[Neurons] 2010 Meta Reflections #32

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta Reflections 2010 #32

July 15, 2010

 

IF I WERE UNEMPLOYED

 

 

Lots of people are unemployed.  Statistics for most of this year (2010) has
put employment in the United States at about 10 percent.  That's millions
and millions of people.  And if we include those who have given up looking,
there are millions more which probably makes the actual unemployment rate
closer to 14% or more.  And in Spain and other places, unemployment
statistics are even much higher.

 

During the recession in the early 1980s when there was also a high
unemployment rate, I was unemployed from time to time, but kept picking up
various jobs, usually minimum wage and typically hard physical work.  One
temporary job I took in 1983 was as a typist for Kelly Girl (now Kelly
Services).  (I was also paid the highest rate of all the Kelly Girls because
I was the fastest "girl" on the keyboard!)  Back in the early 1980s I didn't
know NLP, but I did get a mischievous enjoyment out of being sent to some
business as a "Kelly Girl" and watch the facial expressions on people as I
walked in!

 

Today, as a Neuro-Semanticist, if I were unemployed, I would be unemployed
for a day or two at best.  That's because with the language skills of NLP,
the coaching skills of Neuro-Semantics, along with the framing skills, the
relational and social skills, and the negotiating skills, I would head right
to McDonalds or Burger King or any fast food place, or any other place that
needs front-line people, and be hired on by the afternoon.  My strategy
would be as follows.

 

I would offer to work for one week without any pay to prove myself and I
would position the hiring as only if I am worth at least twice and probably
three and four times as much as you pay for entry.  I would propose to the
owner or the person hiring that I would make you look great by meeting every
number that you as a supervisor or manager are measured by.  I would work
harder than anyone on staff, I would set the pace for adding massive value
to every customer, whether an internal or external customer.

 

If I were unemployed today I would then make it my purpose to enable every
person I'd work with to enjoy their job, awaken to their possibilities, and
become more effective.  I would use my coaching skills to create a
connection through listening and supporting them.  I would be their personal
coach at work.  I would access the very best states for serving customers
and meet not only their expectations, but also their hopes and desires as
best as I could, and if at all possible, their unknown needs and desires
(I'd be thinking of their hierarchy of needs and meeting them all the way up
if possible).

 

If I were unemployed today I'd be accessing my best states to make those
overseeing my work informed about what's happening at the ground level,
giving them ideas for improving morale, productivity, and motivation -
letting them take all the credit for the ideas.  It would be my conspiracy
for getting them some raises and recognition, and only they and me would
know about it.

 

If I were unemployed today I'd be using my framing skills with fellow
employees, managers, and customers to enable all to create the very best
meanings in that work environment -meanings that would enrich their everyday
experience.  I'd use my induction skills to invite all to access ever
increasingly rich resourceful states and do so subtly so that they wouldn't
recognize what I was doing, but only have good feelings when they walk away
from our brief encounters.  And that would condition them unconsciously to
keep coming around to get some more!

 

If I were unemployed today I would think in terms of the overall business
success, the leadership, the management, and the culture, and subtly plant
ideas with people at all levels about new possibilities and again, let them
take on the ideas as if it were their own so that they would begin to create
cultural change from the ground up.  I would do an assessment of the level
of engagement in people at the work and also as assessment of their basic
and higher needs (using the Self-Actualization Assessment Scale) and focus
on enabling each person's coping and mastery skills.

 

But sadly I'm not unemployed.  Actually, I am also not employed at all!  I
just work for myself and play around with the things that I'm interested
which just so happens to provide the financial resources that I need to be
financially stable and independent.  So I don't even need a job, I have a
mission.  But if you need a job, and if you are unemployed, and you have
some NLP and/or Neuro-Semantic skills ... then perhaps you'd like to adopt
this strategy for your own.  If not, I'd encourage you by all means to learn
the skills of NLP and Neuro-Semantics.  They'll change your life as they did
mine and millions of others around the planet.

 

To your ever-increasing Resourcefulness for handling the Challenges of
Everyday Life with power and joy!

 

 

 

 

 

                        

 

 

 

L.  Michael Hall, Ph.D.

(ISNS) International Society of Neuro-Semantics

The International Meta-Coach System

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