I know Christmas hasn’t even been and gone yet but I am here to talk about “new year resolutions”, or more importantly, setting goals that you can achieve.

Whether it is to do with work, or something personal, we at Noggin are utilizing some NLP techniques in a one-day workshop in January to help you make 2009 your most rewarding yet. A workshop that will enable you to set realistic goals and leave you with empowering techniques to make sure you follow through on your dreams for the year.

“New Year, New You” is taking place in Reading, Berkshire, on Monday 12th January 2009 and costs just £115.

The best investment you can make right now is on yourself. Find out more about this NLP Workshop on our website.

With the Olympics just gone and the start of the new football season I have lately seen a lot of new sporting heroes entering the main stage. In listening to interviews it often becomes obvious that to get to where they are now they have sacrificed many years of their lives. It’s all worth it to them in the end I guess but what if there was a different way of reaching the top in a professional sporting environment?

Arton Baleci is taking a different path - have a look at his project on his website The Beautiful Aim to find out how he does it!

Watching the Olympics and hearing so much about performance and coaching it got me wondering about what’s the difference in performance management at work?

I was putting together an invite to an event we are running at the end of the month, promoting our Challenging Conversations training nugget and was wondering how to show how relevant it is given current market conditions. It got me thinking of the 70 odd times we have run the session and how we start it with a couple of cheeky questions:

“So what’s the overall intention in having a conversation about someone’s performance?”

The unamimous answer from approximately 1000 line managers:

“To improve that individual’s performance for the benefit of the business”

Great answer which I’m sure you might agree with. Then we ask the really cheeky question: (more…)

Daryll has just returned from another week with his mentor Dr. John Grinder and is ‘bouncing off the walls’ with enthusiasm for the new coaching patterns he has been playing with.

He will be running a one-off day of New Code NLP on the 13th May at our premises in Reading.

If you have never experienced NLP before, this is a really practical introduction in ‘plain english’. Daryll will be using high performance coaching activities including the high performance game used to train pilots at NASA.

For experienced Practitioners, Daryll will be demonstrating how you can make your NLP even cleaner (with less content), more generative (working with ’state’) and more empowering for your clients (focussing on solo application).

The cost for the day is £75 (excluding VAT) and it’s open to everyone so feel free to bring a friend or colleague. The dress code is informal; ensure that you clothing allows freedom of movement.

Numbers are limited and it’s ‘first come first served’. To reserve a place today: Call Swen on 0118 900 1527 or complete the form on our contact page.

Best regards

The team at noggin.

Our premises is Davidson House, Forbury Square, Reading, Berks, RG1 3EU (25 minutes from Paddington by train).

The dress code is informal, ensure that you clothing allows freedom of movement

As you may or may not know we are running our next Certified NLP Practitioner course in June. “But you have a nice calendar on your website with these dates already so why is this Noggin News now?” you might be asking yourself.

Well, in March Daryll has successfully completed his New Code Trainers Training with John Grinder and Carmen Bostic-St Claire (congratulations!) and has come back full of enthousiasm about sharing some of the latest New Code developments with you on this course.

Interesting to you? Contact me to find out more!

Today another group has successfully completed their 8-day Certified NLP Practitioner for Business course with noggin!!!

We will post some of this group’s testimonals here as they come in (let’s give them some time to enjoy their new skills in real life!). If you would like to know how delegates from previous courses feel about their course please have a look here.

Our next NLP Practitioner course is running in June and there is still a space available for you.

Intrested? Have a look at our NLP Practitioner course offering or contact us direct.

“What do you do with a boss that has meetings and you have no idea what was agreed at the end?”, “How do you reduce the chances of others misunderstanding your instructions?” and, “What is the most powerful medium for communication?” Were three of the questions that fueled the speech that I delivered to the Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce this morning. I provided some immediate take-away tips and tricks.

For those who attended, great to meet you - let us know what happens when you put it into practice…

This evening I joined Paul Spencer from Stonemartin to deliver a brief business seminar to undergraduates from University of Reading… Questions from the audience included, "What’s the best way to market a new business?" and, "What makes a great leader?"

Clients, industry partners and members of the business press were invited to join Daryll and Ben for the launch of ‘Can we start again?’ - Daryll’s new book.

The book is an exploration of NLP applied to business interactions and is endorsed by Dr. John Grinder - the co-creator of NLP.

Daryll and Ben both spoke at the event and then it got a bit messy with wine tasting provided by A Matter of Taste.

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