Leadership: how to develop a growth mindset at work
Leading in an unpredictable working environment requires a growth mindset. Here are five key tips to help change your thinking and develop this. Today’s volatile economic and political environment makes workplaces especially challenging. Executives who approach this with the right frame of mind will ensure their own and their organisation’s success. Previous research suggests that […]
A new way of coaching: how to reset your coachee’s operating system
In order to facilitate real, lasting change, executive coaches need to understand what drives behaviour and create the right conditions for learning to occur. Executive coaching is no longer enough in today’s challenging, fast paced working environment. Issues like the threat of AI, economic volatility, overwhelming workloads, and gender divides means the workforce continually […]
How Freelancing Introverts Can Find Connection
The work of a freelancer is exciting and dynamic; you don’t know what the day is going to look like, and, most of the time, you don’t know what the weekly or monthly paycheck is going to look like, either (though this can certainly not be exciting. I feel fortunate to experience the best of both […]
7 Ways To Cultivate Innovation In the Workplace
Implementing organizational innovation can seem like an arduous process. In a fast paced work environment, expediency often takes precedence over restructuring. But in a world that’s growing ever more competitive, innovation is a must. Finding a fresh approach can strengthen your workplace culture, ensure the quality of your products, and ultimately lead to greater profits. […]
Learner engagement: how to ensure your learning and development programmes are not a gamble
Some organisations view learning and development programmes as an expensive gamble. To remove the element of chance, we first need to lay foundations for employees to actively engage with learning. What do you remember from your last business training session? If you’re drawing a blank (or can only recall the delicious chocolate biscuits that were […]
Sentenced to life-long learning – and what a great thing it is
Life-long learning doesn’t just happen – time needs to be carved out and motivation needs to be sustained. Have you got what it takes? A life sentence might sound pretty onerous and negative. But so can the notion of “learning for life”. It’s something that we may pay lip service to but do we actually do […]
The Name of the Game
As you might have guessed, this insight has been inspired by ABBA. I have unashamedly loved ABBA since I was 5. Even when I was enough of a Rock Chick for Bruce Dickinson to ask me to be in one of his videos (long, but true, story), I still loved ABBA. I have enjoyed watching […]
How to Manage an Under-performing Employee
Every successful manager needs to learn how to deal with underperforming employees at some point in their career. Unfortunately, some of them will act emotionally and create an even bigger issue. Decreased productivity will negatively affect the growth of the company and HR professionals should do everything in their power to prevent it. There are […]
Seeing the Problem
Imagine the scene, the trainer is opening a training session for L&D professionals and explaining what to do if the fire alarm goes off. Trainer: “The fire exit is there” (points to the door). Trainer: “If the fire alarm goes off, head through the door and go that way“ (points left).Trainer: “You’ll see an archway, so head […]
How To Bring Positive Psychology To Your Workplace
Developing a healthy work environment is one of the most important responsibilities of any business manager or professional concerned about their future. Still, many don’t know where to begin when it comes to bringing positive psychology to their workplaces, and struggle with getting into a healthy mood that can make them more productive. Luckily for […]
Leadership: how to create a learning culture from the top down
A learning culture can only really exist when it’s authentic and when leaders and senior managers set the tone. Let’s get one thing straight – a company’s culture cannot be manufactured. Saying that you want your culture to be a certain way doesn’t make it a reality, which is why when I hear companies saying […]
Are you ready for industry 4.0 and learning through technological change?
Technology is moving fast, which means its more important than ever before to upskill your team and ensure your business is ready for industry 4.0. We’re currently in a period of rapid technological and social change, where artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics and automation are fast becoming cornerstones of the new working environment. In manufacturing, […]
Why building a learning culture should start from the bottom up
Today’s ‘always on’ digital environment presents more opportunities than ever before for organisations to involve their employees in facilitating change in their learning culture. Traditionally, developing a learning culture would be treated like any other boardroom project – pushed down from the top with everything delivered as part of a formal framework with clear boundaries. […]
Building your psyche for financial success
Your personality carries over into the way you think and everything that you do — especially finances. If you’re on the entrepeneur journey and need to be sure that you’re earning profits and growing, it pays to get your spending habits in check. The more that you know about your psyche, the easier it’ll be […]
My expectations are too high. How do I lower them?
A client at the iNLP Center said the following (and I got permission to post this): I’m a big dreamer. I always imagine myself being very successful if I take a certain path but I when I fail I get very disappointed when I don’t meet those exceptions. How can I lower my expectations? Here’s how […]
What is learning culture and can we change it?
What defines culture is the visible behaviours that occur within an organisation. Many organisations claim to have a ‘learning culture’, but there’s often a gap between what they want to happen and how people conduct themselves day-to-day. Some organisations seem to be more amenable to their team members developing their skills than others. Despite […]
Leadership: how can we solve problems so everyone wins?
Good leadership isn’t about imposing your worldview on those you manage; often it’s about being able to resolve conflict effectively. Here are some tips for more positive problem solving to ensure everyone feels like a winner. When there’s a problem that needs solving in a working environment, the temptation is for people to pick a […]
L&D strategy: whose responsibility is learning anyway?
Historically, the responsibility of workplace learning fell solely on the shoulders of the L&D department, but this is no longer the case. We now know that creating a culture of learning across a whole organisation is a key part to any successful learning strategy. A learning culture is just that, a culture, which will take […]
Stuck on a Goal? Here’s How to Get Aligned
I interviewed one of our life coaching students, Heather, about what she learned in the course and how she is applying her NLP and coaching skills from the iNLP Center. She found a great way to integrate goal-setting with mind maps. Here’s what she reported. Thanks, Heather! I’ve had this great idea for a small business […]
Bringing success home
In a profound way England’s success at the 2018 World Cup is all the greater for them not having come home with the trophy. Had they done so all the commentary would have been about the win; endless TV appearances showing off the trophy, managing the weight of expectations in respect of the next tournament, […]
