Create training programs based on psychological needs
Have you ever been to a time management course? This is just one example of most training programs out there that are teaching the skills of already successful people to others who don’t have the mindset for it in the first place. Let’s take the time management course as an example, I’m yet to find a standard time management course that doesn’t teach – prioritise, plan your time, organise your day. And yes, this is what good time managers do, so it would be a reasonable option to train those concepts. But, if the people sitting in the training had the mindset to do those tasks, they wouldn’t be in a classroom learning again the steps to a successful day. This is where the aspects of NLP come in extremely useful in training. Sure, people need to be trained or taught the ‘how’, but what is most often missing in soft-skill type training (anything to do with people), is the mindset. When was the last time you saw a Time Management workshop and they talked about your beliefs and mindset? Have you ever heard a trainer sharing Time Management skills say that it is absolutely OK to procrastinate, be deadline driven and do your best work at the last minute? Probably not. However, if you came to one of our Time Management workshops that we run for our corporate...
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