Personal Development

Executives are facing growing challenges from trends such as globalisation, the online era, and the fragmentation of the business world. Compared to the vertically integrated corporations that most of us were familiar with growing up, we now have a faster-paced business world in which it can be difficult to make decisions, where competing pressures are many, and where work-life balance is under pressure.

We offer personal development and coaching sessions to help you rediscover the real YOU and make the changes you want in your life. We use two cutting edge approaches: Neuro-Linguistic Programming (commonly known as NLP) and LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™. We provide both one to one sessions and open "Personal Discovery" days using LEGO SERIOUS PLAY.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming

NLP is the emerging science of how individuals get what they want, and can achieve the excellence they strive for in their chosen field. Many of the principles of NLP can be adapted to the business world, and targeted both at a group and individual level. NLP provides tools that can enable better communication, promote self-awareness, and harness hidden resources.

NLP also enables the behaviours of success to be codified and therefore repeatable if we want them to be.

Coaching using NLP can be particularly powerful, using tools and techniques that help you to get to grips with your values and purpose, and create well-formed outcomes that will encourage you to work towards the success you want. NLP can help you to harness your inner resources for use whan you need them, as well as to overcome limiting beliefs that you or your team may hold.

NLP also provides a host of insights into the way we communicate, that will enhance your self-awareness and your ability to get the best out of yourself and others.

LEGO SERIOUS PLAY

Real-Time Identity for You

In this application of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY, you will explore the multiple facets of your identity and learn to bring the best of yourself into your work and your personal life.

Some people worry that building models allows others to "psycho-analyse" them. It does not. The meaning you give to your models is the only meaning they will have in the context of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY. As a coach, I do not seek to interpret your models - their meaning is for you, and only you, to define and discover.

For instance, the model below is one of mine. Every brick means something to me, and the model helped me to clarify my own purpose and direction. Taken out of context however, I wonder how much sense you can make of it!

LEGO, LEGO SERIOUS PLAY, IMAGINOPEDIA, and the knob and the brick configurations are trademarks of the LEGO Group and are used here with special permission.

Practical Arrangements

The number of coaching sessions depends on your goals. We would typically recommend a minimum of 5 or 6 one-hour sessions. Coaching using LEGO SERIOUS PLAY can also be carried out in a single half-day, together with a shorter follow-up session.

Your coach will be Jim Paton, a certified Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming by PPD Learning in London, one of the world's leading NLP training schools, accredited by John Grinder, co-founder of NLP. As a licensed LEGO SERIOUS PLAY facilitator, Jim has also been trained by the LEGO Group in the application of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY to personal development.

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