The end of another week - and only just over four weeks to Christmas, now that is scary!
I had good chats this week with both my manager and his, about the NLP course and what I got out of it. I didn't however feel as if I made any progress with actually putting anything into practice, I feel very snowed under at work just now and find it hard to step back and think about anything other than "getting things done". I want to make time to do that each week, to keep the approach at the forefront of my mind rather than letting it get buried somewhere near the back!
On Wednesday I attended a workshop entitled "Critical Success Factors for Effective Personal and Organisational Change", run by Elisabeth Goodman of RiverRhee Consulting. There was some useful stuff in there, models and techniques for change management which will no doubt come in useful. Interestingly, the NLP "Levels of Influence" diagram formed part of the discussion - it can be useful to know what levels people are operating at, if you want to encourage them to accept change.
Having been on a Knowledge Management course, an NLP course and a Change Management course all in the last six weeks, I feel a bit "modelled out"! It would be good to take stock of all of them, and see where the overlaps are - particularly between NLP and Change Management.
Off to a party this weekend, at which I will know very few people. An excellent opportunity to listen to people talking and see if I can use the filters to help me enter the conversation!
