilitation Training – Foundation
This course will provide you with a solid foundation for becoming a trained independent facilitator. You’ll learn about group dynamics and group development, workshop design, dealing with difficult personalities and a number of techniques that will have you up and running and practising your new found skills from day one back at the office.View More Details
2 Days 16-17 April 2012 Booths Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire £520
FCC-FTF-08 Facilitation Training – Foundation
This course will provide you with a solid foundation for becoming a trained independent facilitator. You’ll learn about group dynamics and group development, workshop design, dealing with difficult personalities and a number of techniques that will have you up and running and practising your new found skills from day one back at the office.View More Details
2 Days 16-17 January 2012 Carlton House, Westminster, London £520
FCC-FTF-09 Facilitation Training – Foundation
This course will provide you with a solid foundation for becoming a trained independent facilitator. You’ll learn about group dynamics and group development, workshop design, dealing with difficult personalities and a number of techniques that will have you up and running and practising your new found skills from day one back at the office.View More Details
2 Days TBC Grosvenor House, Belfast £520
FCC-CRT-11 Creativity Skills Training (2-Days)
This course will provide you with a powerful methodology and toolkit for enhancing individual and group creativity, enabling you to confidently lead yourself and others through ideas generation, development, evaluation and selection.View More Details
2 Days 18-19 April 2012 Booths Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire £520
FCC-CRT-09 Creativity Skills Training (2-Days)
This course will provide you with a powerful methodology and toolkit for enhancing individual and group creativity, enabling you to confidently lead yourself and others through ideas generation, development, evaluation and selection.View More Details
2 Days 02-03 April 2012 Carlton House, Westminster, London £520
FCC-CRT-08 Creativity Skills Training (2-Days)
This course will provide you with a powerful methodology and toolkit for enhancing individual and group creativity, enabling you to confidently lead yourself and others through ideas generation, development, evaluation and selection.View More Details
2 Days TBC Grosvenor House, Belfast £520
FCC-CNF-08 Conflict Resolution Skills
Provides a wide range of techniques to help you manage conflict within either a work or personal context. We’ll share a number of powerful and practical techniques and strategies with you, enabling you to defuse situations, deal with aggressive behaviour, enhance communication and negotiation, generate commitment and improve relationships … and much more.View More Details
2 Days 09-10 April 2012 Carlton House, Westminster, London £520
FCC-CNF-09 Conflict Resolution Skills
Provides a wide range of techniques to help you manage conflict within either a work or personal context. We’ll share a number of powerful and practical techniques and strategies with you, enabling you to defuse situations, deal with aggressive behaviour, enhance communication and negotiation, generate commitment and improve relationships … and much more.View More Details
2 Days 12-13 April 2012 Booths Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire £520
FCC-CNF-07 Conflict Resolution Skills
Provides a wide range of techniques to help you manage conflict within either a work or personal context. We’ll share a number of powerful and practical techniques and strategies with you, enabling you to defuse situations, deal with aggressive behaviour, enhance communication and negotiation, generate commitment and improve relationships … and much more.View More Details
2 Days TBC Grosvenor House, Belfast £520
FCC-MOT-03 Motivation Skills
This 1 day course is designed to convey principles and techniques that are based upon a modern understanding of the subject of motivation and engagement, rather than relying on conventional notions that people are solely motivated by material rewards, such as pay increases, commission and bonuses. Although such incentives certainly have their place, it is clear that they do not fully explain – or engage – human motivation and enthusiasm. Motivating people to perform to their potential requires a greater degree of skill, flexibility and understanding and this course is designed to deliver just that.View More Details
1 Day 1 March 2012 Booths Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire £310
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Personal Development
PDV-DWD-06 Dealing With Difficult People
Providing a wide range of skills and techniques to deal with difficult people in a variety of contexts – including establishing rapport, maximising non-verbal body language, providing feedback, defusing situations and gaining commitment.View More Details
1 Day 26 April 2012 Booths Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire £310
PDV-DWD-07 Dealing With Difficult People
Providing a wide range of skills and techniques to deal with difficult people in a variety of contexts – including establishing rapport, maximising non-verbal body language, providing feedback, defusing situations and gaining commitment.View More Details
1 Day 24 January 2012 Carlton House, Westminster, London £310
PDV-PRE-06 Presenting Persuasively
This will give you a wide range of skills and techniques for presenting confidently, powerfully and persuasively. Learn how to structure your presentations for maximum impact, how to manage your nerves, engage your audience, manage difficult people and more. You’ll soon be making confident, powerful and dynamic presentations.View More Details
3 Days 2 – 4 April 2012 Booths Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire £640
PDV-STR-06 Stress Management
This course will give you a set of practical skills and techniques to deal with stress. You’ll develop a range of healthy and effective coping strategies, and change your patterns of behaviour in response to stress, as well as giving you a number of tools for reducing the stress levels of those around you or those you manage.View More Details
2 Days 12 – 13 April 2012 Booths Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire £520
PDV-STR-07 Stress Management
This course will give you a set of practical skills and techniques to deal with stress. You’ll develop a range of healthy and effective coping strategies, and change your patterns of behaviour in response to stress, as well as giving you a number of tools for reducing the stress levels of those around you or those you manage.View More Details
2 Days 12-13 March 2012 Carlton House, Westminster, London £520
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Leadership Development & Management Development
LMD-VAR-99 Leadership & Management Development
Our leadership development and management development training courses are designed to achieve fundamental changes in the way senior managers view and perceive the world, while creating significant enhancement in their leadership capabilities and delivering major improvements in performance. We deliver a wide range of courses for our clients usually at their own premises. Courses may also be delivered in modular format, and include areas such as leadership skills, systems thinking, leading and managing change, building high-performance teams, social media, consultancy skills, project management etc. All courses are highly tailorable and configurable.View More Details
1 to 5 Days Upon Client Request Booths Hall, Knutsford, Cheshireor

Client Premises

From £600 per day… for up to 10 delegates
Course Code Description Duration Dates Location Price (Ex VAT)
Performance Improvement
PER-RHY-06 Working Patterns for Maximum Efficiency
In the modern business world we are often admonished to work smarter, not harder, yet this can sometimes be a little difficult to put into practice. This course provides practical skills and perspectives to do just that by encouraging delegates to fundamentally re-examine their working patterns.View More Details
2 Days 08-09 February 2012 Carlton House, Westminster, London £520
PER-RHY-07 Working Patterns for Maximum Efficiency
In the modern business world we are often admonished to work smarter, not harder, yet this can sometimes be a little difficult to put into practice. This course provides practical skills and perspectives to do just that by encouraging delegates to fundamentally re-examine their working patterns.View More Details
2 Days 24-25 April 2012 Booths Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire £520
PER-RYG-04 Raise Your Game (For Individuals)This will show you how to create real momentum to achieve the changes you want to make in your personal or professional life. You’ll learn how to manage conflict within yourself and with others, how to manage stress, maintain your focus and cope with multiple tasks and demands. If you want to begin tap into your true potential and accelerate your progress towards your desired future, this course is for you. 3 Days Upon Client Request Booths Hall, Knutsford, Cheshireor

Client Premises

From £600 per day… for up to 10 delegates
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Location and Costs

Our public courses are delivered at one of our luxurious training premises across the UK …

Booths Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire – An 18th Century manor house set in 220 acres in the heart of the Cheshire countryside – within easy reach of Manchester, Liverpool, Warrington, Preston, Stoke-on-Trent, Stafford, Birmingham, Wrexham and Chester and the counties of Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside Staffordshire, Shropshire, West Midlands and Flintshire. Delegates will be able to enjoy the beautiful parkland, woodland walks along with the extensive sporting facilities available.

Carlton House, Westminster, London – This stylish and comfortable venue has been extensively modernised whilst retaining its period character and boasts high quality, comprehensively equipped training rooms ideally suited for the delivery of the company’s growing range of business and personal development focused training courses. Although situated in a desirable, easily accessed location close to Pall Mall, traffic noise is minimal and delegates can experience a sense of comparative tranquility whilst engaging in their learning.

Grosvenor House on Glengall Street, Belfast – is a comfortable and well equipped training venue located in the heart of Belfast. It boasts well-appointed training rooms within a minute’s walk from the Europa Bus and Train Station and less than five minutes from the City Hall. The venue’s excellent location puts it in immediate proximity to major transport links, a variety of hotels catering for all budgets and it is a stone’s throw from some of Belfast’s most famous cultural landmarks such as the Grand Opera House, the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and the famous Crown Liquor Saloon, a perfectly restored Victorian public house operated effectively as a working museum by the National Trust.

All costs include all materials, lunch and refreshments. Significant discounts are available for group bookings. All courses can also be provided in-house from £600 per day for up to 10 delegates. Can’t find exactly what you’re looking for? We can provide a tailor-made course to meet your needs. Call us for more details.

How personal development courses can improve your business

How personal development courses can improve your business

It's a fact of life that, if you want to be successful in business, you need to have the right people skills. They can be just as important as anything else, if not more so, because if you want to get on with colleagues and appeal to clients you need to know how to act. That's why personal development courses are so important, and if you invest in them you can look forward to markedly improved performance.

Personal development courses can be tailored to you and your needs and can take on a variety of forms. Depending on what you're looking for you'll be able to learn how to deal with more difficult people, discover ways to develop rapport and successful working relationships, improve your interpersonal communication skills, reduce stress and even learn how to be more persuasive in the business world; truly offering numerous advantages. If key members of staff engage in such courses you'll easily be able to notice the difference, drastically improving their performance and creating a happier and more effective workforce at the same time.

NLP training courses - what are they, and why do I need them?

While there are many personal development courses available these days, NLP training courses have got to be one of the most popular. NLP courses can help to transform the way your employees operate, teaching them how to deal with other people and create better working relationships.

Using powerful NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) techniques, your employees will be able to explore their behaviour and adjust it accordingly, resulting in effective negotiators, salesmen and general communication experts. NLP courses can be tailored to the individual business (and indeed individual attendees) to help ensure the most effective results, and with effective NLP training courses you'll soon notice the difference.

Facilitation training - take your employees to the next level

Facilitation training is also particularly popular, leaving you with employees you can trust to get the job done. With the right facilitation training you can be sure that key members of staff will be able to effectively facilitate workshops and meetings to achieve significant results, making facilitation training vital for anyone in a managerial setting where results are essential.

Finding the personal development courses/NLP courses that you're looking for

If you really want to get the best from your workforce, having access to the right personal development courses will be absolutely vital. You want a company that's guaranteed to deliver, backed up by sound teaching methods that give proven results. They should be able to offer facilitation training, NLP courses and anything else that could be required, and if you're looking for the best in NLP training courses why not come straight to us?

Why Watt Works for facilitation or NLP training courses?

When you come to us you can be sure of results. We pride ourselves in offering facilitation training and NLP courses of the highest quality, teaching real-world skills that can easily be integrated into everyday business life. We can even tailor our facilitation and NLP courses to suit your precise needs, so if you want to discuss the options make sure to come to us and you can enjoy facilitation and NLP training courses that can help your business thrive.

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All our courses include lunch and refreshments.


Our open programme courses are held at one our luxurious premises across the UK ...


Our Booths Hall training venue is an 18th century Georgian manor house set within a stunning, 200 acre, countryside environment in the heart of Cheshire.


Our Carlton House training venue, located in the heart of Westminster (London) is a stylish and comfortable venue that has been extensively modernised, whilst retaining its period character. It boasts high quality, comprehensively equipped training rooms ideally suited for the delivery of our growing range of business and personal development focused training courses.


Our Belfast training venue is Grosvenor House on Glengall Street - a comfortable and well equipped training venue located in the heart of Belfast. It boasts well-appointed training rooms within a minute’s walk from the Europa Bus and Train Station and less than five minutes from the City Hall.


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