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We have an excellent appraisal system in our Employee Development Pack based on a pre-appraisal [...]

Here are some comments following the editorial on recycling in last week’s newsletter: -
1. John Illingworth Says:
I have never heard of recycling spectacles. Who takes the old ones? How do you practically do this – or do all opticians do this but not advertise the service?
2. Richard [...]

This is a self anchoring process that allows you to draw on resourceful memories to create a resourceful state. It was developed by John Grinder, and these instructions are drawn from the excellent NLP Field Guide Part I by Jules and Chris Collingwood.

Identify the external triggers for unresourceful state. These should be visual, [...]

I learned some years ago, and teach in presentation skills workshops, the importance of managing your environment. I like to get to a venue the night before, not only to ensure that I am there on time in the morning, but also to check and change the layout of the room. Many hotel [...]

I mentioned that one of the speakers at the recent CoachVille conference was Jack Canfield. Well, I am working through his most recent book, The Success Principles. It is 450 pages, containing 64 timeless principles used by successful men and women throughout history, so I am taking it slowly.
Principle 2 is [...]

I made a mistake. I read a book on the flight from New Orleans to Newark and I did not bother to get out a highlighter pen. As a result, I am missing my normal notes that go into a book review, so I am operating much more from memory. For many [...]

One of the most useful tools I have come across is Robert Dilts’ Logical Levels model. We use it in all sorts of situations. Here is an example of how it can be used to structure, or analyse, social conversation. It could be used in a networking or any other social situation. [...]

We are pleased to announce that Brefi Group founder Richard Winfield has been invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. The full name is the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Established in 1754, the RSA is an independent, non-aligned, multi-disciplinary registered charity with over 20,000 [...]

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The most important stage is to decide exactly what you want to communicate. The second thing is probably then going to be to reduce your aspirations. The secret of successful communication is to limit it to a few things and to deal with them properly. This means probably three – certainly no [...]