Hi, here’s your July 2010 newsletter from UK NLP trainer Michael Beale of PPI… bringing you valuable hints, tips and information on business NLP, coaching, sales, networking and attraction.
Contents - what’s in your newsletter this month:
• Kaplan’s Guide to Passing Exams
• Beale’s Podcast
• The Benefits of 1:1 NLP Training
• July NLP Taster and Future Dates
• The NLP Leadership - Conference Contributors Wanted
• A Useful Guide to NLP for Coaches Extract 4
• NLP Definition of the Month - TOTE
• And Finally…
Kaplan’s Guide to Passing Exams
I’m always pleased when previous delegates get back in touch to let me know what they’re doing. And it’s a special pleasure when they’ve done something really good. Stuart Pedley-Smith has just published The E Word: Kaplan’s Guide to Passing Exams, which is, as the title suggests, about passing exams successfully.
Stuart’s job is a senior lecturer at Kaplan Financial. His pay is directly related to the success of his students in passing exams. He knows his stuff. While it’s essential reading both for anyone who needs to pass an exam and anyone coaching others to pass, his book is also about learning and success – and you’ll find the same approaches are useful in many aspects of life.
The contents, which are presented in an easy to speed read format include:
• How examinations work
• What’s stopping you from passing
• Motivation and attitude
• Learning
• Learning smarter
• Memory
• Techniques to improve exam performance
He suggests that the best strategy for most exams is to start with a simple backward time plan:
• End Result - Pass the exam
• How - Pass the exam questions
• How - Practice key questions in the examinable topic areas in exam conditions
• How - Identify the important examinable topic areas
• How - Analyse past questions, read examiners’ guidelines, ask experts
To me, the bottom line is that someone with a great exam strategy and a great mental attitude, together with some proven memory techniques, will not only get much better results for a given amount of work, but they’ll learn more as the approaches tie into how we naturally learn.
I suggest the approach applies to many aspects of life!
And whether we like it or not, exams can be a fast track to great jobs and great learning opportunities.
While on the topic on education and learning, I also recommend Ken Robinson’s TED talk on ‘bring on the educational revolution.’ Ken’s approach is that current education is based on the factory or industrial way of life, which now only applies to a minority of jobs – and it doesn’t prepare the next generation for many of the challenges that they will face.
Thought provoking...
Beale’s Podcast
We are having a break from new podcasts this month, but you can access each of the 64 previous ones from our free NLP Podcast feed. We have some excellent guests lined up for the future, so keep coming back to visit!
The Benefits of 1:1 NLP training
When I started NLP training I assumed that large NLP trainings were best, and it was with a certain trepidation that six years I agreed to run a 1:1 training with a client from the Middle East who couldn’t make our open training dates. I was genuinely delighted and surprised how much we both enjoyed it and the value he claimed to get from it.
Since then I’ve always run three or four 1:1s a year and so far they’ve always been really good, particularly for senior people who may not want to share their direction and vision with people they don’t know yet. The feedback I get is that they’re considered a luxury.
In addition there is no way you cannot take part! Thus, you are guaranteed to move forward on what you want to explore.
There are benefits from all training formats, but if you want to explore something that’s really important to you consider our 1:1 NLP training.
July NLP Taster (Worth £120) and Future Dates
We have our next NLP taster evening on 20th July 2010 in Milton Keynes. They’re free and fun. Find out more by clicking this link: NLP Taster Evenings. You can register for your place at Seminar registrations.
The NLP Leadership Conference - Contributors wanted
I’ve teamed up with US colleague Ryan Nagy and we’re developing our own NLP Leadership Conference for launch late summer. Contributors receive a 50% of any sales through their affiliate code. I think it’s a great model for purchasers and contributors as well.
If you have any genuinely useful NLP or NLP related material that could be included, and you would like to be a contributor, please call me. You can see a very draft mock up of the home page from: NLP Leadership Conference.
You can find draft notes to contributors on the following Google Document: The NLP Leadership Conference 2010 Invitation to Contribute
A Useful Guide to NLP for Coaches - Extract 4
You can read the fourth extract from our eBook here: A useful Guide to NLP for coaches Extract 4.
This discusses the framework I use with my NLP training and coaching. I describe it as ‘the dials and levers to effect learning and change’, and give some suggestions as to the sequence to use them.
Feel free to comment if you’re a member of our forum. And it’s free to join if you’re not!
You can buy the book from the following link: A Useful Guide to NLP for Coaches.
We will shortly be bringing out a DVD companion to our ‘A Useful Guide to Coaches’ ebook. You can see and listen to a short new extract here: NLP Coaching Video.
NLP Definition of the Month: TOTE
Developed by Miller, Galanter and Pibram, the acronym TOTE stands for the sequence Test-Operate-Test-Exit, which describes the basic feedback loop used to guide all behaviour.
I’ve found that establishing specifically what people do now to achieve the results they currently get is an almost foolproof way of helping them identify how they can improve. I use a mixture of TOTE and Meta model questions.
You can see more definitions by following this link: NLP Training: Glossary A-Z.
And Finally...
Think about which of these two options will bring the very best results for you tomorrow.
• Having razor-like and passionate focus on what you want to achieve, taking only those actions that will move you towards your goal;
• Relaxing, softening and accepting that whatever happens will be exactly what’s needed for you to achieve what’s really important to you
And if these don’t work, what will bring you the very best results tomorrow?
Take care and much success,
Michael, 20th June 2010
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