1) Neuro Linguistic Programming has a reputation for assisting personal development by working at the deepest level of the Psyche (depending on who is delivering the course, of course).
2) NLP has been born out of modelling the most prominent leaders of change in various contexts, including family therapy (Virginia Satir), Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy and Human Values (Milton Eriksson), and Anchoring (Williaml Twitmire and Ivan Pavlov).
3) NLP is an art and a science, so it hasn’t become so rigid as to be aloof to the masses. Anyone can get access to becoming trained and there are many ways of using NLP – it is open and accessible to all industries and professions.

How does NLP work with self development?

In an NLP training (I can talk for NLP World and perhaps a few others), you’ll get the chance to make a quantum leap in your ability to clear out old issues that have interfered with your energy path. This equates to having the chance to evolve and develop yourself.

Of course, if you are becoming a practitioner of NLP, you are being trained to assist others and begin mastery with language, yet in this week (or four days), you’ll start to realise that all your memories can be redefined and reframed to assist you, rather than the old emotions on them dictating your moods in certain situations.

Also you begin to see that limiting beliefs can be taken away, phobias, habits and ideas can be reformed giving you the energy back that was taken away with them.

The self development you can get with these changes more than qualify as a huge quantum leap in your own personal evolution.

How does NLP Work?

NLP has a beginning in experimental research into how the brain and body makes things ‘real’; bad and good! How do we make illness and how do we make problems….and how do some people create miracles while others suffer poverty consciousness?

From this experimental approach, techniques came to the fore and these techniques became what we now call NLP. Yet the techniques were the result of experimenting!

So when you take an NLP training, the training should focus on how you go about experimenting with the mind, not showing you xyz techniques. For instance, we all have what’s called an internal world, mostly made of sounds, feelings and pictures (plus self talk). We call that the VAKOG for short (Visual, audio, kinesthetic and to a lesser extent, olfactory and gustatory). This inner world informs you and I what is good bad, valuable, or avoidable. It’s in the form of coding and very unconscious.

A good NLP training will teach a delegate how to access this internal world and be able to aid a client to a positive result by moving the inner world or VAKOG to what the client wants inside. I have seen some trainers simply showing their delegates the three techniques (called submodalities) to change this inner world without showing them the basic understanding of how this all works. The problem being is that if the three techniques don’t work, the Practitioner will be stumped!

So that’s why we call NLP an art AND a science. And that’s why NLP lives in the industry of self development – because you can’t work with an NLP practitioner (a well trained one) without actually changing some part of your life!

Training you in Neuro linguistic Programming is just the start of what could be the beginning of your blossoming career. By completing our training course, you will have been given the tools to start or continue your dream … why leave it there? By giving you step two of your NLP journey – a 3 month membership of ANLP – you will be getting the ability to access a whole network of resources:

• An on-line presence with their profile on www.anlp.org
• Rapport Magazine, the only NLP dedicated publication
• Regular emails with “Tips” and “How to’s” on making the most of ANLP membership
• Keeping up to speed with NLP innovation and debate through our on-line forums

So there you are; NLP trained with NLP World, accredited by ANLP (UK) and AIP (USA) – you now have certifications that allows you to practise practically anywhere in the world. You will be trained in NLP, Time Based Techniques AND Hypnosis (certified by AIP). Not only that, you will be setting up your own profile online with ANLP and have presence already that can get you work immediately.

As long as you have taken our 7 day NLP Practitioner program OR spent 50 hours with us face to face, ANLP will recognise your training with us and grant you access to your own profile.

At NLP World, we are committed to you getting where you want go in life – and that’s before, during and after you compete the training with us. So it isn’t just about working to set you up with ANLP……

Recently, after an NLP Training in Cape town, I assisted two delegates to set up their own NLP business, giving many them hours of my personal time and experience. We also help them get certified as coaches. I let them use NLP World UK as kudos and they now have a very good company going called Duality Coaching.

““I am truly amazed by the continual support I receive from NLP World! Due to the mentorship from Terry Elston, I now have a growing business in South Africa. NLP World has not only taken my training personally, they have also protected my pocket in the process.” Craig Fourie Co-Founder Duality Coaching.

The moto of NLP World is “taking your training personally” and we mean it. When you come to us, the training may finish on a certain day at a certain time, yet we are here to support you long term – to see you make your goals and dreams come true.

Thank you, Terry, for training me so very well on the NLP course…“I think you are the most highly rated external trainer/coach I have experienced in 20 years”
Robin Johnson Managing Director Ovationxl executive coaching company

So the free membership of ANLP is one small step on the ladder to your continuing evolution through training yourself – and choosing the right people to train with.

NLP World has been at the forefront of enhanced expose of NLP within leadership and development context across a range of corporations.

What kind of ‘edge’ does NLP give you?

 
One way NLP assist leaders and management to get ahead of the gain line, is from the advanced language patterns and physiology techniques which reveal the deeper structure of meaning that influences our beliefs, thoughts and behaviour.

As well as significantly improving your performance at work, NLP techniques and approaches will help you to establish and maintain rapport, explore and alter negative patterns of behaviour, and radically improve your ability to communicate effectively.

NLP will also change the way you operate in, and think about, the world around you. The skills you learn on this course will also positively effect other areas of your life too. We guarantee you’ll be using these skills throughout your career.

Here are some of the companies NLP World has worked with and also the context: 

Sony Eriksson:

NLP techniques for quality selling skills

JP Morgan Chase Bank:

Influencing and Negotiation Skills

American Express:

The Business Results & Management Development Programme

Takeda:

Presentation skills and team building

Merrill Lynch:

Team Leadership Development

British Airways:

Career Development Change Management

MOD:

Training staff in NLP skills

HMRC (Inland Revenue):

Call centre; Bridging the gap between management and first line support

Celtic Technologies (Land reclamation experts):

The Power of Successful Selling

Sainsburys:

Career Change Consultancy

Cabinet Office Whitehall:

Communication skills training and one to one coaching

Ernst and Young:

Coaching Skills

Home Office:

Training staff in NLP techniques

Standard Life:

Winning at Presentations

Granada:

Culture Change

Lend Lease:

Presentation skills, motivational coaching skills and management development skills

First Plus (Finance House):

Recruitment & Selection Interviewing

The Planning Inspectorate:

Team Building and Leadership Success

The Mall at Cribbs Causeway Prudential (Retail Park):

Customer Care

AXA Insurance:

Management Change Skills

Education Department:

Communication Skills for Teachers and performance enhancing skills for the pupils

Liberties:

Culture Change

Scottish Power:

Career Change Consultancy

What We Discovered 

We found that most managers and employees of businesses, the people that implement your plans, don’t believe they are successful! They are often questioning themselves to see if they are doing their job right, resulting in them working extremely hard, leaving work stressed and feeling undervalued.

Research and experience tell us that very few people have the training skills coupled with knowledge of what the future impact of training has on a team or individual; the knowledge, language or communication skills to turn these situations around.

Business Training

They have no idea how to clear out their own issues to get a work-life balance and just as importantly create a win/win outcome for their business. In other words, they had no plan for dealing with these ‘human’ problems.

Perhaps You Can Relate To This Too 

Maybe you can relate to some of the points here; certainly, it’s a major problem for many companies. As a business that focuses only on you getting your overall results, we provide the latest techniques that give your managers and teams with the language and communication skills that turn failure into successes – without the pain. That’s not all; we also found that people like you wanted to be sure that you get what you asked for and for that to be guaranteed!

Learning That Your People Take An Active Role 

For any type of learning to really work you need something that people don’t just listen to but where they physically take part. You want solutions that are fast and immediately effective, where the learning and improvement in people and skills carries on, way after the program has finished; where your people have the ability in the future to know what’s missing and how to deal with it when they come across an unforeseen problem.

So what we always advise is that for any training program, the company provides one to one coaching. From research on training effectiveness, it has been proven that training alone has limited success, with only the top performers getting the most from any workshops given. The medium to low performers need something a little more personal and that’s where coaching comes into play.

Course Content includes:

• Introduction to NLP
• Establishing and Maintaining Rapport
• Body Language
• Managing Your Own State
• Self Awareness and Sensory Acuity
• The Importance of Business Ethics
• Improving Communication With Language
• The Power of Questions
• Language Patterns for Influence
• Using metaphor and stories
• Working with Beliefs and Values
• Defining New Directions for Yourself and Others
• Negotiation techniques
• Advanced Presentation skills
• Reframing powefully and quickly for recovery
• Leadership, managing and Alignment
• Strategy in business

So basically, we are talking about staff getting engaged and personally contacted to show they make a difference in your corporation.

So how does staff engagement relate to NLP?

 
Recently, NLP World took on running a staff training for GDS International. There were 100 sales staff and 35 senior managers to train in excellent communication and leadership skills. Although the brief was for a one day training, I negotiated the package for one to one sessions afterwards to consolidate the package. Knowing that change and motivation comes from people being taken care of at the deepest level, we set about backing up the principles of NLP we supplied with personally tailored coaching sessions.

This allowed the medium performers to let go of whatever was holding them back, to begin to perform at their highest levels.

Any training course is only as good as the personal attention you can give to staff who are under performing, or who you want to perform to the best of their abilities. Staff engagement through NLP techniques and coaching is one way to make that happen.

For your corporate bespoke training, email Terry Elston on info@nlpworld.co.uk

by Adam Sprackling

WARNING : This article is only my experience, as such it is not “true”.

I’ve been learning, applying and training NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) since 1994 in life, business and golf. Having studied a few other things along the way too, I’ve got a pretty good idea now about what NLP is, what it’s not, how it works and most importantly how useful it is. I got into studying NLP through my frustration at studying my degree in psychology. My experience of psychology was that it was very interested in why we did what we did and then testing various hypotheses to form various generalisations. Which was interesting. Up to a point. To be honest I didn’t want interesting – I wanted exciting, fascinating, inspiring. I didn’t just want why and what, I wanted HOW??? As a science, psychology seemed to constrain itself to testing theories to develop understanding, but rarely seemed to develop actual change tools and skills.

I wanted to be able to help people make changes in their thinking – but how could I do that unless I could get inside HOW people think. So when I was given the option of writing my final year essay on NLP I became very curious. The essay title given by my tutor was in fabulous psycho-speak “The Neurolinguistic Model of Human Communication and Change: Unsubstantiated Psychobabble or a New Paradigm for the Study of Human Experience” Catchy title! I proceeded to devour every book I could get my hands on – which wasn’t easy as it wasn’t very well known back then. I was fascinated by how artful questioning could shift the pictures, sounds, feelings and tones of voice in our heads, creating whole new experiences of life! Beliefs, values, emotions, behaviours, even phobias and whole personalities could be changed with regular ease. This was not psychology as I knew it, which tried to slowly unpick and understand things, then repeat various superficial tricks over a long period of time until something stuck. This was very precisely and quickly aligning the unconscious mind, making changes in minutes that stayed changed without the need for on-going homework or repeat sessions. I had found what I was looking for and even now I can’t wait to learn more about it.

So what is NLP?

NLP is the study of HOW we think.

Neuro – HOW we use our physical neurology (our brain, nervous system, senses etc) to take in information

Linguisitic – HOW we use the language of that neurology (pictures, sounds, feelings, smells, tastes, thoughts)

Programming – HOW we put those pictures, sounds, feelings, smells, tastes and thoughts together to make sense of the world

NLP cares little about the content of your story, such as “I feel this way because I was bullied at school”. NLP only cares about how you experience that memory in your life NOW. It is a tool of the present tense – a tool to help you become present. Its aim is not to help you understand why you become nervous in certain situations and then develop generic “coping strategies” to counter them. Its aim is to help you change the way you have programmed yourself so you can naturally feel how you want whenever you want. It’s not interested in being objectively “right”, it’s only interested in what works subjectively.

Let me give you a small example of how useful NLP can be in golf.

You’re standing over the ball. How do you know when you’re ready to play your shot? Psychology may give generalised guidance, like focus on a specific target, go when you’ve got an internal green light and trust your swing. Seems like good simple advice doesn’t it? Such good advice, padded out with a number of personal success stories, seems to be the only content of a lot of golf psychology books on the market today. Which is fine, as using that advice will probably help you for a round or so. Then it won’t, and you’ll need the next book in the series that says the same thing. It won’t stick because it needs to more specific.

1. Target – What is a specific target? A distant branch of a tree along that line? A spot on the fairway where your ball will finish? A point at the end of the start line of the shot (if the shot will turn left or right)? What kind of target works best for you on which kind of shot? What about the trajectory?

2. Green light – What if you don’t see a green light when you’re ready? What if your trigger for “GO” is a totally personal experience that you’re not conscious of?

Here are the targets and “GO” triggers for just three of the players I’ve worked with lately:

-          One sees a white line marking out the entire ball flight, then gets a warm tingling spreading downwards in the end of his fingers

-          Another has a 18 inch square zoomed in colour still picture of the ball in it’s finishing spot and gets a feeling in of the soles of his feet spreading out giving him a solid base

-          Another sees a distant starting line target on the ground and has a feeling of invincibility that gives him the feeling of puffing out his chest

Not only are these experiences unique, they are also very specific. That’s what I love about NLP – it’s accuracy (perfect for golf). Knowing your own specific “GO” trigger means that you can tailor your own routine that always brings you to that “GO” trigger point, so you are ready and committed for every shot you play. Unless you know your end point, how are you ever going to plot your route to get there? Where people are concerned, one size does not fit all.

Yet this is one small example. With each of these players, I’ve also used NLP to help them accelerate their development and get regular top ten finishes by helping them:

-          change their beliefs and remove doubts about themselves

-          remove fear and automate powerful confident performance states

-          clear their mind so they can stay present, single mindedly focusing on joining ball and target

-          change the way they recover from poor shots so they move on with useful lessons and confident feelings

-          uncover and use their own learning strategies to accelerate technical development

-          trust their instinct more, freeing them from overthinking

The list of possibilities is endless. If you can tap into the structure and process of HOW your mind works at every level, you can make the very most of who you are, what you can do and what’s possible for yourself.

Common society seems to like science, so the current “paradigm” of psychology will continue to be popular for a while yet. In the mean time, I want to enable the uncommon to become more possible, so I will keep finding stuff that works and pass it on. As I said at the start, this article is only my experience, as such it is not “true”. The truth is a very personal thing!

Love every shot!

Adam Sprackling

NLP “How to” Coach

As a trainer, I know Neuro Linguistic Programming is not about the skill sets. So when I invite people to attend the Master Practitioner Course, I mostly do so from a personal development angle.

On The Master Practitioner course, we are able to ‘take the gloves off’ in terms of skill sets, and show people behind the scenes to how the inner world of change takes place. As an example, I used to have an aversion to the corporate world and definitely to anyone in a uniform or suit. I probably made that happen early in life by having three police officers as parent and step-parents.

When I used NLP to clear out the ‘dark side’ of those memories and any issues relating to that past, the corporate world suddenly opened it’s doors to me.

The Cabinet Office in Whitehall came calling, schools were interested and started using me to train teachers and pupils alike, plus blue chip companies wanted my services.

I had one of my own personal bests recently. One hundred sales people and forty senior managers trained in basic NLP Practitioner aspects (and a few NLP Master Practitioner techniques) for a huge corporation. In terms of my own investment, that paid for all my training up to a Trainer of NLP. And what did I train them in? I trained them in the inner game of success!

That equates to an Neuro Linguistic Programming Master Practitioner course if you wanted to learn the strategy of the inner game.

Here’s what a few people have said:

“Thank you, Terry, for training me so very well on the Master NLP course…“I think you are the most highly rated external trainer/coach I have experienced in 20 years”
Robin Johnson Managing Director Ovationxl executive coaching company

“Terry, thank you so much for a wonderful training session.
I am flying so high I don’t think I’ll need to use BA to get to Tampa this week! Before, I knew that I could be a great NLP Practitioner but I didn’t know it, now I do. Thanks again. See ya Viv” Vivien Melanie

So, as you can imagine, the people here are not talking about skill sets – they are talking about what they now feel inside and what that inner world will now bringing to them.

Get on board now, the inner train of self development is leaving soon. The commitment is small, the possible results huge!!

The new modular style NLP Master Practitioner courses run as a trio and the beauty id you can attend them in any order, and at any time. That keeps the time managable (just two working days out of the month your module is on) and only pay for each module one at a time (£725 each as we speak).

Here is a link to more information on our Neuro linguistic programming Master Practitioner course:

Here is a booking link to NLP Master Practitioner booking page