NLP: The New Technology of Change

NLP: The New Technology of Change

Practical Skills for Coaches and Change Leaders

Facing change?  Aren’t we all?

During one of the “wildest rides” most of us can remember … we are face-to-face with basic fears: What can we rely on? What can we trust? Where is the sign of relief and something better?

· What are YOU doing, now, for your clients, your team, and your company – to improve your outlook and prepare for recovery?

· How do you ensure that you become MORE valuable at work, set yourself apart for promotion, build a stronger team, create a stronger more profitable enterprise?

· What will help you provide better advice to your clients?

· How do you help yourself and others stay focused on the positive?

Where is the opportunity to coach and encourage others to take steady action toward change, when so much is uncertain?

Join us for a powerful new workshop to help your clients, team or organization navigate change more simply and easily, in ways that really work.

Come away with practical skills you can apply immediately

to create positive movement in any change situation,

regardless of how complex or hopeless it may seem!

Nobody loves change, especially when it’s out of our control and “takes away” something we have come to expect and enjoy. Events that force us to adapt, also force us to examine outdated assumptions, move through our own resistance, and see our “control” issues.

What sets apart the few rare souls who respond to change as an adventure, from the rest of us?

Approaching change with optimism and using it to create opportunity is a learned skill — not a natural tendency for human beings. Approximately 3 out of every 4 change efforts fail in the organizational world. If you are leading change, you need to arm yourself with the latest approaches to communication, planning, decision making, self-reliance, and influencing. The right toolkit can make a BIG difference.

While I internalized a number of potent skills during the New Technology of Change workshop it has been my internal change that has been most remarkable (and slightly mysterious).  I am seeing solutions in a new way and am more resourceful, fluid, and patient.  The mysterious part is that I can’t point to the moment this change occurred nor can I say it is always conscious. What I can say is that it is real, extremely valuable, and good fun. –Dan Jolliff, Site Human Resources Director, Avago Technologies, Ft. Collins, Colorado

Workshop Purpose

The New Technology of Change offers fresh approaches to driving true buy-in, commitment, and passion in people during change.

A client of the workshop facilitators recently said “We have the books, the training, and the road maps. We need to learn what makes someone really want to adapt themselves to the changes our business is facing.”

The answer to that question is The New Technology of Change workshop – providing practical skills for coaches and change agents that can be applied immediately to create positive movement in any change situation, no matter how complex or hopeless it may seem!

Gerry is one of the preeminent NLP trainers to work within the rigorous NLP Comprehensive trainer development program.  For the past 10 years, he has been working in the corporate world, helping to manage large-scale culture change programs. His partner, Lisa Jackson managed NLP Comprehensive for several years, after which she built a tremendously successful coaching and “leadership planning” practice.

“I applied what I learned in this workshop right away to transform several very important relationships within my organization.  It’s amazing how you get no resistance when you learn how to effectively pave the way for change! These tools have altered forever what it means to “be the change I want to see in the world.” — Jamie Kingsley, Senior Vice President, Hawkeye Partners, LP

NLP: The New Technology of Change translates the best of NLP, into coaching and consulting work with executives and their teams. These skills create real change that makes it easier and simpler to implement change. You will learn how to tap the deepest levels of human motivation, enthusiasm, and initiative – based on scientific modeling of what creates excellence in human behavior. If you choose to learn these skills, you can be masterful at reliably moving a person or group from Point A to Point B — without fallout – no matter how complex or chaotic the situation may be.

Who Should Attend
Coaches, consultants (internal or external), and line executives who want to learn simpler and more effective methods for helping people and organizations create buy-in to change.

This workshop was designed for people without NLP training or background. For someone with major NLP training, please contact us directly to explore if it is a good fit.

What You Will Take Away

1. Improved ability to work with the #1 driver of real change.

2. Ten core beliefs of a change agent, and a plan to “own” them

3. A model of the “magical” ability to affect change without unintended side effects (e.g., “buyer’s remorse”, feeling manipulated, “that’s too woo-woo”, etc.).

4. Use of precise language as a tool for building commitment and directing attention.

5. Simple and systemic intervention structures and tools.

6. Improved confidence to facilitate client-focused movement and change-capacity in ANY situation, no matter how complex, unpredictable or chaotic.

7. A personally transformational experience …

As a champion, leader, and facilitator of change in a corporation, it’s imperative to understand what accelerates or inhibits people to embrace change.  Businesses of all sizes need to be able to quickly adapt to customer needs and adjust to changing competitive pressures.  The New Technology of Change work is practically focused where change begins: Adaptability at the personal level, and tools to directly improve organizational change efforts.  The methodologies taught in this work are valuable for anyone interested in freeing themselves, other individuals, or an organization up to make true change happen. –Bekki Smith, VP of HR in a Fortune 200 company

Dates: & Details:

Schedule: April 30 to May 2, 2009: Thursday — 3-7 PM, Friday — 9 AM to 6 PM, Saturday — 8 AM to 12 PM

This allows you to fly in to Denver from almost anywhere in the US on Thursday morning and Super Shuttle to the hotel by 1 PM. (pick an arrival at DIA by 11 AM to be safe).  You’ll have completed the program by noon Saturday so that you can catch a flight home that afternoon -and some of Colorado’s famous skiing is only 45 minutes away at A-Basin!

Space is Limited: We are keeping this first rollout small – just twenty five – so that we can assure you the success we’ve promised.

CLICK HERE To Reserve Your Place; Cost is $595 for the first ten to enroll and $695 thereafter (click "add to cart" to see your actual cost)

(NOTE: The program may be videotaped for business purposes. Due to pre-enrollments at press time there are only 23 places available.)

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Here’s your opportunity to get up close and personal with a couple of the most talented “change practitioners” in the country – Gerry Schmidt and Lisa Jackson of Jackson & Schmidt.  A unique chance to get hands-on (I should probably say minds-on) training and experience in their high-powered skill and art of making real change work! I don’t do this kind of thing unless it’s REALLY GREAT and REALLY WORTH IT.  Believe me, it is.  I’m actually coming back for a second time. Sure, we are all busy and the economy stinks. But, once more with FEELING…this is really worth the time and expense - for both your professional and personal life. – Michael White, U.S. Navy Reserve and Independent Consultant

About the Facilitators

Gerry Schmidt is co-founder and Senior Partner of Jackson & Schmidt, a consulting firm specializing in working with executive teams to create innovation and adaptability.

He received his NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner Training in 1980-81, and for 10 years was a senior trainer for the premiere institute in the field. His 30-year career has focused on working with hundreds of individuals, leaders, and organizations to create lasting and effective change. Gerry’s special talent is modeling the “unseen” practices, behaviors, and beliefs of exceptional leaders, and teaching those to others.

He previously founded and ran Matrix Consulting Group and served as Executive Vice President of ARC International, an international consulting firm specializing in large scale organizational change. He is an author of a best-selling Nightingale-Conant audio program on NLP.

Dr. Schmidt holds a PhD in systems approaches to Educational Psychology and a master’s degree in Earth Science from the University of South Carolina. He received his bachelor’s degree from Colgate University. He currently resides in Folly Beach, South Carolina.

Lisa Jackson is co-founder and Senior Partner of Jackson & Schmidt.

She is a Master Practitioner in NLP, with over 50 days of training and 15 years of applied experience. Her unique specialty today is as a coach and trusted advisor for executives and leadership teams.

She has worked for the past 15 years facilitating large-scale and small change efforts, from the executive team to the front-line in companies such as Merck, Avaya, and Boeing, as well as entrepreneurial companies challenged by the transitions of rapid growth. She has significant experience in pharmaceutical, renewable energy, technology, and service industries.

Lisa has successfully grown two small businesses in addition to her consulting and coaching practice.

Ms. Jackson graduated magna cum laude in Business Administration from the University of Colorado in 1989.

She currently resides in Littleton, Colorado.

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