7 December - The RISE Model: accessing resources in morally challenging situations with Damian Hamill

"Evil prospers when good men do nothing." ~ John Philpot Curran

How do you stay resourceful in a morally challenging situation? How do you access the resources to make the right decision? If you have ever faced a morally difficult or challenging situation, or you coach people who are facing such challenges, this session will give you a practical model for accessing resources...

Tonight's meeting is presented by Damian Hamill, Director of Training for Watt Works Consulting. Damian’s background includes a number of years working in the City of London advising PLCs at Board level on communication issues. He is a Master Practitioner and Certified Trainer of NLP, a hypnotherapist certified at an advanced level and an INLPTA certified NLP Coach Practitioner. He is a member of a number of professional hypnotherapy bodies as well as the Professional Guild of NLP.

2nd November 2011- Perform at Your Peak in a Week! with Una Doyle

In these challenging times what is most important to you in your career or business? Is it to:

• Keep top performers longer?
• Increase productivity and profits?
• Reduce politics, backbiting and unnecessary stress and conflict?
• Increase repeat business and referrals from customers?
• Reduce the risk of recruiting unsuitable staff?

“Challenge Una...” 

Una Doyle, an international award-winning speaker (www.UnaDoyle.com) will deliver her keynote “Perform at Your Peak in a Week!” Then, in the second half of the session, challenge Una with any question about peak performance and she will coach you on the spot on how to apply what you have discovered to your situation as well as help you to overcome any barriers to implementation. These interactive real life examples increase each attendee’s success rate in achieving peak performance. After all, it’s not what you learn but what you apply that will make the difference… True?

5 October 2010 - Go Beyond Goals! with Kate Trafford

Have you ever set a goal (or even a “well-formed outcome”!) and not gone on to achieve the results you wanted?  Do you sometimes feel like you are working against yourself, taking one step forward and two steps back?  Are you tired of the struggle and ready to experience greater ease and fun in your life, whilst achieving at a significantly higher level?!  If so, come along to our October meeting which sees the welcome return of Kate Trafford of Go Beyond NLP, as she shares with us how to “Go Beyond Goals!”

Kate is a Certified Trainer of NLP and of Advanced Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy, and has been supporting business clients for over 10 years.  She is passionate about sharing the secrets of effortless success, and in this enjoyable and interactive session, you will discover;

• Why traditional goal-setting doesn’t always work – and what does.

• How to create a compelling vision for your future success, and how to work with others to achieve the same for your team and organisation as a whole.

• The crucial role played by your emotions – what they are really telling you and why they’re important.

• How to make progress and build momentum even when uncertainty about the future undermines traditional planning processes.

You will even have the opportunity (if you choose) to experience a deeply relaxing and inspiring guided visualisation, and set yourself up for effortless success and authentic alignment, so that you can bring your true qualities and unique talents to work every day!

7 September - Volitional Thinking with Roger Longden

Your take aways will be an awareness of common Reactive Behaviours and a new coaching construct which will help you enable your clients to understand why they react the way they do and areas of skill you can work with them on to enhance their Self Management / Emotional Intelligence.

About Roger Longden and Volition Performance

Through the challenging and varied roles he has completed thus far, Roger Longden has demonstrated himself to be an “Outcome Creator” in all aspects - both at a business and personal level.  Through his twelve years with Fujitsu - rising from order administration to his final role of working with the board as an L&D specialist, Roger established a reputation for the delivery of key business outcomes.  This track record was established in areas such as Sales, Service and Operations.  While at Fujitsu, Roger also trained as a Coach and gained his certification from Henley Business School which he found to be a transformational experience and something of a watershed.

Since leaving Fujitsu in Dec 09, Roger established Volition.  Through Volition he has been enabling SME’s to gain benefit from corporate-standard leadership development.  He has also been developing Volitional Thinking - a construct which can be used in various ways to support the development of our clients Emotional Intelligence.

Roger says, "I have a passion and a talent for bringing out the best in those who I work with.  This has been a common theme all the way through my working life - right from the children in care I worked with over 20 years ago through to Corporate roles I have since undertaken.  It is also reflected in my voluntary work as a Mentor for the Princes Trust.  In addition, I am also a founding member of the Mission Malawi fundraising project (www.missionmalawi.co.uk), President of Northern ReBound Squash Club and a member of Agecroft Rowing Club."

3 August 2010 - D'Main Authority - Beyond pacing & leading? with Haider Imam

Perhaps you, like me, have quoted 'pace then lead!' to other people almost like a mantra, when training them to get greater results?

 

But how many of us can, hand on heart, get people and groups to lean forward exactly as we lean forward? Blink as we blink? Breathe at the rate we breathe? In other words, it's not a skill that everybody can do, effortlessly, yet...

 

That potentially means that  one of the cornerstones of your work as a coach, therapist or influencer is broken. Meaning lost  

time, status, credibility, money and results. Or worse...

 

In this must-attend workshop (responsible for over half a million in extra sales for well-known clients), NLP Trainer, Influence coach and 

Training consultant, Haider 'Hedda' Imam will introduce you to a model that goes beyond traditional pacing & leading, using only words and ideas.

 

Synthesised from NLP, Pick Up Artist techniques and Social Psychology, learning D'Main Authority will give you authority over  

the domain of the individual or group you're facing. Meaning 'results squared'. 

 

Haider Imam 

 was UK Sales Trainer if the Year 2007. He is the Founder of So in Flow, an NLP Master Practitioner & Trainer. His area of expertise is 'Influence' - getting what you want while creating value for others. 

 

He is the author of '47 Moments of Inspiration' (one for each working week of the year).

6 July - The Ultimate Business Balance with Richard Nugent

In this follow up to last year’s hugely popular session Richard will help you to create a business that is outstandingly successful and hugely enjoyable to be part of.  Combining the best research in the fields of leadership, engagement and personal development into five practical and easily applicable elements.

This session will be equally useful to entrepreneurs and those who are still in employment!

Richard Nugent is a transformational leadership coach who helps CEOs, professional sportsmen and entrepreneurs create the impossible.

1 June 2010 - Trains of Thought with Bev Holden and Kate Hargreaves

“Many highly intelligent people are bad thinkers. Intelligence is like the horsepower of a car. A powerful car has the potential to drive at speed, but you can have a powerful car and drive it badly. Thinking is the driving skill with which each individual drives his or her intelligence.” - Edward De Bono

In the hurly burly of everyday life one of our biggest challenges can be finding the time and the space to think clearly. If thinking time is so scarce then it’s all the more important to get every ounce of value out of the thinking time that we do have available to us. Trains of Thought will show you how to create the perfect “thinking space” anytime and anywhere, blocking out distractions and encouraging quality of thinking and clarity of thought in very practical ways.

Kate Hargreaves and Bev Holden are the Clear Thinking Partnership. They’ve been a successful partnership for many years both in the corporate environment and more recently in their own business venture. Their practical experience in the retail and service sectors, leading a wide range of teams to achieve great results, combined with their technical expertise in people development has equipped them to help others to develop their people for success. Changing the way people think is at the heart of Bev & Kate’s work with organisations, teams and individuals.

4 May 2010 - NLP, the Millionaire Mindset and YOU... with Gary Plunkett

You’ve probably heard that the rich think differently, right? But they only have 24 hours in a day, so how is it that just ‘thinking’ differently can make so much of a difference to their results?

Well if that thinking leads to action, every hour of every day of every week of every month of every year then that difference gets applied a thousand-fold or more, so just fully consider right now what fantastic results would you want to happen in your life, if you were able to choose before or during this powerful NLP evening?

 

10 years ago I was just like you, busy 60-80 hours per week working for others and making money for them. No time for me, no time for partners, relationships, family, no time to relax, and my health failing with asthma and allergies. Then I discovered NLP and I realised, yes, I was climbing the corporate ladder, but that ladder was up against the wrong wall! I realised I had to find a better way...and I did!

 

Now I work when I want to. I have holidays when I want to, I spend time on my hobbies when I want to. Sometimes I will have a week off, and sometimes I will choose a 60-80 week living my dream and working my passion for helping people to fulfil their full potential and maximise their chances of success.

 

What I mostly specialise in these days is helping open-minded managers and owners to grow their businesses fast, typically to double or treble businesses in 2-3 years or less, from one-man-bands to Multi-Millionaires, to live their dreams and spend time doing what they want, when they want.

 

I’ve worked with managers and owners to go from £5k income per month to £10k per month in around 2 weeks, and a bigger firm grow from £1m to £3m in just two years. Now whether you run your own show yet or you just want to succeed faster I will be giving away to you many, many ideas this evening, allowing you to choose what step by step approach you will take to build the life that you want?

 

And what I’ve noticed is the number One quality for success is just...an open mind. Do you Really have an open mind or do you just pretend you do? Are you really a sceptic or do you disbelieve everything until you have 100% concrete evidence, in which case I’m guessing it’s not easy to move forward for you?

 

Tonight you will learn what NLP techniques I use and when I use them, but more importantly you will learn how to change your own mindset and results. You will learn about risk-reward and upside-downside thinking. If you choose to join in then you will achieve change and take steps to move forward, if you dissociate and merely watch, you will gain only information, and as Robert Dilts said, ‘knowledge is only a rumour until it is in the muscle’.

 

So the maximum downside is you have to get yourself to Manchester City Centre to meet like-minded people and have a great evening. The maximum upside is.....up to your imagination...how big can you dream?

 

Gary Plunkett is a Fast Business Growth expert, Professional Speaker and Business Coach. He is a 

Certified Trainer of NLP, Full Member of the Professional Speakers Association, and is APMP and Prince2 qualified. 

Gary is also a Certified Trainer of Hawaiian Huna Higher Consciousness and Celtic Shamanism. 

 

13 April 2010 - Build Your Strengths-Based Strategic Plan in Just 2 Hours! with Andy Smith

It's a commonplace in business and personal development circles that "failing to plan is planning to fail". We all know that if we don't develop our strategy for the future, we are at the mercy of events and outside forces. But do you actually put this belief into practice?

Have you put off developing a strategic plan for your life or your business because you're too busy? Or perhaps (you may admit to yourself, if no-one else) because it's too scary? A lot of people do.

In large organisations it can be even worse. Has planning in your organisation become a ritual in which people go through the motions but never really engage with it? Is the end product a 'strategic plan' several hundred pages long that no-one actually reads?

In this session, Andy Smith will guide you through the SOAR model (Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, Results). This is a more engaging alternative to the traditional SWOT model (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats).  SOAR avoids the dangers of 'analysis paralysis' and demoralisation - instead it promotes engagement, buy-in and energy.

By the end of the evening, if you choose, you will have created a high-level strategic plan for yourself, your team, or your business. This could be your most valuable investment of two hours ever!

So - be prepared to do some serious work and get some serious benefits! Remember there is a 20% discount when you book 5 places, so why not bring your whole team?

Andy Smith is an Appreciative Inquiry facilitator, NLP trainer, and organiser of the Manchester Business NLP and Emotional Intelligence Group.

2 March 2010 - 21 Ways to Kick Start your Sales and Marketing with Paul Parish

This session could dramatically increase your marketing activities and how much you sell to your customers. Not only will Paul share with you valuable and proven techniques, he will also look at what mindset will assist you in maximizing their effectiveness. Having run sales courses for non-sales people, cold calling for the tele-phobic and sales strategy for senior sales teams, Paul has useful tools and techniques to share with every business owner.

About Paul Parish

Paul has a passion for fresh, innovative and most of all effective training techniques and uses them in all his sessions and workshops. As a certified NLP Practitioner Paul’s training combines practical methods and ideas with the inspiration and motivation for delegates to start using them immediately. Paul has recently become a Fellow of the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management.

With a sales career spanning three decades in financial services and recruitment and with clients ranging from international sporting personalities to household names such as Metrorod, Pareto Law, Sainsbury’s and Phones4U and having helped over 10,000 business owners and salespeople realise their full potential, Paul is ideally skilled in helping you or your sales team to gain the necessary skills and energy to hit all your sales targets.

2 February 2010 - Going for Gold with Jimmy Petruzzi

In sport the difference between being the worlds best and 50th can be as little as 1%.
 
The aim of this session is to integrate NLP and Elite Sports principles helping us be on top form in life and business, exploring the relationship between how we think, how we communicate, our patterns of behaviour and our emotions.
 
Outcomes for this seminar:

1. How to motivate yourself and others
2. How to set achievable goals
3. How to build rapport with anyone
4. How to feel how you want to feel at any time

About the Presenter

Jimmy Petruzzi has worked in many countries with successful people including Premiership Football teams, Top Athletes, Politicians, Businesses, Entrepreneurs, TV Celebrities, Teachers and Schools, helping them to achieve peak performance in all aspects of their lives using NLP.
 
He is also dedicated to helping disadvantaged children through a variety of programmes across four continents. In 2006 Jimmy received the highly commended Coaching Award for International & Domestic work.
 
Jimmy Petruzzi's background is in sports performance and communication. He has studied Sports Science and Sports Psychology in Australia, America and the UK. As well as being a highly qualified sports coach in several sports disciplines he has studied NLP and Hypnotherapy since 1993, using the techniques as an athlete and coach to great success. He is an internationally renowned performance and conditioning coach specializing in the areas of physical and mental preparation.

Wish you hadn't missed this session?

You can get access to the online video of the session (100 minutes in total) for only

£4.97  

1 December - The End of More? with Aboodi Shabi

It’s not hard to see that we are facing great uncertainty in the world today – economic crises, environmental concerns, social and political challenges, all of which require our attention.

In this provocative conversation, transformational coach and speaker, Aboodi Shabi will be exploring the idea that we need to face the end of more – the paradigm we have been living in for the last 500 years that more is always good, and always achievable. Rather than merely focussing on more of the same, maybe it’s time to explore a future with less, and how to meet that possible future with ambition and peace rather than fear and scarcity.

Join us if you are a coach working with others and discover an entirely different kind of coaching conversation; business leaders will also find plenty in this evening to provoke and stimulate your thinking about new ways to move forward in the current climate.

Aboodi Shabi is one of the UK's most senior coaches, and a pioneer and leader in the UK and European Coaching community.

He has worked in the field of personal development for over twenty years, and in coaching since 1996. In that time, he has worked with hundreds of coaches across the world.

Aboodi runs, and teaches in, workshops and seminars for coaches across Europe and North America, as well as working with leaders, and presenting on leadership issues and presence across Europe.

He is currently European Director of Coaching and Training for Newfield Network. He is also an invited facilitator on mastery in coaching for various European coaching schools, as well as being a regular speaker on the coaching conference circuit across Europe.

Testimonials:

“Aboodi is a  man forged by the collision of different cultural worlds, in such a way that he can speak from compassion and firmness so as to greatly serve others.” - Julio Olalla – Master Coach and founder of Newfield Network.

"You are very knowledgeable about coaching in my opinion and you express your knowledge with clarity and humility. You are great at holding the attention of your audience too. That seems a lot like emotional intelligence, the bedrock on which all good coaches must stand." - Sir John Whitmore – author of “Coaching for Performance”



3 November - Me, Inc: Presenting Yourself As A Memorable Brand with Jenny Flintoft

What words spring to mind when you think of Tesco? Nike? HBOS? 

Equally, what words are conjured up for you when you think of Bill Gates? David Beckham? Margaret Thatcher?

As it is important for organisations and businesses to have a strong, recognised, brand, so it is for us as individuals. Whether we run our own businesses, or work within an organisation, we're constantly leaving a memory trace for other people through our interactions with them. Every conversation; gesture; action; communication gets added together to form a consistent picture of who you are and what you represent.

Are you creating the right brand image for people to engage with you and trust you? Do you set the example to follow? Having a strong personal brand can differentiate you from the others and can absolutely contribute to your personal success. In this interactive session, we’ll explore:

• The key characteristics of a strong personal brand
• What specific strengths, qualities and talents contribute to your own personal brand
• Simple, practical ways you can “advertise and market” your brand every day – in a way that is personally authentic
• What pressures your brand could come under – and how to withstand these pressures so your brand stays consistent and firm

Jenny Flintoft works with people who are committed to raising their game and making a positive difference within their own lives and the businesses in which they work. She has carved out an inspiring track record of working with and developing hundreds of leaders, coaches and individuals across the world and is consistently described as dynamic, passionate, practical, challenging, supportive......and as "human caffeine!" Always striving to be an exceptional role model in her consultancy, coaching and facilitation, it is Jenny's personal quest to inspire and encourage others in all their encounters with her and to enable them to feel fired up, energised and purposeful in the work they do.

Making Better Decisions with NLP with Andy Smith - October 2009

How good are your decisions? Society presents us with an ever-increasing array of choices that would have made our ancestors' heads spin - who to date, whether to take that job, which car to buy, should I set up in business on my own...?

Are you consistently surprised and delighted by how well your decisions turn out, or do you sometimes end up disappointed (and maybe thousands of pounds out of pocket) because you missed something? NLP can help!

If you are NLP trained, you probably know already about the importance of clarifying your values and checking the 'ecology' of your decisions - so the material in this evening's session will be going beyond the obvious.

Come to this evening workshop and try out some strategies for making better decisions:

• The most important pattern for making consistently good decisions
• How to get beyond 'decision trances' that filter out important information
• The dangers of 'groupthink', and how to avoid it
• How to involve your unconscious mind for emotionally intelligent decision-making

This evening really could change your life!

Andy Smith is an emotional intelligence coach, ANLP-accredited NLP trainer and author of Achieve Your Goals: Strategies To Transform Your Life (Dorling Kindersley 2006). He is the organiser of the Manchester Business NLP and Emotional Intelligence Group.

1 September - Enhancing Emotional Intelligence with the DISC Profile with Robin Hills

DISC (dominance, influence, steadiness and compliance) is the world's most widely used work-based inventory offered by a number of different companies (eg Thomas PPA, Discus, Insights, etc.). DISC is a useful tool in NLP and emotional intelligence as it can be used to educate people in self awareness and effective communication in order to change patterns of mental and emotional behaviour. DISC has been awarded a four star rating by the British Psychological Society for criterion-related validity and overall reliabilty, which is the highest rating for a behavioural assessment instrument.

This interactive session will look at how DISC works in interpersonal communication from an emotional intelligence perspective. Whether you are new to DISC or have many years' experience of using this tool, the session will be of interest offering new insights into its use and application within the area of emotional intelligence.

When you book your place, you will have the opportunity to complete a Thomas Personal Profile Analysis DISC behavioural assessment at no charge. These usually retail at around £150. This will give you a more in depth understanding of DISC from a personal level. The results will be confidential, and will be made available to you when you attend on 1 September.

About Robin Hills

Robin Hills runs a company, EI4Change, specialising in emotional intelligence tools for use within the work environment. An Advanced DISC practitioner, he has over 25 years' commercial and management experience applying personality assessments across a broad range of pragmatic business applications. Recently, he has worked on correlating and mapping DISC into the Goleman emotional intelligence framework giving new perpectives into how both can be applied within business.

4 August 2009 - "Who Are You, Really?" with Richard Nugent (archived)

Can you answer the following question without using your name?

Who are you?

Join Richard Nugent for a unique exploration of identity. By overlaying neurological levels with six human needs, Richard has created a remarkable tool to explore and draw from even more of your unique resources.

It's a great tool for coaching clients too.

Richard is a speaker, facilitator and coach for Kaizen Training.