How To Get Your Own Way

Engineer

I approached the Delta check-in at JFK Airport with trepidation. The lady behind the counter wasn’t laughing a lot. In fact she wasn’t laughing at all and may never have laughed in her entire life if the look on her face were anything to go by. I mentally rehearsed what I was going to say as I neared the…

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How To Influence

doctor-at-desk

If I walked up to you at a local Chamber of Commerce networking event and after introducing myself as a Life Coach, proceeded to eat the rather nice shrimp vol-au-vent off your plate, quaff the last of your delicious wine and then after announcing you were an asshole, turned and walked off. What would you think of me? Would…

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Liar, Liar – Pants On Fire (and you’re picking your nose)!

lie-detector

As this is a series on demystifying NLP let me start by being honest about this stuff. It doesn’t work with everybody and the people it does work with; it doesn’t necessarily work with them all the time. Its crap then, you may be thinking. Well no, not at all, it’s highly useful, but you have to know when…

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