Technology Integration 1
21 September 2009 13:00 Filed in: Stuff
This article gives a little background to the new training courses that are just starting to be offered
I have always had an interest in diversification and integration and throughout my life have avoided specialising in anything.
My career as an IT professional has supported this and though I learned to programme I went straight into IT Operations. In that field there are three ‘cliques’ and a hierarchy. The network and communications team look down on the server team; the server team look down on the service desk/desktop team and the service desk/desktop team feel unloved.
The value to me was always in the integration of the three disciplines as this made the systems work well and the better the three teams worked together, the better the integration and of course the end service.
What was also obvious that the value was about depth of technical knowledge, where I saw the value in the breadth of knowledge that the desktop engineer needed and the customer interface aspect that is vital in a service desk. So for me the three teams offered equal value to the ‘system’ and those of highest value would look beyond their team and the system.
I have used the same principles in my personal development and as I have attended more courses and learnt more interesting things, the ‘what if’ part of my brain has been weebling away, noticing how stuff can fit together to get a better outcome. Your skills evolve into a toolkit that can be applied appropriately and after a while you stop doing NLP or SRT and start doing ‘stuff’, which is difficult to market.
For example a challenge of changing behaviours in NLP for me was about understanding whether the behaviour satisfied another need and how one sorted that out. When I happened upon SRT that gave me a tool to clear a load of 'stuff' that drove behaviours so the two sat well together. TPM came along and gave me some really powerful tools to work with the unconscious that NLP lacked, but the transport mechanism to use those tools needed a huge amount of skill and flexibility, especially when using them on oneself. SRT provided an answer and a simple to use transport mechanism.
Over the last year I have done more personal development than ever before. I’ve been a bit like a mad professor, taking a tool, changing it a bit, applying it to myself and seeing what happens. There have been some interesting results and I’ve got positive outcomes in convoluted ways. The most important thing that has come out of this is an absolute certainty about what I’m here to do and a passion to do it.
For a long time I thought my purpose was to work with people to help them make positive changes in their lives and this is where the Make Yourself concept came from. What I realised recently thanks to some insights and people, is that the one to one work is in itself a means to an end. The true purpose has always been to teach ‘stuff’ to others so that they can work with people.
So over the past few months I have been taking the technologies I have access to, identifying the best bits, making them simpler and integrating them. Initially I’ve tried them out on myself, then on willing friends and accomplices and the results have been very positive. I’ll be honest and say they haven’t been perfect, but each time it was because the application of the technology wasn’t complete. Every time there was a blip it ironed out the process and the processes are pretty sound now.
The result is a personal coaching offering called remote clearing and the first of a number of courses that will teach the tools, processes and techniques to others. There is still a lot of work to do but the remote clearing ‘stuff’ is getting good results with everyone I’ve used it on and the first course to share this with people is in November
Mike
My career as an IT professional has supported this and though I learned to programme I went straight into IT Operations. In that field there are three ‘cliques’ and a hierarchy. The network and communications team look down on the server team; the server team look down on the service desk/desktop team and the service desk/desktop team feel unloved.
The value to me was always in the integration of the three disciplines as this made the systems work well and the better the three teams worked together, the better the integration and of course the end service.
What was also obvious that the value was about depth of technical knowledge, where I saw the value in the breadth of knowledge that the desktop engineer needed and the customer interface aspect that is vital in a service desk. So for me the three teams offered equal value to the ‘system’ and those of highest value would look beyond their team and the system.
I have used the same principles in my personal development and as I have attended more courses and learnt more interesting things, the ‘what if’ part of my brain has been weebling away, noticing how stuff can fit together to get a better outcome. Your skills evolve into a toolkit that can be applied appropriately and after a while you stop doing NLP or SRT and start doing ‘stuff’, which is difficult to market.
For example a challenge of changing behaviours in NLP for me was about understanding whether the behaviour satisfied another need and how one sorted that out. When I happened upon SRT that gave me a tool to clear a load of 'stuff' that drove behaviours so the two sat well together. TPM came along and gave me some really powerful tools to work with the unconscious that NLP lacked, but the transport mechanism to use those tools needed a huge amount of skill and flexibility, especially when using them on oneself. SRT provided an answer and a simple to use transport mechanism.
Over the last year I have done more personal development than ever before. I’ve been a bit like a mad professor, taking a tool, changing it a bit, applying it to myself and seeing what happens. There have been some interesting results and I’ve got positive outcomes in convoluted ways. The most important thing that has come out of this is an absolute certainty about what I’m here to do and a passion to do it.
For a long time I thought my purpose was to work with people to help them make positive changes in their lives and this is where the Make Yourself concept came from. What I realised recently thanks to some insights and people, is that the one to one work is in itself a means to an end. The true purpose has always been to teach ‘stuff’ to others so that they can work with people.
So over the past few months I have been taking the technologies I have access to, identifying the best bits, making them simpler and integrating them. Initially I’ve tried them out on myself, then on willing friends and accomplices and the results have been very positive. I’ll be honest and say they haven’t been perfect, but each time it was because the application of the technology wasn’t complete. Every time there was a blip it ironed out the process and the processes are pretty sound now.
The result is a personal coaching offering called remote clearing and the first of a number of courses that will teach the tools, processes and techniques to others. There is still a lot of work to do but the remote clearing ‘stuff’ is getting good results with everyone I’ve used it on and the first course to share this with people is in November
Mike