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Association for Project Management, Peter Parkes, project management, Research, Resilience, soft skills, Stress, Wellbeing

Forgetting the pill: Dealing with severe stress using NLP instead of drugs

Research in neuro-science at Harvard and McGill is looking at use of drugs to alter the emotional association of memories for stress and trauma patients. NLP has been doing the same thing for years, and I think the mechanism is almost the same but without the side effects of the drugs. Continue Reading

Association for Project Management, Best Practice Groups (SIGs), Competence, NLP, NLP4PM, Peter Parkes, project management, Values and Behaviours

The executive’s guide to better listening

As the author of the linked McKinsey report says, we think that we are good listeners, including in the case of the executive described, and don’t accept the need to change, let alone go about it. Once people have realised that they are not good listeners, they hungrily devour techniques to fill that vacuum. Continue Reading

Association for Project Management, Best Practice Groups (SIGs), Leadership, NLP4PM, Peter Parkes, project management

My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, I announce excellence in the management of projects

I had the honour of being amongst fellow directors of the Association for Project Management on Friday for the chairman’s lunch to witness President Martin Barnes award Honorary Fellowships to the great and the good of our profession. Continue Reading

Association for Project Management, Community of Practice, Competence, NLP, NLP4PM, Peter Parkes, project management, soft skills, Training

Public sector cuts: Developing project managers to help turn adversity into opportunity

Last time modernisation and cuts were attempted in public services, creation of capability in change management and delivery were overlooked. Can we re-frame this adversity as an opportunity to create the competence to do things differently? Continue Reading

Association for Project Management, Best Practice Groups (SIGs), Communications, Peter Parkes

Assuring who, about what, and how?

There are many types of assurance in the market, offered by many providers, covering many facets of delivery. Why do we need so much external assurance, have we got our priorities wrong? Continue Reading

Association for Project Management, Coaching, Communications, Community of Practice, Competence, Facilitation, NLP, NLP4PM, Peter Parkes, project management, soft skills, Training, Uncategorized, Values and Behaviours

Talk to Scotland branch – competences, emotional intelligence and psychology

I was invited up to Glasgow to speak on the 18th May and completed my Scottish hat trick after events in Edinburgh in March and Aberdeen in April. One head of PM capability for a multi-national engineering firm asked how the skills covered in my talk / book relate to emotional intelligence (EI) frameworks. Continue Reading

Association for Project Management, Best Practice Groups (SIGs), Coaching, Communications, Community of Practice, Facilitation, NLP, NLP4PM, Peter Parkes, project management, soft skills, Training, Uncategorized, Values and Behaviours

Facilitating strategy using NLP

I was asked to facilitate a strategy session across the Association for Project Management’s (APM) best practice groups last week at their twice-yearly forum and was able to put many NLP tools and techniques to effective use. Continue Reading

Association for Project Management, Best Practice Groups (SIGs), NLP, NLP4PM, Peter Parkes, project management