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The Minister speaks
I was looking forward to seeing how the professional speaker would address the audience. He was a UK Government Minister and the keynote speaker at the conference. I was in the audience for the opening session because I would later be presenting a workshop.
My heart sank when he stood up holding his sheaf of notes. Over 45 long and exceedingly boring minutes later he stopped. I had long since given up attempting to follow what, if anything, he was saying. Instead I was studying the various strategies that members of audience were using to stay awake. Fortunately I was over to one side of the room so I had a good view to do this. Unfortunately I was at the opposite side of the room to the doors so couldn’t quietly escape as I noticed a number of people had done. Continue reading
Mention ‘brand’ and most people think about sales and marketing. But ‘brand’ can be a much wider topic if we think about it as being the emotions which people associate with people as well as with products. (Last week’s 5 Twitter Tips on @pegasusnlp were about branding and how this is relevant to your career or your personal business.)
How is your career brand doing?
(1) Pegasus NLP Tip: ‘Your brand’. We each have one. It’s how we want others to feel about us: colleagues, customers, managers, interviewers etc
Think of your own career brand – do people think of you as
- approachable or aloof
- wise or a bit dim
- someone who knows their stuff or someone who is bluffing Continue reading
Rapport – feeling at ease with someone
Rapport is what we experience when we feel at ease with and trust one another. It is the result of our attitudes towards one another.
In NLP we consider rapport to be an essential foundation for good communication because without rapport there may be a lot of talk but there is little genuine exchange of views.
It can be useful to have a variety of ways of facilitating and enhancing this rapport and NLP provides us with lots of these, some of which are manipulative, some are clumsy, and some are elegant and respectful. (By the way, in NLP the word “elegant” is used to describe the most simple and effective way of doing something.)
Last week’s @pegasusnlp Twitter Tips began a new series of tips on Rapport so let’s look at the featured Tips (these are in italics below): Continue reading
Motivating people their way
Here at Pegasus NLP we have developed an approach to motivating people called Consultative Motivating. It uses a number of elements of which two are fundamental:
- Motivate people their way: use their motivational style rather than yours – and discover this by chatting with them
- Motivate through consulting rather than lecturing. Remember old sales maxim ‘when you’re telling you’re not selling’.
The rest of this article includes last week’s series of 5 Twitter Tips on motivating people. These are in italics. (The Twitter Tips series is published on @pegasusnlp daily. Each week has a theme and this is followed by a blog article during the following week which develops that theme.) Continue reading
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