Happy New Year!
Welcome to the first 2019 Newsletter.

It's my first week back at work after a fantastic Christmas and New Year Break and I was walking along the clifftop locally at the weekend (photo above), doing our annual review of last year and our goal setting for next year and I was reminded of what a great year 2019 was both work wise and personally.

We managed to get a lot of time off in the amazing summer to enjoy the sun, build the new van, launch our first Album and do some really interesting and diverse work.

I worked with a lot of really interesting people last year,  including Fairways Care Ltd in Wales, running some NLP training, Plymouth Community Homes doing a range of things including training coaches and designing Negotiation Skills training, Fugro Geoservices on a Cultural Change project and Unlocking Potential on their Stand Out programme.

I've been invited to speak at the ANLP International Conference next Spring - I'm really excited and proud to be doing this and I'm already working on my 90 minute session.
 
2019 is already facing up to be the most exciting year for Evolution ever!

I'll have something really special to announce at the end of January, and my February and March are already absolutely rammed delivering some of the negotiation skills training we designed with Plymouth Community Homes last autumn as well as a lot of Communication Skills work with my old friends at
 

And some great news for the Spring - we've decided to run another NLP Business Practitioner course which will be the first one to include Interaction Engineering.

See below for more information.

I hope you have had a fantastic Christmas break yourself and are feeling ready for a successful 2019.

Warm regards,

Martin
Soft Skills Are Hard - But Really, Really Important!

I've heard the term 'soft skills' used in a derogatory fashion for many years in Management and they are often looked at as "something for other people (like HR) but not for me as an outcome-focused, results-driven Manager"

The reality is that the higher you are in an organisation the more you need 'soft' skills' as the results you desire, are more and more, delivered by people other than yourself.

Therefore, the ability to get the best out of your team becomes much more important than your ability to do the task your team do.


                                 

How To Deliver a Winning Presentation in a Muddy Field


We went to the Port Eliot Festival last year (already booked for 2019) and had a great time watching a mix of bands, discussions and presentations by a wide range of writers and performers. They definitely showed how to deliver a winning presentation in a muddy field and I'd like to share some of my reflections with you so you can take some learning from what I saw and apply them to your own presentations.
                                 


How To Avoid Falling Off The Top Step

How can you avoid falling off the top step?  What is "the top step"?

Did you ever learn to drive a car? If so, you would have gone through the four stages of development known as the Conscious Competence Model which was developed by Noel Burch in the 1970s.

You have to start from a place of unconscious incompetence - you don't know what you can't do.  I certainly didn't know I couldn't drive a car until I tried it.  This is the second stage of development - conscious incompetence, which became very obvious to me when I got behind the wheel.

After lots of lessons and practice I was, if I concentrated very hard, able to pass my driving test - the third stage known as conscious competence.

With more practice I reached the dizzying heights of step four - unconscious competence.  A place where I don't think about driving, I just do it.

The problem is that I, like most people have fallen off the top step and become unconsciously incompetent again - only in some areas,  I've got some bad habits like crossing my hands on the wheel which would mean I'd fail my competency test.

So, how do we stop falling off the top step?

Interaction Engineering and NLP


Businesses are basically a bunch of people doing stuff to work towards a common goal.

Interactions take place throughout the business and the effectiveness of these interactions is directly linked to the effectiveness of the business as a whole.

These interactions can be linked to Selling, Buying, Marketing, Leading, Presenting or Recruiting, in fact, they can be linked to every single activity that takes place.
  
 
As the process of doing business gets more and more challenging, the number of those interactions will go up, their importance will increase but it always feels as if the time available for them goes down. A quick meeting, a brief phone call or a couple of emails.
Yet each one of those interactions could be vitally important to your business.
If you want to improve your interactions, the first thing you should do is attend our But don't take my word for it, listen to some of the more than 600 people who have improved their interactions with the course and who have had life changing experiences on the course.

And then, book on the Spring course I am running this year which now starts  in February

Places are limited so follow the link , check out the course content and get in touch with us.

 
 I'd like to find out more. . .

I thought the course would be useful, but it has been better than I expected and I will be using the techniques in work situations.
Selina Curnow - Cheshire Fire Service

This has been one of the most enjoyable courses I have attended during my career. I can certainly say I have learnt more during these 6 months that will enable me to perform better than any of the traditional management courses I have been sent on.
Tracy Winser- Southams District Council
An excellent insight into the techniques of NLP. I have found the course incredibly useful both at work and at home.
Charlie Fox, Hartley Dental
Enlightening and re-defining. It changed my outlook on life professionally and personally in unexpected and amazing ways.
Stephanie Hurrell, Babcock International Ltd
Fantastic experience from start to finish, the only course I've not wanted to end. I can't believe how much it has helped me change.
Graeme Hall - BAE Systems
 
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