Consultancy, research, authoring and editing in the field of business
Effective communication is not just about the words you use, it’s about understanding the way people think - so that your phrases truly work.
For businesses:
- Analyse qualitative data to provide insight into the way your customers think
- Guidance on how to phrase communications to match their patterns and preferences
For authors and publishers:
- Exquisite editing - preserve your voice and style while enhancing the clarity, logic and structure of your work
- Original writing for publication
For individuals:
- Explore your `inner landscape’ of thought via one-to-one coaching
- Free your mind to find new solutions
Background:
- More than 30 years' experience of university research and supervision; writing for publication; consulting to business; and coaching
- Informed by in-depth knowledge of metaphors, beliefs, presuppositions, motivational patterns, systemic thinking and more within the language people use
- Accredited in Clean Language and NLP
- Centrally involved in pioneering the new field of Clean Language Interviewing
Selected publications
Cairns-Lee H, Lawley J, Tosey P. (2022)
How do you get a good quality answer? Now, that's a good question,
I by IMD
Dec 2022 pp.66-67
For pdf click here
Cairns-Lee H, Lawley J, Tosey P. (2022)
Clean Language Interviewing: Principles and Applications for Researchers and Practitioners, Emerald
Sample chapter here
Cairns-Lee H, Lawley J, Tosey P. Enhancing Researcher Reflexivity About the Influence of Leading Questions in Interviews
The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science August 2021
Pre-publication copy here
Tosey, P., Lawley, J. and Meese, R. (2014)
Eliciting Metaphor through Clean Language: an Innovation in Qualitative Research
British Journal of Management
25(3): 629-646.
Tosey, P. and Mathison, J. (2009)
NLP: a Critical Appreciation for Managers and Developers
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Tosey, P., Sullivan, W. and Meyer, M., (2013)
Clean Sources: Six Metaphors a Minute? University of Surrey (ISBN: 978-1-84469-029-9)
About
Phraseworks Ltd is a private company registered in England & Wales, company number 14652937
Company email address: phraseworks@proton.me
Not registered for VAT
