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Dear Readers,
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NLP tips and insights to enhance performance with competence,
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Topics in this issue:
1.
NLP and the Danger of Magical
Thinking
2.
The Rise and Rise of Business
Coaching
3.
Ericksonian Hypnosis
4.
Coaching/ Hypnosis/ Training
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NLP and the Danger of Magical Thinking
What do I mean by magical thinking? Let me
begin with a story. I heard various versions of the same
story line but I heard this one in Philadelphia while
training with my mentors, John and Julie.
This English guy had gone to an NLP training with a famous
NLP guru in London. The guru was mainly on stage and talking
and talking like in a stand-up comedy. He was humorous. He
was entertaining. He was provocative. The guy said he had a
good laugh but didn’t quite understand what it was all
about. After the training, he couldn’t remember what he had
learnt and was told to “trust your unconscious mind because
your unconscious has learned what it needed to learn”. So he
gave up trying to understand.
Twelve months later, he continued, he had left his job and
started a business and his business was booming. He still
couldn’t finger it out but attributed his success to the
training especially the on - stage talk of the guru. This is
what I mean by Magical thinking - he changed (in this case
for the better) but didn’t quite know how he did it. The
change was ignited, and perhaps directed, by the guru. If he
needed more positive changes in his life what does he do?
You guess it - he has to look for and listen to the guru
again. This is not what NLP is about. The power and
the direction for the change should reside in him. So that
he can purposively repeat it again and again in different
aspects of his life. And what if the change had been on the
negative side? This is fuel to people who labels NLP as a
cult.
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The Rise and Rise of Business Coaching
It is now the in thing. Any respectable CEO or
manager ought to hire one. Over the past 20 years, the
profession called executive coaching has become more and
more in demand. What drives it? Answer: the race to be
better in the business and corporate world. After all it was
derived from its sports cousin, which is to help athletes
run faster, jump higher, endure longer, etc. And what drives
the need to be better in the business and corporate world?
Answer: competition. Is competition likely to be lesser in
future? Answer: well you know the answer. If you want to
have that competitive edge over your rival, do you have a
choice? Again you know the answer.
Coaching succeeds where training fails. Training can provide
you with the depth and breath and even insight in any field.
But training cannot help you with the two things that you
most need for executive success: focus and execution. This
is just too true with all the conflicting and confusing
demands made on executives nowadays. The coach, acting as an
unbiased sounding board to challenge and question your
assumptions, helps you to focus your time and energy on
what’s really important to you.
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Ericksonian Hypnosis
Hypnosis is
an innately fascinating topic by itself. The topic
invites skeptism and a lively discussion about the
connection between the mind, the brain and the body. A
lot of fears and myths surround it. In a later
newsletter I will give more insights into the nature of
hypnosis and the fears and myths people have. Now I want
to talk about the 3 million dollar question most people
have: does hypnosis really work?
We are seeing more and more reports in prestigious
magazines (e.g. Time, Newsweek,) and documentaries (e.g.
BBC, Discovery Channel) that hypnosis has helped people
relieve phobias and body ailments. The British zoo
encourages visitors to gently pat small furry (safe)
animals as part of its campaign to get people to respect
animals. Those who have a fear of touching the creature
get to overcome it - through hypnosis. There is a
growing body of evidence by medical researchers like
Kirsch, Montgomery, Sapirstein, Schoenberger et al that
when hypnosis is part of a treatment, it generally
increases the benefits of the treatment. Hypnosis has
been used successfully in far too many conditions and
disorders to name them all, but some of the best known
applications are in the domains of pain, anxiety,
depression, phobias and children’s disorders.
While I am not about to pronounce that “hypnosis is the
answer to all of life’s challenges” it has been proven
to helps people discover and develop strengths in
themselves they didn’t know they had. To borrow Michael
Yapko’s words, the consequences in people’s lives are
often nothing short of extraordinary.
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Coaching/ Hypnosis/ Training
Zainal will be doing a public workshop “Bringing
out the Best out of Yourself and Others thru the
Enneagram” on 24-25 Nov 06. Fee is $385 per person ($350
before 5 Nov). To register please call Lucy at phone
67744863 or email me back for a copy of the
brochure.
Zainal is available for coaching as well as for
hypnosis. He also trains in NLP, Ericksonian Hypnosis,
Appreciative Inquiry, Solution Focus
leadership/management and Sales. On rare occasions, he
can be persuaded to do stage hypnosis for in-house
functions in connection with sales, leadership or
relationship excellence (but never for fun).
Please write to enquire
or register your interest by
emailing us your details.
Zainal Abidin Rahman
Certified NLP and Ericksonian Hypnosis Trainer
Web:
www.competencestrategies.com
Email:
zainal@competencestrategies.com
HP: (65) 9752 0670
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