John Grinder – NLP Training Trainers

The Essential Skills Group Inc. (ESG) is a national leader in the development of innovative, integrated web applications that test and build essential skills, in both English and French.

To date, our web applications have delivered over 265,000 online assessments and customized learning plans, making ours the most widely-used online essential skills solution in Canada.

Over 800 organizations are current users of our web applications. Our clients include governments, sector councils, associations, First Nations, NGOs and private sector companies from across Canada.

ESG is led by Michael Herzog, MBA and Divona Herzog, MCE and backed by a solid team of IT experts and other specialists.

The need for ESG

There are approximately 12 million Canadians who lack sufficient essential skills. These people face real challenges coping with the demands of a knowledge-based economy. They generally earn less money, are unemployed more often, have more accidents at work and have greater difficulty learning new skills, as compared to those with higher essential skills.We want to make a difference in the lives of these individuals.

• 48% Percentage of Canadians who have insufficient reading skills
• 49% Percentage of Canadians who have insufficient document use skills
• 55% Percentage of Canadians who have insufficient numeracy skills

Skills we assess and develop

• Reading
  The ability to understand reading materials in the form of sentences and paragraphs. We use this skill to scan information, skim for overall meaning, evaluate what we read and integrate information from multiple sources.
• Numeracy
  The ability to use numbers and think in quantitative terms. We use this skill when doing numerical estimating, money math, scheduling and budgeting math and analyzing measurements or data.
• Working with Others
  The ability to work with other workers to carry out tasks. We use this skill when we work as a member of a team or jointly with a partner, and when we engage in supervisory or leadership activities.
• Thinking Skills
  The ability to engage in the process of evaluating ideas or information to reach a rational decision. We use this skill when we solve problems, make decisions, think critically, and plan and organize job tasks.
• Writing
  The ability to write text and documents. We use this skill when we organize, record, document, provide information to persuade, request information from others and justify a request.
• Computer Use
  The ability to use different kinds of computer applications and other related technical tools. We use this skill when we operate cash registers, use word processing software, send emails and create spreadsheets.
• Oral Communication
  The ability to use speech to give and exchange thoughts and information. We use this skill to greet people, take messages, reassure, persuade, seek information and resolve conflicts.
• Document Use
  The ability to perform tasks that involve a variety of information displays such as technical drawings, lists and tables. We use this skill when we read and interpret signs, labels, lists, graphs and charts.

About John Grinder

John Grinder is the co-originator of NLP and one of the greatest thinkers of our lifetime. He has authored 14 books on complex subjects ranging from transformational grammar, family therapy and his creation of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

NLP belongs to John Grinder, maybe not in the literal sense. If you studied the patterns of NLP which were originally developed in the 70’s you will recognize the wisdom of John Grinder flows throughout the early work. John’s work is documented in well over 1000 other educational books on subject matter ranging from specialist NLP matters, psychology, sales, negotiation, management, parenting and accelerated learning.

Dr John Grinder’s work is also the subject matter of well over 1000 NLP public seminars each year, training people over 20,000 people each year around the globe hosted by specialist NLP Trainers. The majority of quality business seminars will now include aspects of John Grinder’s work, which equates to figure of tens of thousands of people learning implicitly from the genius of John Grinder. That figure is growing every year.

John Grinder has devoted his life’s work towards his quest to uncover and present human patterns of excellence, modelled from geniuses in different fields. He created Neuro-Linguistic Programming with Richard Bandler, as a means to investigate and replicate extreme human excellence.

It is these applications of NLP which are taught at the highest level of Corporate Excellence trainings worldwide and to world leaders whether implicitly or explicitly.

With his partner Carmen, John Grinder is continually exploring new territories and continually updates his work, introducing new models of excellence and vastly updated models of his and Bandlers early work.

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