NLP

 

"I can't believe I'm 35 and only learning this now. NLP should be taught in schools!"

- Glenda Russell (NLP Practitioner 2010)

 

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Why do you want to learn NLP?

 

What is NLP?

 

How can you learn NLP?

 

What if you learn NLP?

Why do you want to learn NLP?

 

The answer to this question is quite personal. However, when you have the answer you will be better prepared to select the right NLP training for you.

 

Historically, there are four main reasons why you would want to learn NLP:

 

1. Personal Development
2. Add skills to your therapeutic/coaching career
3. Add skills to your training/teaching/presenting career
4. Develop more effective communication, influencing and negotiation skills for business

 

In practice, most people train in NLP for more than one of these reasons. When you have identified your own reasons then you'll know what level of NLP training you want to do.

Personal Development
In learning NLP you go through a process of self-exploration. Before being able to help or influence others you first of all need to know who you are and how you get results in your own life. Then you need to be able to apply all your learning to produce consistently good results for yourself.

 

To acquire the NLP tools and methodologies you first of all need to experience them. So, it is difficult to avoid learning more about yourself along the way. The very nature of learning means that you change.

Therapy/Coaching
NLP focuses mainly on how we structure our world. We are not so much concerned about the content of someone else's problems as to how they are creating and maintaining those problems in their life.

 

The NLP mindset and toolbox enables you as a coach or therapist to identify patterns in your client's behavior and to design interventions that empower your clients to break through and break free from whatever is holding them back.

 

So, whether this is dealing with stuff from the past or creating more of what your client wants in the future, NLP can get outstanding results.

 

It also has the potential to help prevent the onset of chronic illnesses and support the body heal itself.

Training/Teaching/Presenting
As a trainer, teacher or presenter you are solely responsible for the results you get when standing in front of a group of people. Many trainers and presenters often attempt to blame the group for their own inability to communicate effectively.

 

Amongst other things, NLP gives you the skills to present on many learning levels to any group of people, to create and maintain rapport, to manage your own state and cope with anything unexpected, to ensure that your participants are in a good state and that energy levels are high.

Business
Most problems in organizations can be traced back to poor communication. So many people feel constantly stressed, overwhelmed, lacking in energy, annoyed by colleagues, and the list goes on. People live in states of fear, anxiety and worry. Some even find that their confidence disappears. None of these conditions are good for you, your colleagues or your health.

NLP outdoes virtually all other approaches when an organization is going through change. There are NLP tools to assist you with such common organization challenges such as:

• Leadership development
• Employee engagement
• Change management
• Organizational design
• Team development
• Motivation
• Negotiation (sales & purchasing)
• Strategic planning
• Selection & interviewing
• Appraisals
• Creativity & innovation
• Sales

 

There's probably no life skills course that is more effective than an NLP Practitioner Training. We've heard amazing stories of people improving their relationships, skyrocketing their careers and getting more of they want after they attend an NLP training.