Ideas into Action Blog

7
Jan

NLP: The Power of Psychology in Influencing and Communicating

Our attitude affects our performance - we all know that. The energy you get from feeling positive about yourself feeds through into your performance. This is a crucial feature of sports coaching and it is just as important in business. And that is the aim of NLP. Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a powerful psychological approach that models excellent behaviours at the conscious and unconscious levels in order to help us, and those we interact with, achieve success in our goals and move forward in our work and personal lives. Focussing on key behavioural skills including influencing and communicating, NLP can be used very effectively in HR because it allows us to develop the crucial behaviours, communication techniques (verbal and non-verbal), and mindsets that deliver success.

Posted by Ross Maynard on Thu, 7 Jan 2010   read more...

 
2
Jan

Making a Start with Lean. How to begin improving your business processes

There are many books on lean available and some complicate their message with obscure Japanese terms and complex formulas. They seem to expect years of understanding of the philosophy of lean. Very few books that I am aware of give a clear, simple “how to get started” guide, so here is my attempt at getting you started:

Posted by Ross Maynard on Sat, 2 Jan 2010   read more...