Control Your Mind, Control Your Results 2 April 2009 | The Verge @ TR 5 | 6.30PM By James Irvine, Team Egyii HR-in-Action Nite for the HR Community @ SHRI This talk will make the claim that the secret to getting good results at work is by getting control of our thinking, rather than just diving into new behaviours. Most learning programmes try to help us change our behaviours by giving us new knowledge and skills. However, much of the time nothing actually happens because we have not addressed the things that drive those behaviours i.e. our thinking patterns. It's like a plane trying to change course while all the time having the auto pilot set on another direction. Yes, it's important to learn new behaviours. But since so many of them are habitual, we need to change the beliefs, values and emotions that control those behaviours if we are to experience change that lasts more than a few days. And the funny thing is, when we do control our thinking patterns, the behaviours tend to take care of themselves. Based on Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), this talk will introduce you to some of the key drivers of our behaviour as well as methods for getting control of these. You will find that you can apply this knowledge in any situation both at work and at home, and you will gain a new sense of control over the results you get.

1. Control Your Mind,
Control Your Results

2. “If you think you can do a thing or think you
can‟t do a thing, you‟re right.”

3. Internal Map
Filters
Pictures
Values
Sounds
Beliefs
Feelings
Language
Smells
Memory
Tastes
Metaprograms
Self-talk
TERRITORY
STATE
BEHAVIOUR
Physiology
RESULTS

4. Ian is
My relationship behaving
with Ian is poor aggressively
therefore I must
be a bad
or towards me
– I am
manager curious
Relaxed
Stress and curious
Defensive physiology
physiology or Mind
Unpleasant focused on
interactions positive
aspects
Ian
Ian continues to
perceives
behave badly
confidence
Relationship
continues to or from me
and his
deteriorate
behaviour
changes

5. Metaprograms
“There are two things that motivate people to
succeed: inspiration and desperation.”
Anthony Robbins

6. Toward
Away from

7. “A single, positive self-belief such as „I relate
well to people‟ is probably equivalent to
many hours of skill training which, without
that empowering belief, would only have a
short-term effect.”
Dr Harry Adler

8. “I‟m no good at persuading people to my
way of thinking.”
Where does this belief originate from?
Where is the evidence to support this belief?
Where is the evidence to the contrary?
What will happen if I continue to hold this belief?
What could happen if I believed the opposite?
In what way is this belief ridiculous?
What would be a better, more empowering belief to have?

9. We have unlimited inner resources.
It‟s time for Learning & Development to help
people turn inwards and lay the foundation
for great behaviour, skills and performance.

10. www.egyii.com
Trip Allen: trip.allen@egyii.com
+65 91891967
James Irvine: james.irvine@egyii.com
+65 98278458