In all of propgrammes we apply a systemic thinking approach and draw on a wide range of knowledge and understanding that we access through our Integrated Development Model where you will find more information on our areas of expertise:
Management Theory and Accountancy - Science and Philosophy
- NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming)
- Spiral Dynamics
- Time Lines
- Myers Briggs Typology and Jungian personality theory
- Hypnotherapy - Coaching Conversations
all of which we use to support the development of people and which we continually grow through our own extensive personal development programme.
Change can take many forms in organisations and is usually a response to changes in the external business environment. For example: new products; new services; new internal processes; new ways of engaging the customer; new ways of gaining new business; new ways of rewarding and motivating employees; new ways of recruiting the right people; are all changes introduced with the aim of making the business better.
In all of these changes, the change happens on two levels and for it to be successful both have to be led: Firstly on a substantive level the change needs to be clearly structured so all aspects of what you are changing from and changing to are clearly understood. Secondly, on a people level, those people who will be touched by the change need the right sort of support to help them move with the substantive change to help the business make it a success.
Supported by our on-line PeopleScan Change State Indicator assessment instrument, a customised approach to the change process will be designed and any issues preventing effective change will be pinpointed so they can be addressed proactively.
The obstacles to change are so often misunderstood and our approach breathes much needed transparency and clarity into the process. Understanding overcomes fear and you will begin to embrace change and see it as a positive process.
Although we draw on many resources to facilitate change, one of the most helpful particularly regarding cultural change is Spiral Dynamics and more information can be found on it by following the link. Spiral Dynamics assesses value systems in organisations, parts of organisations and in individual people in a way that has previously not been possible. It is a very powerful means for describing in tangible terms where you are culturally, and where you want to get to.
As always, for more information on any of our programmes, please contact us to discuss your situation.
As society develops and the needs and attitudes of people change ever more rapidly, leaders and managers are faced with an increasing need to adopt a style and approach more conducive to the diverse nature of today’s workforce requirements.
Being an effective leader and manager today means being able to provide an environment in which all people want to perform. The alignment of organisations behind common sets of values and behaviours is part of the solution. Excellent leaders also need to understand the differences in development stages, states and mindsets of their workforce so the appropriate motivators can be put in place that make high performance inevitable.
Underdstanding diversity and how to comunicate effectively is not just the realm of the senior team. Organisations function more effectively when all parts of the workforce have an awareness of the need to accept the diverse nature of the organisation. People need to deal with a range of people and personalities in order to be truly effective. We use a unique combination of powerful organisational models to facilitate this understanding.
Our approach can be applied to any scenario in which new leadership understanding and workforce development is required to meet the changing demands of your business environment. We develop for you a customised solution using workshops, one to one coaching and use of powerful on-line assessment instruments to give valuable insights and feedback. This can be applied to individuals looking for high performance results, leadership team development projects or as part of a wider organisational change programme (see 'Change' below).
To compliment our leadership and management development process in organisations we draw from a range of workshops such as:
Self awareness and personal development
Using value systems for motivation of self and others
Delegation and empowerment
Personal high performance and time management
Understanding diversity and value systems
Leading diverse teams and building high performing teams
Understanding and facilitating change
Communication skills
Creating Inspiration
Appraisals and feedback
Coaching conversations
Making difficult conversations easy
Business goal setting
Networking and relationship building
Excellence in customer care
Negotiating
Presentation skills and public speaking
Managing meetings
Facilitation skills
Train the trainer
Please contact us to discuss your specific requirements
In our view there is much misunderstanding of teams and teamwork. The common analogy of a sports team glued together by a common purpose with allocated roles all pulling together for victory is relevant... well... for sports teams basically. Work based business teams are completely different entities: most people are not together carrying out a share of the same task in close co-operation with each other apart from in team meetings. The rest of the time most work based teams are divided geographically and individual members or sub groups often perform autonomous activities that contribute to the overall objective by them working with extended members of the team or even members of other teams.
The objective therefore of any team development process is not to simply churn out the same old 'same old', but to actually determine just exaactly what type of architecture the team is required to operate by, and then determine the most effective form of development to give the team what it needs.
Our team development programmes begin with a diagnostic interviewing process to determine what is required. From there we have a wide range of models and references to draw on from which we construct your custom team development programme.
Implementation is designed flexibly around the time requirements and availability of team members.
The key to understanding others and how to communicate with them is to first understand ourselves. Our personal development programmes are based around a range of well researched tools that each do two things: firstly they provide a model of human behaviour, by this we mean some way of explaining or representing why different people do what they do and think what they think in different circumstances. Secondly they provide a way for you to position yourself against the model so you can see how you fit.
All the models we use are self asessment based, and facilitatied in a safe and friendly style. We do have models that can be used as 360 assessment tools if required. Also, all of the models we use are difference-positive based in that there is never any judgement about one outcome being better than another, simply different, and all outcomes have positive aspects.
And what do you do with the outcome when you have it? The general principle is you learn flexibility and acceptability - two characters that make us more effective human beings in more situations:
Flexibility - because through the self awareness process we learn not only what we prefer to be but also what we else we could choose to be. By broadening our awareness we can learn from others what it means to be different and what it would take for us to act in that way. We therefore gain the opportunity to make a choice - to decide which behaviour to adopt - according to the situation we are facing. Asby's law of requisite variety, as determined from the field of cybernetics, states that the entity with the greatest flexibility will control the system, and it applies to human systems as well.
Acceptability - understanding how others are different and learning to see situations from their perspective builds our capacity for accepting others as they are and seeing their contribution as valuable - the true meaning of diversity. From the philosophy of Gregory Bateson - wisdom comes from multiple perspectives.
So personal development through personal awareness builds wisdom and control - who can say no!!
The following information refers to open courses run at the Integral Life Centre, Tattenhall, just outside Chester. For in-house NLP training courses and NLP for specific applications, please contact us for further information.
Philip and Alex Jackson are accredited by INLPTA, (www.inlpta.co.uk) the International NLP Trainers Association to deliver accredited training in NLP.
INLPTA was founded over 20 years ago by Wyatt Woodsmall with whom we trained personally. Wyatt has been involved with NLP since its early development and has trained NLP in over 25 countries on 5 continents. His experience includes conducting over thirty 20 day NLP Trainer Trainings all around the world and he co-trained with Richard Bandler on the first ever NLP Trainer Trainings. The INLPTA syllabus is considered to be the minimum required for reaching the standard of Practitioner and has now been adopted as the UK standard by the ANLP.
There are shorter practitioner training courses available from other providers that cover less material and provide less practice time for around the same cost. The choice is between gaining the badge or gaining the know-how - for more views on chosing and NLP trainer go to NLP.
To enable easier entry to the practitioner qualification route, INLPTA have set standards for an accredited 4 day diploma to give a structured introduction to the subject. The 4 days form part of the 16 day practitioner training and are taken from the practitioner syllabus.
New to Jackson Solutions in 2008 we are now offering the opportunity to train with us:
INLPTA NLP Diploma £350
No entry qualification requirement
4 days arranged in 2 x 2 day blocks approx 4 weeks apart
INLPTA NLP Practitioner
No entry qualification requirement
With no prior learning:
16 days arranged in 8 x 2 day blocks £1,600
With NLP Diploma or to upgrade from other practitioner short course:
12 days arranged in 6 x 2 day blocks £1,250
INLPTA NLP Master Practitioner
Entry qualification: INLPTA NLP Practitioner (or equivalent)
18 days arranged in 9 x 2 day blocks £1,800
Class sizes will aim at 8 people and prices are plus VAT and include all course materials, venue and lunch.
Quite simply for us Coaching is a one to one relationship where the coach helps the client to see the light and work out what to do next to get there.
Coaching is not counselling, therapy, consulting, advising or mentoring. It is the supported learning and development of another human being by asking the right questions and introducing the right knowledge to help the client find their best way forward, their best solution and best action plan.
Coaching in the Integrated Development Model provides rich resources, knowledge and know-how directed at your own personal progress. In this way coaching draws on many of the wider resources available to us such as NLP, TimeLines, Spiral Dynamics, Myers Briggs and Hypnotherapy if required. Further details on each of these can be found under the Integrated Development Model.
If you're at the top of your business, or have recently reached a significant goal, then you may be wondering what you are going to do next and find yourself facing some tough decisions. Sometime this can be accompanied by the sense that 'there must be more to life than this' which can lead to difficult questions and even more difficult answers.
We can give you clarity over your position. We will offer you our expertise in human development (see our Integrated Development Model) through NLP, Spiral Dynamics, Time Lines, Myers Briggs, Coaching, Hypnotherapy and many years real life experience in senior management positions to allow you to clarify, rationalise, understand and simplify your current position, future direction and priorities.
Through our executive coaching, we will help you discover what stage of life development you are at using, amongst others, a values-system assessment instrument that will put all events – past and current and even future – into one complete perspective and help you understand where you are and where you're going.
The Special Programme is open to include anything that is required from one to one telephone coaching through to accompanied five star country retreats of several days in appropriate locations, involving whatever activities and experiences are necessary to provide you the space and resources for unrestricted thinking and self exploration, learning and understanding. You will find clarity and an answer to your questions.
This programme is expensive and deeply developmental and only those serious about really wanting answers to their big questions should enquire.
If this is you then telephone Philip or Alex for a confidential telephone consultation
Since NLP is about how we develop, create and control our subjective experience and is enormously valuable in the field of education and learning. Understanding, through NLP, the basis of our subjective communication and the impact of language patterns and how actions, thoughts, feelings and behaviours are linked has a huge impact on the effectiveness of teaching and learning.
NLP applies to teaching in two frames:
Firstly as a valuable self awareness and personal development tool to help teachers to handle the diversity of situations they find themselves in and to cope with the sometimes difficult decisions and actions that must be taken. NLP gives teachers the ability to create positive and resourceful states of mind for the many aspects of the work. For more information on NLP as a self development tool, see the NLP section above or contact us for a free consultation.
Secondly, NLP gives teachers additional tools and approaches to support more effective learning. For example NLP covers the complete understanding of sensory learning styles, visual, auditory and kinaesthetic, by linking them to the way students prefer to think. Visual students will always struggle to spell phonetically and visa versa so NLP can give insights to aid appropriate teaching content. This is just one way in which students show preferences for receiving information. NLP includes many more models that can help a teacher understand why certain students may need to receive information differently. For example whether students have preferences for variety or routine; for external activity or internal reflection; planned or spontaneous; in-time or through-time; big picture or detail and so on can all have an influence on teaching approach.
NLP gives teachers resources for creating appropriate learning states in students. The use of positional anchoring, for example, such as standing in a particular spot in a certain way with an open book has been shown to be effective at gaining attention and creating a listening mind without any verbal instruction.
The use of certain language structures and patterns also has a massive impact on the thoughts, feelings and behaviours of students. For example from a recent case study an 8 year old with hearing difficulties had always struggled to complete a piece of work. The teacher’s language structure was changed from a helpful and supportive ‘don’t worry if you can’t do it, if you get stuck I’ll always come and help you’ to a more positive ‘I know how much you like this story so you can use your wonderful imagination to write your own story about anything you like’. The avoidance of negative embedded commands creates an empowering language structure. The 8 year old produced their first ever independent piece of work.
If new approaches are to be developed and adopted by teachers in a school, the support and involvement of parents becomes a significant parallel step. Daytime and evening sessions for parents build valuable awareness of the teaching approach and coaching parents on the use of positive language patterns means that students get consistent messages at home as well as in school.
So NLP can support teachers and teaching and parents and parenting in so many ways. Contact us for a free consultation and to find out more.
