PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR INDIVIDUALS

One moment you’re cruising along on top of the world and feeling ‘invincible’ … and then suddenly … you’re not. Have you ever felt:
  • Scared to get out of your comfort zone?
  • That your mind is playing tricks on you?
  • No good under pressure/stress?
  • Unable to connect with … ?
  • A lack of confidence about … ?
  • Rudderless?
  • That you are procrastinating?
  • Desperate to create the right impression?
  • Unable to disassociate yourself with … ?
  • Wracked with self-doubt?
  • Stuck in a negative mindset about your abilities?
  • Worried about messing up? – or even
  • Slightly off your ‘A-game’?
I know I have … and if so, we can help.

It’s all in the mind. Effective personal development is all about us being able to get you to see the solution for yourself and then put effective strategies in place to move forward. You identify any issues that you may have and we then we create a bespoke package to work through on a 1-2-1 basis.

The mindset development coaching we offer is designed to help you “BE YOU … AT YOUR BEST – By Harnessing the Power of the Mind in order to Maximise your Performance in Challenging Situations”. It is rooted in NLP, often described as “the study of subjective experience through the use of a set of concepts and tools designed and empirically proven to increase personal effectiveness” or as “the gateway to the reprogramming of the mind and the key to the difference that makes the difference” or simply as “the study of excellence and how to reproduce it”.

The Package that we go through together is a series of discussions, exercises and templates which are quick, effective, safe, simple and easy to use – selected from the list below, each providing a solution to a particular issue. It is really, as we call it, a Self-Help-Toolkit for life. NLP presupposes that “You already have all the resources you need” and our coaching is designed for you to be able to ensure that you are always “You … at Your Best”.

“BE YOU … AT YOUR BEST” - PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR INDIVIDUALS

01. WHAT IS NLP?

The “Who-How-Why-What” of the ways NLP works and how it can help

02. PRESUPPOSITIONS

The key concepts fundamental to NLP – 13 of the principal cornerstones to understanding the process

03. ESSENCE

Be aware of yourself and find out about yourself, find resources and solutions from within as you put your brain ‘on the start-line’. This includes an exercise on discovering how you know when you’re ‘present’, when you’re ‘curious’ and when you’re ‘ready to go for it’

04. STATES

Learn about how to change your ‘state’ – from ‘everyday state’ (baseline) to ‘I’m in the zone’ state (up) or to ‘relaxed’ state (down) by changing your breathing pattern, posture, voice tone and mindset.

05. FOUR PILLARS OF NLP

How NLP works – Rapport, Outcome Focus, Sensory Acuity and Flexibility

06. THE LEARNING CYCLE

The 6 stages of learning – from Unconscious Incompetence to Mastery and Artistry

07. PARENT-ADULT-CHILD MODEL

The 3 human interaction ‘ego-states’. An excellent people management guide where awareness of these states will improve effectiveness throughout. You are the product of your environment – nature and nurture all rolled into one.

08. VALUES HIERARCHY

An exercise to help you find out what guides you and what makes you ‘tick’

09. CIRCLE OF THE PSYCHE

The 3 steps to ‘proactive’ self-balance and the art of good leadership

10. BE-DO-HAVE-BELIEVE

Harness the power of positive thoughts/actions. Identify that your frame of mind affects how you act and perform.

11. NEGATIVE MINDSET

Often the greatest barrier to achievement is … YOU. Identify and challenge your negative mindset and then create a strategy to neutralise, overcome and replace it. A series of exercises based around False/Limiting Beliefs, Sabotaging Behaviours, Excuses and Mixed Messages.

12. GOLDEN HOUR

An exercise to routinely kick-start your day with a positive mindset

13. I AM… STATEMENT

Create formal and positive affirmations about yourself – it’s ‘you on a page’

14. FOCUS

FOCUS-EXERCISE-
An exercise to clear your mind and become more productive (by simply staring at a black dot!)

15. ORGAN SENSES MEDITATION

A transfer of emotions from negative to positive. Ground yourself and get rid of the ‘chatter’.

16. ANCHORS

Increase effectiveness by creating easy-to-use triggers for desirable states

17. CIRCLE OF EXCELLENCE

Get ‘in the zone’ by harnessing the power of positive memories. Prepare for challenging situations and overcome any lack of confidence. It is applicable to any scenario you can think of. It is an excellent tool.

18. CALIBRATION

Improve awareness of what makes others tick by creating a ‘body language dictionary’ of their responses and behaviour. Exercises in creating Rapport with another and recognising Congruence. Think ‘BAGEL’ (Body posture, Accessing cues, Gestures, Eye movements and Language patterns).

19. REPRESENTATIONAL SYSTEMS

Our use of language reveals ‘how’ we process information. Identify this with a clever language pattern exercise.

20. SUBMODALITIES

Understand the ‘variables’ as to how we use our 5 ‘senses’

21. PORTRAY ‘METHOD’

Personal tools to come across as or present with confidence. This handy ‘METHOD’ will help you to perform with impact (Movement, Eyes, Tonality, Hands & feet, Originality and Deportment).

22. ONE SENTENCE PERSUASION

A very important weapon in the marketing arsenal. “People will do anything for People who encourage their dreams, justify their failures, allay their fears, confirm their suspicions and help them throw rocks at their enemies” – Blair Warren

23. LOGICAL LEVELS

An exercise to determine and ensure alignment of Mission, Identity, Beliefs, Values, Desires, Capability, Behaviour and Environment in yourself and/or others. Use as a diagnostic tool for any kind of problem involving people or use as a model of human motivation.

24. WELL FORMED GOALS

To succeed (and the way you measure success is up to YOU), you need Goals … and have absolute clarity. Know exactly what it is you want. This includes an exercise centred around the 8 criteria that make up the Well Formed Goal.

25. PERCEPTUAL POSITIONS

Use 4 specific perspectives (Own/Adversary/detached Observer/’System’) to find new ways to go forward or resolve past issues and/or conflicts

26. ‘DISNEY’ PROCESS

Boost creativity in business. See issues through the eyes of the Dreamer, Realist and Critic. Access and integrate different aspects of the creative process and find solutions to problems and/or new ways of doing things.

27. CHANGE PERSONAL HISTORY

Technique used to change current troubling/unwanted patterns of behaviour or responses by revisiting the root cause in the past and adding helpful ‘resources’ from the present thus lessening the negative influence an event may have over your current self – enabling you to ‘see old light through new windows’ and create better and/or more appropriate coping strategies.

28. DANCNG ‘SCORE’

An excellent problem-solving technique equating the process to a series of physical moves. Analyse the problem by looking at its Symptoms and Causes in order to create the desired Outcome by adding Resources which leads to the desired Effect for you going forward (‘SCORE’.)

29. RELEASING ENMESHMENT

Technique designed to deal with and break ‘co-dependency’ and other kinds of unwanted dependence on others or on harmful, addictive, unwanted or negative events, habits, behaviours or substances.

30. PLANNING FOR A FRESH START

Technique designed to help with moving on – freedom to do something new.

31. RESCRIPTING

‘Close the show and put a whole new show on the road’. Technique to take you from a negative to a positive mindset by ensuring that you have a “Winner” script.

As Brendon Burchard so elegantly puts it – “With the right daily mindset, focus and habits, you can shape an extraordinary quality of life and contribute at world class levels way beyond anyone’s expectations”

Or as we say – “FUN, STYLE and EXCELLENCE – Have Fun, do it with Style and be Excellent”