£400,000 Psychological training techniques for Suffolk County Council? Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) makes it debut from stage and screen to the corporate business world of local councils. The Suffolk County Council as part of their ongoing training program has chosen to delve into the mysterious world of NLP. And just short of half a million quid many councillors see it as a waste of money better spent on hypnotists and magicians that have you clucking like a chicken or make a coin disappear up your left nostril. Non the less, Andrea Hill Chief Executive Suffolk County Council who is on a salary of £220,000 (30 grand more than the Prime Minister) promotes the expensive NLP training program takes it all very seriously.
The crux of the problem begins with most that have even bothered to read the ‘Mail on line’ article will have never heard of NLP, or at best have very little understanding of it?
The few that have bothered to find out more about the subject will instantly come across its entertaining use by the likes of Paul Mckenna and Derren Brown for their television specials to baffle and bemuse audiences.
At this point the many will switch off and refuse to take NLP seriously and relegate its importance to cheap tricks for street corner illusionists? However, there are the minority of inquisitive minds who go the whole nine yards and find that NLP techniques are taken very seriously in the corporate world and do change both our every day behaviour and thought patterns?
To add weight to an idea or political point of view across to the masses various key words and phrases are used to encourage subtle subconscious manipulation of public opinion.
"In simple terms, NLP is a form of mind control?"
Corporate philosophy and business mindset books are full of it.
The life changing book ‘Who Moved my Cheese’ by Spencer Johnson is absolutely rammed with NLP techniques. A book which is said to be purposely churned out around offices and board rooms to see if chosen employees can work the message out?
The oddest ‘charity’ in the UK ‘Common Purpose’ is infested with NLP? Their mission statement used to read like an NLP group therapy seminar until it was mysteriously taken down?
And this brings us back to The Suffolk County Council, and many other councils up and down the country where ‘Common Purpose’ membership has dramatically increased twofold within the ranks of councillors and top management. Neuro Linguistic Programming is high on the agenda, and has been for some time.
Source: Mail online.12 October 2008
