If Diets Work

Posted by David | Posted in Latest News | Posted on 28-01-2010

If diets work, why is it that so many of us are continually on one? When a person goes on a diet, they are, by definition cutting back, denying themselves, reducing their intake. Does this make you want your favourites less? We are working with a system, defined over plus of 160,000 years to deal [...]

Telling your boss what you think of them is good for your health

Posted by David | Posted in Latest News | Posted on 27-01-2010

In pursuit of happy, healthy, stress-free employees, psychologists urge companies to allow employees to rate their managers’ ability to manage.
The research, co-funded by the Health & Safety Executive, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and Investors in People, is presented today 13th January 2010, by Emma Donaldson-Feilder, from Affinity Health at Work, at the [...]

People not Targets – ILM news

Posted by David | Posted in Latest News | Posted on 26-01-2010

A target-driven approach to leadership is less likely to result in a strong performance compared to a more people-centred one, research has highlighted, says The Work Foundation.
By Nick Howard
The study saw managers at six high-profile employers, including Tesco and BAE Systems, interviewed about their leadership philosophies and practices over a two-year period.
It emerged [...]

NLP and Advertising

Posted by David | Posted in Latest News | Posted on 19-01-2010

Much of the field of NLP is focused on how we all see the world in our own very specific way – our model or map of the world. For advertising to fully have the impact a company or individual desires, it needs to appeal to a wide audience. In many instances, the text will [...]

Fear management and the Quantum NLP perspective

Posted by Matt Peacock | Posted in Latest News | Posted on 17-01-2010

We were forwarded a link to a Times On Line publication today entitled ‘How to forget fear’. You can click here, as we have posted the full article on our site. Having read through the article, it highlights the neuroscience studies around chemical intervention on phobic type memories. The article implies that this is [...]

NLP (and other subjects) book reviews

Posted by David | Posted in Book Reviews | Posted on 14-01-2010

We have chosen to review some of these books for a few reasons. Firstly, many people will tend to review the ‘classic’ NLP books and we thought this might be different, in that we will focus on the classics as well as new examples of NLP literature, and some books that are not specifically NLP, [...]

The Sourcebook of Magic: A Comprehensive Guide to NLP Change Patterns

Posted by David | Posted in Book Reviews | Posted on 14-01-2010

ISBN-10: 1904424252
ISBN-13: 978-1904424253
We have both the first and second editions of this book in the Quantum library. The reference materials are well written and the processes well described, and it is great to find most of the patterns of NLP in one place. You could look at the title and say that it can’t be [...]

Persuasion Skills Black Book: Practical NLP Language Patterns for Getting The Response You Want by Rintu Basu

Posted by David | Posted in Book Reviews | Posted on 14-01-2010

ISBN-10: 190543054X
ISBN-13: 978-1905430543
This is one of our contentious reviews. We saw this book and thought that it may an example of one of the things that give NLP a bad name, with its focus on ‘getting what you want’. We weren’t disappointed, however, for us the book still has merit.
The book is, on the whole, [...]

Unmasking the Face: A Guide to Recognizing Emotions from Facial Expressions by Paul Ekman

Posted by David | Posted in Book Reviews | Posted on 14-01-2010

ISBN-10: 1883536367
ISBN-13: 978-1883536367
This book was reviewed because of the parity to Sensory Acuity, and that this is a skill required of an NLP practitioner at all levels. We are also intrigued by the number of scientific studies that are attributing more credibility to the unconscious mind and the role it plays in everyday life. The [...]

Turtles All The Way Down: Prerequisites to personal genius by Judith DeLozier and John Grinder

Posted by David | Posted in Book Reviews | Posted on 14-01-2010

ISBN-10: 1555520227
ISBN-13: 978-1555520229
This is was one of those books that requires the reader to dedicate a bit of time and focus to it. Having met Judy on one of the weekends held at the Northern School of NLP I was prepared to make that investment. The writing style helped me stay on track in that, [...]