LATEST NEWS
11 Feb 2011
Blue Bamboo completes another successful NLP Diploma course.
Last week saw the final days of Blue Bamboo’s NLP Business Diploma course, held in Manchester. The successful delegates celebrated after a four-day experience that challenged, delighted, surprised, confused and enlightened individuals, leaving them with new insights and tools to take back into the workplace. The delegates had come from a range of businesses, from logistics, supply chain, recruitment and consultancy and shared real-life examples of how NLP will now be helping them improve both their personal efficiency and the performance of others.Manchester’s City Inn (now Mint Hotels) was an ideal venue for the course, hosting high quality accommodation and food, excellent customer service, easy access to central Manchester and a well-equipped gym for those in need of physical as well as mental exercise!
In some quarters of the business world, NLP is firmly established as a tool to aid performance. Typically, it’s most present in sales organisations, giving people more capability when selling over the phone or influencing others face to face in negotiations or pitching for work. However, in many areas of commerce, NLP has yet to be embedded or even introduced. For those on the Blue Bamboo’s business diploma course, the benefits of utilising NLP to improve their leadership skills became obvious. Furthermore, extending the same principles and techniques to the service of influencing others towards improved performance became equally useful. In particular, managing our internal state (emotions and thoughts), recognising the power in our language (both external and our ‘inner voices’) and how we can use our physiology to build and maintain rapport with others were regarded as some key learnings from the course.
Delegates came with a range of personal and professional objectives: to have more effective communication skills, to improve their leadership capability, generate ideas to help motivate and positively influence teams and generally to know more about themselves – the what, how and why they do what they do. For almost all, NLP was a new phenomenon and feedback from the course was universally positive: “without doubt the best training course I have been on. I’ve learned a massive amount”.
For this group at least, the next steps in their NLP journey are already being planned: Practitioner certification, for example. For all, the application of their newly discovered skills (for NLP recognises that we already have capabilities that are often simply dormant and needing re-igniting) back in the workplace is where the benefits will become tangible and measurable. For one delegate in particular who started using NLP after the first day of the course, the difference is palpable: “I used that technique on a phone call this morning and already everyone has got a better outcome; amazing!” Other delegates commented: “This course provided excellent tools to use in both a personal and professional environment to get the best out of people and feel positive about life”, “[the trainers] encouraged ‘free thinking’”, “fabulous all round and gave me stuff to use straight away at work and at home too!”
