I attended a networking meeting this week and the speaker - talking about resilience and remote working used this quote from Maya Angelou. It resonated for me with the NLP idea of 'being at cause'.  If you're not familiar with that, it comes from the relationship of cause and effect.  When someone has a problem, they are often experiencing the 'effect' end of the equation...

Earlier this week was William Shakespeare's birthday.  As part of 'The Birthday Weekend' celebrations in Stratford-upon-Avon I visited the Parish Church, where flowers are laid on Shakespeare's grave by members of the local community.

Yes, that is me.  Yes, that is Wembley.  Yes, there are 80,000 people there for an England international match. If you know me, you know that football isn't my thing...

In the UK, many people hold the view that there is a big difference in the culture between the North of England and the South. Sometimes Scotland is included in ‘the North’ but mostly it keeps its own cultural counsel.

I have often been asked, 'How did you get into teaching NLP?' The story started in 1991...

I recently heard about a junior member of staff who hadn’t been to work for ten days. She cited ‘mental health issues’. Her boyfriend had called time on their relationship and she wasn’t coping well. It’s one more in number of similar occurrences across a number of different organisations that have been mentioned to me by clients and colleagues.

Here is my checklist for managing a hybrid-working team. It might not be exhaustive, but if you can say yes to everything on the list, you’re probably doing pretty well…

Coaching works. No doubt about it. The quality conversations between a person and their coach can lead to massive increases in performance, to hugely enhanced confidence and skills or to the resolution of long-standing problems. But who should coach your people?

I’m hearing tales from HR about good candidates who won’t accept a job offer unless they can work at home. But is it the right thing to do? Your employees might want to work from home, but what if it isn’t good for them?

I grew up in the Yorkshire Dales, where every village green is also a cricket pitch and despite attending a State School, cricket was played in the Summer. Just not by girls. However, my Dad liked to watch all sports and somewhere along the line I learned about cricket. So, when I started watching the World Cup in 2019 I did actually understand what was going on! And I got completely hooked. Here's why do I love this weird sport so much?

I’ve been thinking a lot about teams and why we need to work in teams. It’s a common feature of most workplaces, that each person has a role and also belongs to a team. Sometimes we refer to all the people who report to one manager as being a team, even if their work doesn’t overlap. However, most teams involve working together to some extent.

I can’t help wondering how many people have learned NLP as a personal development tool and haven’t realised how valuable it is in business.