NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) is a set of techniques which are used to have a positive effect on our behaviour and communication. The following article explains the principles, and how these relate to the modern working environment.
Neuro Linguistic Programming consists of 4 operational principles:
NLP Principle 1 - Achievement Planning
The successful application of Neuro Linguistic Programming begins with first establishing what you want to achieve. It is only by doing this that you can successfully put in place a strategic NLP plan. This avoids wandering aimlessly and gives you a focus for your attentions and a strategy for achieving your goals and targets.
NLP Principle 2 - Target Awareness
Once you have an NLP plan in place, it is important to make sure that you are on track towards achieving it. Being aware of exactly where you are is vital in order to address your shortcomings and ensure that you do not stray from the established Neuro Linguistic Programming plan. In sensory terms, awareness relates to making sure that your actions elicit the correct response from your clients or co-workers. Reading people's body language and facial expressions, for example will allow you to establish whether or not your words and actions have the desired effect on your subjects.
NLP Principle 3 - Behavioural Flexibility
In order to achieve your NLP goals, it is important that you have flexibility in your actions and have the ability to vary your behaviour until you get the reaction that you want. It is clear that if what you are doing isn't working, then you need to try something else, so you need to plan for all circumstances and eventualities.
NLP Principle 4 - Take Action
NLP is all about seizing the moment and making positive changes to ones behaviour immediately. After all, the sooner you get started, the sooner you can enjoy the positive benefits of NLP within your organization.
Neuro Linguistic Programming can be used in all sorts of workplace environments. Those involved in sales can use NLP to encourage people to buy, or steer potential customers towards or away from a certain product. It can also be used when dealing with complicated situations or when handling difficult clients. NLP can also be used to help you achieve your career goals.
By thinking positive, and deciding what's important to you, you can work towards reaching your targets.
Now you know more about NLP, how could it help your sales staff and other staff be more productive, and build rapports with customers?
See how NLP can help you sell more effectively, and find out about other Sales Training courses that will help to be a better sales person, at SalesTrainingIntl.com.
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Monday, August 31, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Benefits of NLP Mind Coaching
A whole range of NLP techniques are applicable to coaching, so we will look at one and see how much you can get from a foundation NLP tool.
Perceptual Positions an NLP Technique
Perceptual positions is an NLP exercise geared to looking at a situation from multiple perspectives. Any given situation has several different perspectives and different information can be gain from each. The first is obviously your own, the second is the perspective from another person that is involved in the situation and the third is a neutral, unconnected perspective. Each of these positions would give you more information about the situation and the opportunity to influence what is happening. A fuller explanation of perceptual positions can be found on my website.
A Business Coaching Example of Using NLP Techniques
There are many NLP tools that a coach might use in the first instance, but for illustration purposes we will restrict this to just using perceptual positions.
The coach might use this technique for themselves initially to get a flavour of what their client is thinking and, if it is a business context how the business views the situation.
A typical business coaching situation might involve a client who has a new role that they have some doubts over. Perhaps they also don't know how to approach their new team and are unsure about what is expected of them.
You could use Perceptual Positions for every part of this situation.
Getting the client to look at the situation from the perspective of their new boss and doing a skills analysis from this perspective would give them confidence. They were employed for the role therefore someone has faith in them and seeing their skills from this perspective will help.
Seeing the role from the perspective of the job and the organisations might yield clues as to direction, goals expectations.
Looking at the new team's perspective and then getting the client to plan their approach from this and the organisation's perspective might give them a different view of how to meet, motivate set expectations with the new team.
Also, getting the client to imagine a future version of themselves that is happy, comfortable and settled in the role may help. But what if you took a neutral, observer perspective on the difference between the two and develop the action plan to take you from the current state to the future state?
Coaching using NLP Techniques
The illustration above was just to demonstrate how a foundation level NLP Tool could be used in multiple ways in a single coaching situation. The reality is that there are many powerful NLP Techniques a good coach will employ for you to get results.
As an example, whatever you happen to be doing there is an ideal frame of mind associated with it. Athletes recognise this as being in the zone or a flow state. Any good coach will have a coach state they have anchored and can fire off to be in the right frame of mind to assist you as a client. If appropriate they could be showing you how to do the same for your role.
A whole range of NLP techniques are applicable to coaching, so we will look at one and see how much you can get from a foundation NLP tool.
The Real Power of NLP Coaching Techniques
Language (both verbal and non verbal) binds the relationship between coach and client. But language is just a filter on our thoughts and impacts how we represent the world to ourselves.
A good coach is trained to notice these filters in themselves and others and then can open or restrict them to provide a better frame on the situation. A good NLP Practitioner Course will show you how to do that and much more.
This is why all good coaches study NLP.
My expectations of a good NLP Business Coach to that coaching situation described above would be to linguistically given you change strategies, installed empowering beliefs and set pre-frames that eliminate self doubt before you have even started the session. All of a saddened you might find yourself filling in the detail and getting results within a framework of fun coaching session.
Anyone interested in getting great performance out of themselves should consider a coach...but if you are unreasonable, impatient and want those results faster then a NLP Coach is a serious consideration.
Anyone interested in getting great performance out of themselves should consider a coach...but if you are unreasonable, impatient and want those results faster then a NLP Coach is a serious consideration.
Rintu Basu is the only NLP and Persuasion Trainer in the UK. Having worked with businesses, the police service and the financial sector. His latest venture is developing NLP in Scotland through good quality public NLP training courses as well as an exclusive NLP Coaching practice.
I'd love to read your comments below…
Perceptual Positions an NLP Technique
Perceptual positions is an NLP exercise geared to looking at a situation from multiple perspectives. Any given situation has several different perspectives and different information can be gain from each. The first is obviously your own, the second is the perspective from another person that is involved in the situation and the third is a neutral, unconnected perspective. Each of these positions would give you more information about the situation and the opportunity to influence what is happening. A fuller explanation of perceptual positions can be found on my website.
A Business Coaching Example of Using NLP Techniques
There are many NLP tools that a coach might use in the first instance, but for illustration purposes we will restrict this to just using perceptual positions.
The coach might use this technique for themselves initially to get a flavour of what their client is thinking and, if it is a business context how the business views the situation.
A typical business coaching situation might involve a client who has a new role that they have some doubts over. Perhaps they also don't know how to approach their new team and are unsure about what is expected of them.
You could use Perceptual Positions for every part of this situation.
Getting the client to look at the situation from the perspective of their new boss and doing a skills analysis from this perspective would give them confidence. They were employed for the role therefore someone has faith in them and seeing their skills from this perspective will help.
Seeing the role from the perspective of the job and the organisations might yield clues as to direction, goals expectations.
Looking at the new team's perspective and then getting the client to plan their approach from this and the organisation's perspective might give them a different view of how to meet, motivate set expectations with the new team.
Also, getting the client to imagine a future version of themselves that is happy, comfortable and settled in the role may help. But what if you took a neutral, observer perspective on the difference between the two and develop the action plan to take you from the current state to the future state?
Coaching using NLP Techniques
The illustration above was just to demonstrate how a foundation level NLP Tool could be used in multiple ways in a single coaching situation. The reality is that there are many powerful NLP Techniques a good coach will employ for you to get results.
As an example, whatever you happen to be doing there is an ideal frame of mind associated with it. Athletes recognise this as being in the zone or a flow state. Any good coach will have a coach state they have anchored and can fire off to be in the right frame of mind to assist you as a client. If appropriate they could be showing you how to do the same for your role.
A whole range of NLP techniques are applicable to coaching, so we will look at one and see how much you can get from a foundation NLP tool.
The Real Power of NLP Coaching Techniques
Language (both verbal and non verbal) binds the relationship between coach and client. But language is just a filter on our thoughts and impacts how we represent the world to ourselves.
A good coach is trained to notice these filters in themselves and others and then can open or restrict them to provide a better frame on the situation. A good NLP Practitioner Course will show you how to do that and much more.
This is why all good coaches study NLP.
My expectations of a good NLP Business Coach to that coaching situation described above would be to linguistically given you change strategies, installed empowering beliefs and set pre-frames that eliminate self doubt before you have even started the session. All of a saddened you might find yourself filling in the detail and getting results within a framework of fun coaching session.
Anyone interested in getting great performance out of themselves should consider a coach...but if you are unreasonable, impatient and want those results faster then a NLP Coach is a serious consideration.
Anyone interested in getting great performance out of themselves should consider a coach...but if you are unreasonable, impatient and want those results faster then a NLP Coach is a serious consideration.
Rintu Basu is the only NLP and Persuasion Trainer in the UK. Having worked with businesses, the police service and the financial sector. His latest venture is developing NLP in Scotland through good quality public NLP training courses as well as an exclusive NLP Coaching practice.
I'd love to read your comments below…
Transforming Your Life with NLP Mind Coaching
The Power to transform lives, NLP Mind Coaching is a tool for Personal Development.
Do you allow negative thoughts and emotions to creep into your mind?
What about negative thoughts about your financial future
Or you maybe worried about the economic climate
Negative emotions like:
I will never loose that weight
I will never have that perfect partner in my life
Anger, Sadness, Guilt,
Do you have any Behaviour you no longer want to do?
Overeating
Nail biting
Cheating on your spouse
Gambling
How would you like a way to replace these negative thoughts and emotions and unwanted behaviours?
With positive things, positive thoughts, positive behaviours
Our bodies were created to produce results based on what we focus on.
NLP Mind Coaching is about changing the thoughts we have, stop thinking about what we don’t want and start thinking about what we do want, now
What do you really want?
Take the time to focus with all your energy on what you want.
Even when you think things may go wrong, if you follow this thinking you are immediately of target to what you really want.
With NLP Mind Coaching I will reveal to you a way you can let go of all your negative emotions from the past.
NLP is a technology and a bunch of techniques on how your mind works.
http://www.nlpmindcoach.com
I'd love to read your comments below…
Do you allow negative thoughts and emotions to creep into your mind?
What about negative thoughts about your financial future
Or you maybe worried about the economic climate
Negative emotions like:
I will never loose that weight
I will never have that perfect partner in my life
Anger, Sadness, Guilt,
Do you have any Behaviour you no longer want to do?
Overeating
Nail biting
Cheating on your spouse
Gambling
How would you like a way to replace these negative thoughts and emotions and unwanted behaviours?
With positive things, positive thoughts, positive behaviours
Our bodies were created to produce results based on what we focus on.
NLP Mind Coaching is about changing the thoughts we have, stop thinking about what we don’t want and start thinking about what we do want, now
What do you really want?
Take the time to focus with all your energy on what you want.
Even when you think things may go wrong, if you follow this thinking you are immediately of target to what you really want.
With NLP Mind Coaching I will reveal to you a way you can let go of all your negative emotions from the past.
NLP is a technology and a bunch of techniques on how your mind works.
http://www.nlpmindcoach.com
I'd love to read your comments below…
Monday, August 3, 2009
Positive Changes with NLP Mind Coaching - Mark J Holland
http://www.nlpmindcoach.com/ -
Building confidence - Increased self-awareness - Improved goal
setting - Live a more balanced life - Lower stress levels - Increased self-confidence - Enhanced communication skills - Improved project completion - Better relationships at work - Fuller family relationships - Ability to enjoy life more - Career Advancement - Anxiety, panic and fears - Weight loss - Stress management - Sleep disturbances - Habit control - Pain management - Academic performance - Sporting performance - Motivation and creativity.
http://www.nlpmindcoach.com/
I'd love to read your comments below…
Building confidence - Increased self-awareness - Improved goal
setting - Live a more balanced life - Lower stress levels - Increased self-confidence - Enhanced communication skills - Improved project completion - Better relationships at work - Fuller family relationships - Ability to enjoy life more - Career Advancement - Anxiety, panic and fears - Weight loss - Stress management - Sleep disturbances - Habit control - Pain management - Academic performance - Sporting performance - Motivation and creativity.
http://www.nlpmindcoach.com/
I'd love to read your comments below…
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