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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, 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