Andy's Blog

A question I am asked regulalrly is: How can I work out someone’s ‘colour type’?

The answer is through observation.  Think about it.  If someone walked into the room, you wouldn’t necessarily know IMMEDIATELY whether they were left or right-handed… but, by observing how they do things, you might start to see their preferences as manifested through their actions.

It’s the same for psychological types.  Observe and it will become clear in their body language, tone of voice and content of what they say – and how they communicate.

And, a major part of modern-day communication can be found in the emails we send and receive.

I have spoken at a certain conference hotel three or four times.  It’s in the midlands, and, by all accounts seems to be a popular venue. But they have lost £thousands in lost recommendations (from me), by being belligerent and pedantic.  This is almost unbelievable…

Think about yourself for a moment… what is the one emotion you would prefer NOT to have? (and I bet you didn’t choose NOT to have the emotion of Joy; satisfaction; love; contentment or peace!)
However, positive psychology makes a suggestion about emotions – even (or especially) about the negative emotions we all experience from time to time.
Positive psychology recognises a fundamental truth about emotions which most of my coaching clients are failing to see (until they have had a few sessions with me, of course!).
In a neurotypical person (i.e. no mental disorder or pathology), the secret of emotions is that they all – every single one of them – could actually be thought of as helpful messengers. They tell us something about our reactions and attitude towards the outside world. They help us identify how we FEEL about a situation or person.

I have spoken with and coached many thousands of people across the world. I have been involved in coaching since about 1996 – and obtained a National Diploma in coaching well before it was such a ‘buzz word’. And one of the ‘Top Three Big Issues’ I deal with is CONFIDENCE! Well, LACK of confidence… Here’s a way do deal with it…

Whether you want to influence work colleagues, your boss, customers, friends and family – even your kids, it has to be said that getting support and agreement for your ideas and suggestions is a useful skill.

Not many people win big on the lottery. In the UK, it’s a 14 million to one possibility. The Euromillions jackpot is available to those who beat odds of more than 70 million to one.

If you face a problem the size of Mount Everest, remember there are around seven lower camps before you reach the summit!

Have you heard of NLP? NLP stands for Neuro Linguistic Programming a model started back in the 1970’s of understanding how people organise their thinking, feeling, language and behaviour to produce the results they do.

Someone emailed me recently and reminded me of an exercise I had run in a workshop she had attended. It was, she reminded my, a startling way of seeing how differently we all think.

Have you heard of NLP? NLP stands for Neuro Linguistic Programming a model started back in the 1970’s of understanding how people organise their thinking, feeling, language and behaviour to produce the results they do.