Ways To Enhance Performance In A Government Department

By David Ferrers

A article in today's issue of the Sunday Times paper states that the UK Administration is looking for ways to streamline civil service departments. The report highlights the fact that Ministers are worried that civil service departments are still bloated and that they cannot continue to cut away the fat. What's needed is a radical reform.

What the government needs to realise is that people who work in the civil service are like all the other people in that they are creatures of habit. They have become used to doing their work in certain ritualistic ways and it is incredibly hard for them to change or to even accept the reality they need to change.

The people near the top of civil service departments will be the most resistant to change. They have climbed to where they are right now by operating a system and they will never wish to see changes in that system.

To cultivate a climate for change and to help department heads to introduce radical change what is essential are NLP techniques that are proven to be capable of making people behave in different ways.

What departments heads need to do is first to clarify what they want to change and what the new processes will look like. Then they will have to find the people that are well above average at implementing the sort of changes they'd like to make. These outstanding leaders can then be modelled so that their metaphysical patterns can be seen and replicated in other members of the department.

These NLP techniques will need to be implemented by experienced NLP practitioners because a lot of people who work in the civil service are motivated by the need to feel secure. People motivated by security are more immune to change than people with other motivations.

About the Author:

NLP Practitioner David Ferrers defines his mission as, "to enable people to make changes in their thinking, their feelings and their behaviour that make an important difference to their performance both at work and in their personal lives". He achieves results for the workers of major corporations like Dell, Yves St.Laurent, J&J, RBI, GM and P&O by using a process of business coaching using NLP Techniques.