Consultancy, research, authoring and editing in the field of business

Effective communication is not just about the words you use, it’s about understanding the way people think - so that your phrases truly work. 


For businesses: 

  • Analyse qualitative data to provide insight into the way your  customers think
  • Guidance on how to phrase communications to match their patterns and preferences

For authors and publishers: 

  • Exquisite editing - preserve your voice and style while enhancing the clarity, logic and structure of your work
  • Original writing for publication

For individuals:

  • Explore your `inner landscape’ of thought via one-to-one coaching
  • Free your mind to find new solutions 

Background:

  • More than 30 years' experience of university research and supervision; writing for publication; consulting to business; and coaching
  • Informed by in-depth knowledge of metaphors, beliefs, presuppositions, motivational patterns, systemic thinking and more within the language people use
  • Accredited in Clean Language and NLP 
  • Centrally involved in pioneering the new field of Clean Language Interviewing

Selected publications

Cairns-Lee H, Lawley J, Tosey P. (2022)

How do you get a good quality answer? Now, that's a good question,

I by IMD

Dec 2022 pp.66-67


For pdf click here


Cairns-Lee H, Lawley J, Tosey P. (2022)

Clean Language Interviewing: Principles and Applications for Researchers and Practitioners, Emerald


Sample chapter here

Cairns-Lee H, Lawley J, Tosey P. Enhancing Researcher Reflexivity About the Influence of Leading Questions in Interviews

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science August 2021

doi:10.1177/00218863211037446


Pre-publication copy here

Tosey, P., Lawley, J. and Meese, R. (2014)

Eliciting Metaphor through Clean Language: an Innovation in Qualitative Research

British Journal of Management

25(3): 629-646.

Tosey, P. and Mathison, J. (2009)

NLP: a Critical Appreciation for Managers and Developers

Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Tosey, P., Sullivan, W. and Meyer, M., (2013)

Clean Sources: Six Metaphors a Minute? University of Surrey (ISBN: 978-1-84469-029-9)

About

Phraseworks Ltd is a private company registered in England & Wales, company number 14652937

Company email address: phraseworks@proton.me

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