Nuwan Samarapathi, one of the leading NLP focused corporate and personal development trainers in the country, explains here about NLP Neuro Linguistic Programming training and the benefits of it.
Nuwan has been a researcher in the field of personal development and motivation for many years. His career spans from a young junior sales personnel to a high performing marketing strategist and a manger within a brief timeframe. Further to his experience in the field of Sales and Marketing for over 17 years, he acquired a wealth of experiential and academic knowledge while living in Australia for over 10 years specializing in various areas of Sales and Marketing, working for International and multinational organizations.
 Nuwan is also an author of two books on personal development, and his book "Wisdom For Challenging Times" is popular among national and international audiences. Nuwan has been a regular writer to our paper in the past years and we talked with him about his journey so far and his future directions.
What made you become a trainer?
Prior to leaving for Australia, I was working with Union Assurance as a Marketing Executive. There I had a team of seventy five (75) staff to support and manage but I always managed to find a time to do training programmes whenever I could. I was well known for my oratory skills in school days and was a member of my school (D.S. Senanayake College) debating team. In addition to that, I was much interested in acting and theatre from a very young age and started learning about acting/directing and was much involved in theatre during school days. I directed my début stage play when I was 21. I am also a qualified (graded) radio presenter at SLBC. May be all these factors have contributed to me taking my professional and academic qualifications to another level and becoming a full time trainer today.
 What are your specialized areas in training?
After completing a specialized degree in Marketing at Deakin University in Australia, I had the opportunity of working in some of the largest corporations in Melbourne, linked to banking, telecommunication, and insurance sectors. But at the same time I got much interested in Personal Development and Motivational techniques. So I started reading and researching in to that area.
That is when I decided to work towards a professional qualification in NLP and eventually obtained the qualification of Master Practitioner in NLP. Today I combine NLP with the much needed skills in the corporate sector such as customer service, sales, leadership, strategic thinking, etc. Also, I read widely and always keep myself up-to-date with the contemporary thinking and techniques in the sector.
So, to answer your question, with my local and International experience and knowledge, my company (ProMinds) specializes in providing trainings under six categories.
- Sales & Customer Service
- Management & Leadership
- Personal Development & Emotional wellbeing
- Productivity & Capacity Building
- Organizational Efficiency and Productivity Enhancement
- Group and Personal Coaching
What is NLP and what are the benefits of it?
NLP stands for Neuro Linguistic Programming. NLP has become a much sought after and widely used technique and set of tools in international corporate world because of the simple yet effective tips it provides can be applied to all dimensions of a person's life, whether it is personal development, interpersonal relations, professional effectiveness and life goal achievement.
 In today's highly competitive business environments, employers are looking for effective methods to motivate and improve the skills and capacity of their staff whether they are working at the grassroots level or making strategic decisions in boardrooms. It is no secret that the 'human factor' that 'make or break' an organization needs support and harnessing. This is where ProMinds comes in. All our concepts, Techniques and products are based on a cutting - edge knowledge base of Human Psychology, Psycho- biology, NLP and Human Resource Management.
Today, in the post-conflict era, Sri Lankan business and service provision sector is growing at astonishing pace, despite the global financial crisis felt by many organizations. Many organizations, in service and business fields as well in the not-for-profit fields, work with us to improve their organizational capacity and meet business targets, and we always work with the senior management to understand and cater for their specific needs.
Regardless of the sector, organization or the type of work they do, participants in our trainings get very engaged and interactive throughout our programmes because they find our style different and unique. Our programmes offer participatory adult-learning techniques,
mind- Expanding NLP techniques, an energizing blend of theatre and drama and also are very interactive.
So, what are your future plans?
Companies no longer see the training budget as a "COST" but as an 'INVESTMENT" because it would increase their productivity, will help them to retain their experienced staff, and in the long run will create abundant prosperity through exploration of human potential and maximization of performance. Believing this, at ProMinds we hold four key concepts at the heart of it: People, Potential, Performance and Prosperity. So, I invite companies and organizations (who are not already in board) to join with us to create positive and progressive change that leads to purpose, achievement, success and fulfillment in individuals and organizations.
Since returning to Sri Lanka, I devoted bulk of my time to development of new training techniques and materials that particularly suit the corporate and socio-economic culture of the country. I consider this as my personal contribution to the training and development sector. Last year I launched two books, one particularly for the Life Insurance sector and second one for the general public - "Wisdom for Challenging Times"- which is gathering momentum both nationally and internationally. Also, among everything, I still find time write regularly to Sinhala and English Newspapers, and until recently to do daily motivational segments in Derana Radio, as I am constantly motivated by the numerous responses I receive from all corners of the country.
I am doing a Book Signing for "Wisdom for Challenging Times" at ODEL in Colombo 7 on Saturday the 8th May (Saturday ; between 10am-2pm) and you can get a signed copy of my book and have a chat with me there. For more details about the book signing and about my programs, please contact me (nuwancs@yahoo.com.au or 0773 66 00 94) .
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