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Why NLP is Vital for Coaching

NLP or Neuro Linguistic Programming was created in the mid-1970’s by Richard Bander and John Grinder, when they realised that the way that people communicate has a massive effect on their inner mental reactions. Their methods were refined and are now taught all over the globe.

NLP looks not only at how we communicate, but at how we create our values, beliefs and inner emotional states. Our entire reality is constructed from what we experience and what we believe. For one person, a traffic jam on the way to work is a disaster – it makes them angry, stressed and upset. For another person, it is no big deal – they can simply turn up the music and relax. Why do different people react so differently to different situations? Because of what their inner realities are like.

Coaching focuses on helping people to create the life that they want through a combination of setting goals and changing the way they think. Goals won’t be met if the client believes, deep down, that they are incapable or unworthy of getting what they want, and so coaches need to delve deep into the mind of their client. NLP is essential for a Coach to be able to effective achieve this.

By using NLP techniques, a Coach can look at the unique way that their client’s inner world is created and understand them better. NLP is vital in helping Coaches to understand the interaction between their client’s goals, beliefs and values. By listening carefully to the language that their clients use, an NLP Coach can pick up on things that clients might not even be aware of.

NLP teaches several ways of building rapport – for example, matching and mirroring body language, and listening for their clients preferred representational systems ie whether a client uses mostly visual, auditory or kinaesthetic language. By matching their speech to fit the preferred representational system and using open, warm body language, coaches who utilise NLP can create better rapport with their clients. This is critical in gaining a client’s trust, which means that they are more likely to open up and work effectively with their NLP Coach.

NLP techniques are powerful and effective coaching methods – many NLP techniques are tailor-made for coaching. There are many techniques – such as visualization or anchoring – that a NLP Coach can use with their clients to help them recall positive, powerful states with volition. Certain techniques – for example, “editing” a memory in the client’s mind so that it takes the charge off of it – are most effective when led by a NLP Coach who knows exactly the right combination of tools and techniques to use with the client to ensure a successful outcome.

A Coach trained in NLP will also clearly understand language and can challenge vague, unspecified language that the client uses – for example, if the client says “People say I should get a job”, the NLP Coach will do able to drill down on that generalisation by asking certain questions eg “Who specifically?” NLP coaches are also trained to speak in ways that maximise coaching efficiency – for example, using presuppositions such as “When are you going to start?” which presuppose the client is going to take action in this case.

Although many coaches do not have formal NLP training, it is highly likely that their coaching training incorporated some NLP techniques. It is recommended that any coach serious about maximising their effectiveness books our NLP Coaching Certification training to add these essential skills to your tool kit.

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NLP Coaching – A New You in 2013 

NLP Coaching wishes you a Happy New Year! In 2013 there will be a large number of people who have started off this year having made their New Year’s resolutions and set their good intentions hoping that 2013 will be better than 2012.

The truth is that for the majority of those people, their good intentions and resolutions will quietly slip by the wayside, as day-to-day life stops them from fulfilling those goals and dreams. They soon discover that this year is no different from the last. This is a common problem.

So how do you create a change for yourself in 2013. I am sure there are things that you want to achieve. What needs to happen to allow you to have the future that you want?

The solution is to discover HOW to think differently about yourself and what you can do. If you want to make a change in 2013 for this year and beyond, then you have to change your thinking. These skills we teach you at our exciting NLP Coaching certification training.

It’s not obvious but your behaviour and motivation is driven by your unconscious thought processes and your goals and outcome, ie what you want to do, are decided using your conscious mind. At our advanced NLP Coaching training, we willl teach the secrets of how to align your unconscious and conscious thought processes to produce the results that you want, consistently.

Maybe it’s time for you to do things in a different way, to step out of your comfort zone and create a change and be fully supported in making that change. If that’s true for you our NLP Coaching program is the right choice for you because we will share with you everything you need to know to change your thinking and your behaviour to create the life that you want.

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NLP Coaching is vital for creating change because lots of people are totally unaware of the way their beliefs, values and attitudes drive their results and the quality of their lives. All too often, people in today’s society will tell you all the “good reasons” why they didn’t do what they wanted to do, why they don’t have the things they want to have or why they are not being the person they truly want to be. In NLP Coaching we realise that in life you either have reasons (or excuses) OR you have results. You can’t have both, by the way. This is exactly why coaching and particularly NLP Coaching is a fast growing and booming industry across the globe. There are so many people who are dissatisified with their lives, they are looking for the answers and they need NLP Coaching.

Jay Conrad Levinson in the article “The Amazing Growth of Coaching” said that “every world champion has had a coach”.

It’s true and to give you an idea of how popular NLP Coaching is these days, these are some of the many individuals that we know who  use a Personal Coach to assist them to improve their results, create change and boost their performance: Professional athletes, film stars, CEO’s, business managers and many of the world’s leaders in politics have a personal coaches to provide support, pinpoint limitations and assist them to eliminate any limitations, also they offer sound advice in the highly competitivevsociety that we live in.

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A key benefit to NLP Coaching is that it provides you with a proven system that gives you tools  and techniques for painless, fast, effective change. The tools we’ll share with you at our expert NLP Coaching Training  are the most effective that exist today and our purpose is to make them available to YOU to improve your life, health, relationships, income and career.

We have lots of people, just like you, who come and join our NLP Coaching Trainings each year and one of the popular reasons that people want to learn NLP with us is because they want to achieve greater success and fulfilment in their personal life and also in their careers. We know that you are seeking new ways to make use of your full potential and get rid of the limitations and blocks that have prevented you from achieving your goals and desired outcomes. We know that helping others to do the same is very satisfying and highly rewarding.

With NLP Coaching we know that establishing emotional balance and positive emotions have a direct relationship with an individuals ability to be effective, productive and resourceful.

With the expertise in NLP, Time Line Therapy™ techniques, and Hypnosis together produce an incredibly powerful set of tools and techniques that allow you as the NLP Coach to assist yourself and your clients to take action towards achieving all that you want. NLP Coaching provides a brilliant  framework for the NLP Coach to support the Client in taking responsibility for their results, by changing their focus into powerful, positive, resourceful states. To provide the Client with access to their own inner power, self confidence, self reliance and  decisiveness using NLP, Time Line Therapy™, and Hypnosis.

NLP Coach Certification is a vital component of our complete NLP Practitioner Certification Program. (Including NLP, Time Line Therapy™, Hypnosis & NLP Coaching)  The NLP Master Coach Certification is also a key element of our NLP Master Practitioner Certification Program. ( Including NLP, Time Line Therapy™, Hypnosis and NLP Master Coach.) If you have trained with another NLP Training Provider and would like to qualify as an NLP Coach or NLP Master Coach with Mind Training Systems, we have a special upgrade option available for you, give us a call and we can answer your questions. Our Office Number is 01483 211 222

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In NLP Coaching we realise the importance of positive self-esteem, let’s take  look at how this works:

Feeling good about yourself affects every area of your life. It makes the world seem brighter and more optimistic, and problems are easier to handle and overcome. This cheery disposition not only makes life more fun, but it also improves relationships.

Positive self-esteem leads to positive couple esteem, because partners feel worthy of love and have both the confidence to receive love from their partners and the resources to love in return.

How you feel has a direct and an indirect impact on your partner. Moods are very contagious, so if one person’s feeling happy, the other’s more likely to feel happy too. But if one person’s feeling low and unable to cope with life, this can contaminate the relationship, leaving the partner feeling unhappy and struggling to cope as well. In a good relationship, a partner tries to lift the other’s spirits, providing support and care as he goes through a difficult time. But if the root of the problem is low self-esteem, then this can leave your partner feeling helpless, because nothing he says or does seems to help.

Low self-esteem has its roots in the past. Negative messages from others and negative experiences damage who you think you are. When you have low self-esteem, you spend much of your time reflecting on those things rather than on the good things that are happening now. This means that even though life may be good in the present, someone with low self-esteem feels stuck in the past. And no relationship can move forwards when one partner’s looking backwards all the time.

A person with low self-esteem is also more likely to feel dependent on his partner. He relies on his partner to feel okay about himself. If the person feels unworthy of love, he can unwittingly make it his partner’s job to continually prove that he’s loved. He needs constant reassurance, but because the problem’s within himself, not within the relationship, the partner can never make him feel better, so he can become increasingly resentful because his needs aren’t being met. The partner with healthy esteem can feel drained and helpless and unable to voice his own needs.

A lot of problems within a relationship have their roots in low self-esteem for one or both partners. On the surface, the problem may seem to be something else entirely, like arguments about not spending enough time together, not sharing housework, differences in sexual desire, or jealousy. But underpinning these apparent difficulties is often a much deeper anxiety about not being loved, desired or respected.

Low self-esteem is often accompanied by low self-confidence, which can lead to bad relationship choices. When esteem is high, you make decisions based on what leads to pleasure rather than what alleviates the pain of low self-worth. So someone with positive self-esteem is more open to cherish and embrace the love of a committed partner, or to decide to improve an aspect of a relationship that isn’t going well. Or the person may make a decision to leave a relationship that isn’t working. Someone with low self-esteem may find himself stuck in a relationship that’s unfulfilling, unhappy or even abusive, because he thinks either that he deserves this kind of relationship or that he can never find someone better.

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Thanks for taking the time to have a look through our NLP Coaching webpage. So I guess you are here having a look around this website and are interested to understand more about NLP. This article will give you some insights into NLP which is an extensive subject hence the reason we teach it at two levels. The NLP Coaching Practitioner Training and then the NLP Master Coaching Practitioner Training. By attending both of these trainings you will ensure that you have the full body of knowledge that is NLP. If you want to skip ahead and have a look at the content of both these NLP courses, check out our sister website Mind Training Systems where you will find details about all our various programmes. Or you can stay here with me and we’ll have a look at a brief overview of what NLP Coaching has to offer you.

NLP or Neuro Linguistic Programming is becoming the backbone of how many coaches work these days. In fact when you think about it, most people are involved in coaching in some area of their life. Admittedly there is the option to be a NLP Coach as a career. However many people use the skills they learn at our NLP Coaching training to coach in many different contexts, we have managers who want to use the kills with their staff. We have sales people who want to improve their results. Teachers and Trainers who want to use the skills in an educational or training setting. Parents who want to help their kids come to our trainings, as well as Doctors, Sports Coaches, Psychologists, Celebrities…..the list is vast!

The tools and techniques of NLP are based on discovering what works well eg behaviour, thinkings & communication. Then formalising those findings in such a way to be able to replicate what worked well. So you can see already that NLP is useful from a personal development point of view too.

NLP Coaching also contains techniques that open up new options for the individual as well, which means that rather living a limited existance, they can see and understand that they have more choices available to them. It’s an exciting revelation to discover! We like options!! So in discovering that there are more choices available, this can transform an individual (and/or business) by showing them options to maximise their potential and thus achieve greater success.

In NLP Coaching, you learn to art and science of identifying and studying patterns (which could be strategies, communication, behaviours etc) of excellence. Imagine if you could identify the patterns of excellence, that produce fantastic results, from the world’s most successful people, then transport those patterns and re-programme your thinking to operate in the same way and produce the same fantastic results. Would that be useful to you!!?!?

As I said earlier more and more Coaches and Therapists are utilising NLP Coaching these days to increase the results they are getting with their clients. It appears that without NLP Coaching, a Coaches effectiveness can be limited. Indeed Richard Bandler said something that was very interesting, he said, “It’s about teaching people to run their own brains so they don’t need others to do it for them!”

I like that statement because what it says is that NLP Coaching is totally about EMPOWERMENT. So that the individual doesn’t become reliant on other people or organisations to be able to live a happy and fulfilled life. Instead NLP Coaching promotes that the life of the individual should be enriched, giving them choices as to what they can do, what they can have and who they can be. Perceiving the world in a new way, a way that opens up new options.

NLP Coaching contains a precision based set of tools and techniques that opens up creative avenues to your success. You may have already discovered that there are heaps of books, CDs, DVD’s You Tube clips available on NLP and yes they are useful as part of the learning process. However, attending our NLP Coaching training will bring you the very best experience of learning NLP as we share with you, how to put it all together and ensure that you really do get how to use it. That’s the difference booking onto one of our exciting NLP Coaching trainings makes – together we will go through all the techniques, answer all your questions and ensure that you fully know how to use it to get results.

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Would it be useful to discover how to think in a way that makes best use of your resources?

NLP Coaching provides you with a clear and proven process utilising tools and techniques for fast, effective and sustainable change.

How you utilise your thinking and your resources ie your time and your energy influences how productive you are on a day to day basis. You can develop your thinking to be able to get the most and the best from your resources while enjoying the process of achieving it.

What you need is to develop certain characteristics or qualities that will allow you to do this:

Curiosity – Having a curious mind and an ability to look for and question to discover new resources, insights or new ways to do things

Motivation – Develop your motivation and discover how to stay motivated. It’s a useful skill we teach you at our NLP Coaching trainings. Motivation gives you to get up and go to progress and improve yourself and what you are doing.

Create a Vision -  In your mind’s eye create a vision of what your outcome looks like, sounds like, feels like. What will you be saying to yourslef when you achieve it? This allows you to maintain focus towards your goal and makes it’s easier to accomplish.

Critical Thinking –  This means that you have to develop the skill in looking at a situation with as much objectivity as possible, this is where knowing about Perceptual Positions from our NLP Coaching course, is particularly useful. You can view a situation in a multi dimensional way and therefore pay attention to all of the information you need to achieve your outcome.

Confidence – Having confidence in your abilities and know that you can achieve anything that you want. We can teach you how to tap into your hidden resources and allow you to reach your full potential.

Will – Develop your will or your will power. You must be prepared to look for the solutions to any obstacles or challenges that you face on your path to success. That takes will power to succeed.

A Positive attitude – Your attitude is another important factor. Rarely do people who are habitually negative achieve their dreams. You need to discover how to harness the power from developing and maintaining a positive attitude that is focussed on your success!

An Open-mind – It’s really important that you keep an open mind. In NLP Coaching we believe that the person who has the most flexibility in their communication and their thinking will control the situation. So you can control you ability to achieve a goal by being open to generating new ideas or ways of achieving it.

Balance – We must maintain balance in all areas of life, that includes taking time to recharge our batteries and resting. This renewed energy can then be ustilised in the accomplishment of our desired outcomes.

These are some of the important factors for developing and enhancing your mind set to become more productive.

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NLP Coaching – NLP in action

The NLP Model demonstrates that we experience the world through our five senses: sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. Because there is so much continuous information coming in our direction we consciously and unconsciously delete what we don’t want to pay attention to. We filter the remaining data based on our past experiences, values and beliefs. What we end up with is incomplete and inaccurate because some of the original input has been deleted altogether and the rest has been generalized or distorted. The filtered information forms our internal map, which influences our physiology and ‘state of being’. This in turn affects our behaviour.

Interesting business, after some initial reservations, has strong embraced NLP, and NLP Coaching concepts and processes now form the backbone of many company training programmes. Because of its practical focus on finding what’s useful and putting it into action, it can enable individuals and teams to achieve their peak performance in areas as diverse as management, sales, communication, new product development and coaching.

Because the principles of NLP can benefit virtually any area of enterprise, it’s now used in many areas including education, health and sport.

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But it’s the personal benefits of learning about NLP that hold the key to its increasing success. Many people from  around the world attend our NLP Coaching training courses and as a result  are living their dreams. What will it do for you? Here are just a few of the benefits you can expect. It will:

• help you know what you want and how to get it

• help you to build stronger, deeper relationships

• enhance your self-confidence and self-esteem

• strengthen your ability to connect with others

• put you in the driving seat of your life

• enable you to communicate more effectively and persuasively

• help you to perform at your best for more of the time

• change limiting beliefs about yourself and the world

• enable you to be even more creative

• help you to control the way you think, feel and act

• enable you to accomplish your personal and professional goals

And that’s just for starters. Yes, really. No kidding. NLP works. This is one time when you can believe the hype! By taking control of your own thoughts you can banish negative thinking and achieve more than you ever thought possible.

As we change our memories, our perceptions, our beliefs and our thoughts, so we are able to choose new ways of acting and behaving that allow us to live the life we want.

And that’s the power of NLP Coaching.

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During our exciting NLP Coaching Certification Training we cover in details why anchoring is such an important technique for you to use for yourself and also with your clients. Plus what anchoring is and how specifically to do it. In this article I’m going to give you an overview of what the 4 steps are in anchoring.

Let’s start by defining anchoring. An anchor occurs any time a person is in an intense, associated state. If at the peak of that state or experience a specific stimulus is consistently applied, the state and the specific stimulus become linked neurologically. That means that the state can be continually produced by setting off the stimulus.

These are the Four steps in anchoring:

1. Put the person into state. You can use a spontaneous, naturally occurring state, or an remembered or recalled state (“Can you remember a time…”) What’s important is that the person is fully associated into that state and the state is intense and congruent.

This is some really great, specific language to have the person remember or recall an associated, intense and congruent state. In this example we’ve put “X’d”, obviously you’d know the resource state that you would want them to recall eg Motivation, Confidence etc. “Can you remember a time when you were totally X’d? Can you remember a specific time? As you go back to that time, can you step into your body and see what you saw, hear what you heard, and feel the feelings of being totally X’d?”

Be aware that people go into states at different rates. As the coach, it’s really important that you calibrate on the state, so that you anchor the state that you want to anchor and it’s a state that the person is fully associated to.

2. Anchor the state when the person is at the peak of the state by providing a specific stimulus. Notice that as the state begins to peak, that’s when the anchor should be applied. It should start slightly before, and end right at the peak or slightly before the end of the peak. An anchor should be applied for from between 5 to 15 seconds. When you are using a physiological (kinesthetic) anchor eg anchoring on the person’s knuckle for example, you would hold the touch up to 15 seconds.

3. Now change the person’s state. Break the state they are in and have them get out of that state. You can break state easily by saying something like, “do you smell coffee?” It just causes they to think about something else in that moment.

4. Evoke the state by setting off the anchor. You do this in the exactly the same way as you applied it and you’ll discover that they go back into that state.

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NLP Coaching – Introduction to Rapport

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Consider this for a moment. In life, if there is something that you want to get, or if there’s something that you need, then it’s possible that you will require someone to help you to get it.  This is true whether you’re a teacher, a sales consultant or even a builder. Regardless of what you do, the ability to develop and maintain rapport with a specific person or even with a room full of people from various backgrounds will allow you to get what you want. Creating rapport with someone will allow you to do anything. So, rapport is probably the most important skills on the planet and it’s something that you can learn how to do with volition at our exciting NLP Coaching training.

The basis of rapport is that when people are like each other, they like each other. When you like someone, you are willing to help them to have whatever they want. Back in in 1970′s professors at the University of Pennsylvania conducted a study into communication and they found that 38% of all communication is tone of voice, and 55% is physiology and about 7% is words. So, what they concluded was that most human communication is actually outside of our conscious awareness. That means that there is a tremendous opportunity that exists for communication outside of “normal channels” and that is essentially what rapport is all about.

Because rapport is natural some people think it can not be learnt, however at our NLP Coaching training you will discover that there are numerous ways that rapport skills can be enhanced. In basic terms rapport involves behaving more like the other person, using your sensory
acuity skills to pay attention to what they’re doing and saying.

As we’ve already identified, only a small part of human communication is achieved through what we say and the words we use. The rest is non-verbal: gestures, facial expressions, posture, eye movements, breathing, and also voice qualities such as tone, pitch and tempo.

We can utilise these non verbal communication channels to establish and build rapport through the process of mirroring and matching them. Techniques that you will discover at NLP Coaching.

Matching is the process of observing someone and then behaving like them, such as sitting in the same way or using similar gestures.

Mirroring is, as it suggests, creating a mirror image of what the person is doing.

Mirroring and matching is done out of the conscious awareness of the other person. If it is in their awareness then it will look like you are mimicking them. So if the other person does something and you follow straight afterwards they’ll probably notice. You might get away with it once, but if you do it repeatedly they’re sure to pick it up. If you wait 20-30 seconds it’s likely to go unnoticed

Here are some things you can match:

Posture - where you adjust your stance or your whole seated body to match another person’s. For example note the angle of their spine, the tilt of their head etc

Gesture  - match their gestures

Facial Expressions – smiling, blinking, eye direction

Breathing – powerful way of building deep rapport is to matching the rate and location of the other person’s breathing.

There is a detailed list of ways to build rapport that we will go through at NLP Coaching.

Just for fun, next time you’re in a cafe, restaurant, bar or at the office, take the opportunity to observe the people around you. What do you notice as people greet each other, converse and generally interact? Focus on one group and watch how things develop. See how many of the behaviours you can identify on the list we gave you. Who is matching who? How do you know?

There are many applications for using rapport. It allows you to influence others to see things your way, resolve conflicts, negotiate win-win deals, coach other people to fulfil their potential, and enhance almost any interaction, both personal and professional.

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Since the 1970’s, NLP or Neuro Linguistic Programming, has become recognised as an proven technology for taking control of your life. Learning NLP and NLP Coaching techniques provides you with a skill set that you can use to overcome any self-made obstacles and  allows you to free yourself from any limiting beliefs. That’s exciting because that means you can create the success and happiness that you deserve in your life.

There are a number of core principles in NLP and in NLP Coaching that when you embrace them will give you the thinking you need to achieve the results in life that you want.

The first important principle is having clarity. Knowing what it is that you want and being specific in knowing what you want. Many people know what they don’t want but few spend time figuring out exactly what it is that they DO want. Hazy ideas of having more money or being a better partner or parent are fairly vague. It’s important to get specific to get a clarity on what it is you want to achieve. With NLP Coaching techniques it becomes easy to work out this out and then focus on your desired outcome. Instead of getting stuck in a problem state or scenario, NLP and NLP Coaching assists you to quickly learn focus your thoughts and actions on specific outcomes.

Participating in our NLP Coaching training provides you with an exciting opportunity to change your beliefs and thinking patterns in a way that is more productive.  Plus with a clear outcome, you be in a position where you can organize your thinking so that your success does not depend on someone else’s behaviour, or have any negative intentions towards others.

The second important NLP Coaching principle is called Sensory Acuity. NLP and NLP Coaching gives you the opportuity to create a road map to your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. You need to tune into and be aware at all times of where on this map you are, and how much farther you need to travel in order to achieve your outcome. This will help you stay on track and also to remain positive and motivated. For example, lots of people will set a vague goal such as losing weight. Then they get side tracked or disappointed and give up because they did not set up a measurable system of goals to track their progresss. NLP Coaching helps you stay focused on the destination with setting goals and outcomes that are specific, measurable, achieveable, realistic and towards what you want.

The third principle in NLP Coaching is essential for keeping on track. It’s having behaviourial flexibility – this is critical for successful reaching your goal. Think of all the people you know who repeat the same behaviour over and over and over again expecting different results. If your methods of achieving our desired outcome is not working, then you need to change what you are doing and do it in a different way. It’s not immediately obvious to some people but to create a change, you’ve got to change something.

The fourth principle is taking action. You know people who talk a good game but when it comes down to it, the reality is that they don’t take any action to create the thing they were talking about. What I love about NLP and particularly NLP Coaching is that its focus is on taking immediate action  and propels you towards your desired outcome and objective thus you can easily create a change for yourself.

Applying these exciting NLP Coaching principles allows you to take control of the direction of your life and achieve the happiness and success you truly deserve.

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