I’m often asked, “What makes a great NLP change agent?” I have trained over 150 Practitioners of NLP, and many of them – although they had a great time on the course, learnt techniques, gained new awareness, challenged their beliefs, got loads of personal value – still didn’t really ‘get it’. At the other extreme, [...]
Lessons from Science fiction
I love sci-fi – It’s our equivalent of the ancient myths. It’s a metaphoric vehicle to make philosophical observations about the world we live in. Many of the popular sci-fi stories from the past few decades have a common theme… The robots are taking over! The matrix; The Terminator; I Robot; 2001 A Space Odyssey; [...]
Creative dynamics become culture
The conditions you set for creative meetings, if practiced regularly, become attitude and eventually culture. Where’s your culture on this continuum? <—————————————————————————–> Supportive: Critical “Every contribution is valid” “That’s not very good” Adventurous Fearful “Go for it!” “Don’t screw up!” [...]
4 best ways to induce paranoia and undermine confidence
We all like the feelings of stress, anxiety and paranoia, so here are four tips to make sure that your organisational culture turns reasonable people into violent psychopaths: Confuse knowledge with ability By over valuing explicit knowledge you can completely ignore factors like attitude, experience, judgement and tacit ability. When knowledgeable people can’t do, they [...]
Talent?
There is currently one concept in organisational language that concerns me more than any other… It’s almost impossible to screw up a nine-box competency framework and throw it at the waste paper bin in an HR department without bouncing off a conversation about ‘the talent agenda’ or a person with ‘talent’ in their job description. [...]
Coaching Style Conversations
I’m often asked to help managers have ‘Coaching style’ conversations… It’s an interesting challenge. Understandably, because they have a vested interest in the outcome, managers tend to coach in two ways: Genuine Coaching: A genuine coaching conversation transforms performance by stimulating the ‘coachee’ to find a congruent, sustainable answer. The coach may be facilitating a [...]
Research schmesearch
When I was young there was a kid in the playground who liked to make up quizzes. He would come up with ten or so questions (things from his past knowledge and experience) and he would ask us the questions. But he would play as well, and when he won having answered all of the [...]
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