June 29th, 2009
Around 7% of the UK workforce is now unemployed and the number is likely to continue rising throughout this year, according to ‘analysts’ or, if you prefer, people who are no better at predicting the future than you or I but who have learned how to sound as if they are!
These redundancies are a statistical and economic fact of life at the moment.. but there is also a human side, quite apart from these. A human impact on the person who was previously a carpenter, office worker, manager, shop assistant, etc. and who has just been told that that’s all changed and that instead they are now, wait for it, ‘redundant’. Read the rest of this entry »
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May 29th, 2009
It often happens in relationships, especially after the heady days of early infatuation have passed, that one of the duo takes on the role of bossy parent or bossy teacher. Now instead of two people relating to each other as equal adults one is attempting to iron out the other’s imperfections! Imperfections, that is, as the bossy person perceives them.
The light-hearted banter, fun and sense of exploring and discovering things together as a team become replaced by relentless, tiring, and love-sapping struggle: a struggle by one side to retain their right to do things their way and by the other side to mould their partner into how they ’should be’.
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May 27th, 2009
One minute the PC was working fine and the next minute it was a if an alien force had taken it over.
Place the cursor over an e-mail in the Outlook Inbox and suddenly it would speedily scroll down through every header in the inbox! My immediate thought was that some malware had slipped through the defences – so I closed Outlook and tried to run Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware – but as fast as I loaded the programme it shut itself down.
‘This is serious,’ I thought ‘It’s even taken over my defence programmes!’
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May 24th, 2009
The NLP Master Practitioner on the Isle of Purbeck finished on Thursday – 18 great days of NLP in three modules from February through May with the finale being a High Ropes session in Rempstone Forest, Dorset.
The High Zip Wire
There were two key elements to this Ropes session: the Cows Tails course and the Zip Wire. And both are high!
The Cows Tails course is done in pairs and you each manage your own safety with two short ropes (’cows tails’) attached to your waist. You have the opportunity of doing three lateral traverses through the trees, each of which is higher then the previous one. On the third traverse you could be crossing along a swinging and wobbly log nearly 50′ (16 mtrs) above the forest floor. 
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April 17th, 2009
In our Pegasus NLP training courses we’re a bit different from many other NLP training providers: we actually value and encourage questions and challenges from participants on our courses.
We do this for a number of very good reasons: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Add new tag, challenges, healthy ageing, live forever, nlp training courses, quality of life, training providers, very good reasons, workshop s
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April 16th, 2009
The latest Pegasus NLP Newsletter looks at healthy ageing and suggest 10 ways of getting this into action. The newsletter is here: http://www.nlp-now.co.uk/nlp_newsletter_current.htm
There’s another article on ageing here: http://www.pe2000.com/ageing_attitude.htm
Tags: Add new tag, healthy ageing, NLP, pegasus
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April 7th, 2009
Many. many years ago, in my pre-NLP days, I was struggling to free myself from nicotine addiction. So I went to see a South London hypnotist so that he would ‘make me’ stop me smoking.
He was a lovely elderly gentleman by the name of Lt Col. Crook and, funnily enough, his one session worked. And, despite the stress of managing a very busy staff agency in the city of London, I was able to remain free of cigarettes. Now in the office and for the convenience of our clients we had very good filter coffee available all day long. So, to make up for the missing buzz of the nicotine, I turned to drinking lots of coffee – all day long.
And it worked… it gave me the necessary buzz. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: losing my mind, nicotine addiction, NLP, panics, severe anxiety
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April 2nd, 2009
Last night’s episode of the BBC’s The Apprentice didn’t do any of the participants any favours – other than to make them better known to the millions of viewers. We again had a group of ruthless wannabe’s trying to prove their ability as managers, to a millionaire property speculator turned TV host.
However it makes reasonably good TV. And it does provide some useful lessons on how not to be a manager or leader. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: development workshops, good listener, team member, The Apprentice, value of teamwork
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March 26th, 2009
The BBC launched a new series of The Apprentice last evening here in the UK and so, over the next three months, 12 precious hours of my life will be devoted to watching it. I did try to ignore it last year but succumbed after, I think, the third episode and was once again hooked. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: apprentice, business managers, confidence without competence, dynamic style, nlp courses, reality tv, self belief
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March 14th, 2009
We’re into Day 2 of the current NLP Core Skills programme. It’s a great group, as always, and as part of today’s schedule we have been exploring NLP and Rapport. And discussing how many NLP books and NLP trainings still offer the ‘matching body language’ technique as a method for creating rapport.
This technique has been around now since NLP began in the early 70s – nearly 40 years ago! Yet, amazingly, some people still believe that it holds true today. Read the rest of this entry »
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