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I managed to avoid a total disaster yesterday.

I was in the car with my wife, driving back from a long weekend away in nature. 

Since we had left on our trip, we had been avoiding checking our phones. Alas, now that the trip was over it was time to get back into the swing of things.

Once we got reception back, my wife checked her phone and surveyed her emails.

And as she came back to "reality", she became very worried...

Dianne Lowther has 30 years experience in learning and development and is a Certified Master Trainer of Neurolinguistic Programming with 23 years of practice, She’s the author of the book 'NLP for Work, the practical guide', working mostly with senior executives, leadership teams, HR and technical professionals. In this episode, we discover more about what NLP is, how it works, its benefits, how it relates to communication, and much, much more.

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