Tips For Running Emotionally Intelligent Meetings – from NLP and elsewhere
Do you ever find yourself in meetings that drag on, don’t achieve as much as they should, in which people seem to be bored and disengaged? When I was an employee, I took part in a lot of unproductive...
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How to negotiate better with NLP – the ’123-XL’ model
Some people, like my lovely wife Jules, seem to be naturally good at negotiation. Others, like me, have had to learn through bitter experience and review of what’s happened, plus, of course, learning...
View ArticleThe best business NLP book for aspiring leaders
NLP At Work: The Essence of Excellence (3rd Edition) by Sue Knight 388pp (Nicholas Brealey Publishing 2009) This is a well-structured and clear overview of NLP as applied to the business world. Sue...
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Nervous in meetings? My top tip: Know your outcome
If you know what you want to get from a meeting, it makes it much more likely that you will be happy with the end result. There’s also another effect of being outcome-focused in meetings which may...
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Leadership and engagement round-up: how to cure a toxic workplace
A quick summary of some interesting items I’ve read recently about how to make your workplace more emotionally intelligent and get your staff engaged with their work. First up is Gallup chairman and...
View ArticleGood news if you live in a country that PayPal doesn’t cover
Well, most countries not covered by PayPal anyway. The Coaching Leaders online store uses PayPal to take payments. I had not realised, until alerted by a frustrated customer in Egypt, that there are...
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Is your boss insane? And what to do about it
I’ve been sent this infographic from the people at Learnstuff.com which presents some rather alarming findings about bad bosses. I hesitated for a while to post this because it’s so unremittingly...
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How To Engage Your Young Talent At The Start Of A New Job Or Project
While thinking about the challenges of managing ‘Generation Y’ or ‘Millennials’, I came across this excellent article on the HBR blog by Chris Resto, author of ‘Recruit or Die: How Any Business Can...
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The Best Podcasts For Brain Science, Understanding The Mind and People
Here’s my personal selection of some podcasts in the general area of understanding how people tick – ranging from neuroscience to management tips. The common denominator is that they all feature...
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When to use Appreciative Inquiry – and when not to
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is an attractive approach to change for many reasons; it generates results fast, it engages people, it liberates creativity, it moves away from ‘blame culture’, and – not...
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