Comments on: Stacking The Deck

By: Tim Brownson

Tim Brownson — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:05:33 +0000

@ Evan – The best ROI was my NLP training. I use NLP with almost every client and I’m not sure how I’d manage to coach without it. In that respect it is priceless to me.

The life coaching training gave me the basics and an understanding of coaching. Without it I wouldn’t have become a coach.

The various other trainings including hypnotherapy have been useful in different ways offering incremental improvements and different tools and techniques. As in sales we may learn something that we never use in 6 months, but then a process or technique allows us to move a client positively that wasn’t responding to the usual approach.

I also enjoyed a lot of my training, but that’s not why I did it and it’s not why I’d encourage anybody else to do it.

By: Evan

Evan — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:22:21 +0000

Hi Tim, The following is my way of assessing training. How much did you change as a result of the courses? How much of the material in them contributed to this change? All of it? 90% 10%? It depends what you mean by "great". Some people mean they had a good time (training as a kind of entertainment). Hope this makes sense. Evans last blog post..One Hundred Years - and counting

By: Tim Brownson

Tim Brownson — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 13:02:49 +0000

@ Evan – I think some training is a con, definitely. I’m not sure as I’d go as far as to say much of it is. Although I have no direct experience in the majority of it, so I’m guessing really.

Not sure how many different courses I have a attended, but it’s a lot. I can think of one course that was a rip-off and another that wasn’t really up to scratch. The rest were great. Maybe I just got lucky.

By: Evan

Evan — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:56:05 +0000

So much depends on the training doesn't it? Those who are successful aren't necessarily any good at teaching. Much of the qualification industry is just a con in my opinion. I'd like to see some discussion of how things haven't changed. Eg. the idea of having something of value to a big enough group of customers. I guess there are all sorts of new application of this in the blogosphere, but maybe if I understood the principle deeply it would be much quicker to learn the new applications to the blogosphere. Evans last blog post..One Hundred Years - and counting

By: Tim Brownson

Tim Brownson — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:51:41 +0000

@ Guy – That is exactly why I LOVE comments. You make an excellent point that I hadn’t thought of!

My advice may be complete crap to perfectionists and people with anxiety issues. It may tip them over the edge by telling them they need to do more.

Thanks a lot for bringing that to my attention! Now should I add a caveat or hope people read the comments?

BTW, like what you’re doing at your blog, very interesting.

By: Guy

Guy — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:32:56 +0000

reading my previous comment, the tradesmen thought was not an appropriate analogy more a metaphor.I was trying to make the point that sometimes one can try to stack the decks too much trying to stay one step ahead of the oppostion/competition. For someone plagued with self-doubt this can lead to anxiety. I am probably reading my own interpretation of this post, but well... Anyway have been reading the site for a while Tim and really enjoy your work, hope you are not missing blighty too much... //guy Guys last blog post..Easy Sugar Virgins or how to make £10,000,000,000,000,000,000

By: Tim Brownson

Tim Brownson — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:15:33 +0000

@ Melissa – The health think is kinda weird to me because it seems that many people don’t consider it until ill health hits them Of course millions of people work out and eat healthily, but a lot more don’t. And what percentage take the time to work on their mental health with things like meditation. 1% maybe?

@ That’s a great question mate and I honestly can’t give you an answer. I guess it’s down to the individual. I think when we hire other people it’s a matter of doing due diligence on those people and not trying to be better than them! IOW, ask for testimonials, check their credentials etc and then let them get on with it.

@ Jay – Barf bag good, wow, now that’s what I call good!

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:56:31 +0000

This is true in every field. I went out and "bought" a degree online and assumed I was done. I went into accounting expeciting it to be like the classes I ace'd. Nope! Not even close. Accounting changes all the time and if you do not keep up, you fall behind. I personally did not care enough about accounting to hurt my noodle anymore so I escaped- but the same is true with blogging, writing, and dream analysis of which are my new medium. Vigilance is key- however following the heart makes this easy because you want to be the best you can so vigilance is a side effect. Is Will Smith the perfect person or what - counsling to avoid pitfalls that do not exist- he is barf bag good. :-) Thanks for the love Tim! Jays last blog post..The Sunday Ponder