For the right person at the right time, an NLP Practitioner course will have significant positive impact for them and their lives. For this reason, it’s important that you choose your NLP Trainer with care. Here are some important aspects to consider when choosing an NLP Trainer.

READ AROUND:
It’s useful to understand something about NLP in advance of looking for a trainer. Having a basic knowledge about the subject, will make it easier to select the trainer that can deliver what you want to get out of NLP. There are a number of great books available about NLP, so take the time to read around this new subject matter. However don’t be concerned if they don’t make total sense. NLP is a ‘live’ rather than ‘theoretical’ discipline and to many people it only makes sense after they’ve experienced training.

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO GET OUT OF IT?
It’s important that you have an idea of what you want to achieve from your training. Having a purpose will help you get the most out of NLP and help you to find the right NLP course for you – one that will help you to get what you want. A good trainer will help you refine and develop your purpose as they work with you.

ACCREDITATION
It’s essential to understand that NLP training is unregulated in the United Kingdom. On the whole this is a positive thing, because it means that NLP training companies are not hindered by regulation that promotes uniformity and standardization. However, it’s critical that potential clients are able to find out the calibre and quality of their trainer before commencing their training.

To ensure that you don’t end up with a poorly qualified trainer, we suggest that you look for those NLP trainers that have been recently accredited by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, the co-creators of NLP. They’ve both developed NLP significantly over the past 30 years and made it far more effective.

PRICE OR QUALITY
Professional training is measured by the quality of the course content and the skill of the trainer. You need to know in advance whether you want to buy training on the basis of ‘quality’ or ‘price’. Buying on price alone is fine, but don’t expect the quality of training to be in the same league as the more expensive NLP courses.

IT’S ABOUT YOU
NLP is about your development. Speak to potential trainers in advance about what you wish to achieve. The focus should be on you and not the trainer, or in fact about NLP itself. NLP is an enabler to help you achieve what’s important to you.

ETHICS
Another important aspect of NLP training is that you trust your trainer. Your learning will be accelerated if they put you at ease. One of the essential elements in the training relationship is that the trainer allows you to be yourself and has no problem if you hold differing beliefs to them.

NUMBERS
Large training groups are more like a lecture and it’s easier for you to ‘hide’. Smaller training groups require more courage and openness, because you cannot ‘hide’. However, the smaller the numbers, the greater the focus on your own agenda will be and the more potential for a powerful outcome.

CREATE A SHORT LIST
Don’t just choose the first person that you find on Google, instead make a short list of potential trainers. Compare their approaches and speak with them via telephone or email. Assure yourself that you are making the right decision and the best investment of your time and money.

OPEN MIND
Once you’ve chosen your NLP trainer, it’s vital that you maintain an open mind during the training process. The training is experiential and requires that you reserve judgement until you discover the results. This way you can make your own decisions based on the outcome. Some of the most powerful learning experiences occur when what you believed to be ‘impossible’ is revealed to be ‘obvious’.

Resources:
NLP Books
NLP CD and DVD’s
NLP Forum
And include us, NLP Training on your shortlist!

Michael Beale
PPI Business NLP Ltd
Tuesday, 14 July 2009

NLP can help you to unlock skills that you may already have but that are not fully developed. It can also help you to communicate, connect with and influence others.

Normally, the types of people that come to an NLP trainer or coach are capable people who have decided that they want to achieve more than they are currently experiencing. Others find that they’ve temporarily hit a ‘glass ceiling’, which has created an obstacle to their progression in their professional or personal life.

There are many established applications of NLP that demonstrate its benefits:

For Business and Organisations

Communication, thinking and the capacity to manage change are essential ingredients in the leadership and management of organisations. Specific skills developed through the application of NLP include Leadership, Coaching, Sales, Managing Change, Presenting and Influence.

There are two particular applications where NLP approaches demonstrate a particularly high impact. The first is Coaching and Mentoring and their relationship with Performance Modelling.

When you model exceptional performers, you are in fact coaching them. This is because you’re letting them ‘unpick’ what they’re doing now to product greater results and bringing some of what they do now into their own consciousness. Most high performers will immediately then begin to identify and improve areas of weakness.

However, at the same time, you are increasing your personal library of performance models that may be applicable at a later stage to others that are yet to be high performers. The greater number of high performance models or approaches you have, the better your coaching capability will be at all levels of performance.

The second area of particularly high impact for the application of NLP is when change teams are fully trained and coached in these skills. In the short term, this may mean that the initial challenge, resistance and pain of change are increased because key issues will become highlighted earlier. However, approached in way, the change will be much more effective.

For Personal Challenges: Smoking, Weight Loss, Apparent Lack of Confidence and Unfounded Fears.

When a client is strongly motivated, NLP offers successful strategies and techniques for all of the challenges listed above. While some of these challenges do take a significant investment of time and effort to overcome, with others, clients move forward to towards what they want to achieve almost immediately.

For Entertainment

Entertainers such as Derren Brown and Paul McKenna include NLP in their performances. Using NLP helps to add excitement, curiosity and intrigue to their television programmes and live shows, helping to keep their audiences engaged and entertained. NLP approaches such as Leading States, Storytelling, Awareness, Anchoring and Fractionation add impressive abilities to anyone who entertains and presents for a living.

Anyone who helps others to change has at least a toe in the entertainment industry. If you can get someone who has a problem to smile (just for a moment) as they consider their options, their attitude to the problem, is likely to change.

For Attraction, Seduction and Relationships

Some people seem to intuitively understand the rules of attraction, seduction and relationships. Others appear completely unaware and therefore entirely unable to use them to their advantage. For some men, particularly approaching and talking to women can be a scary experience.

NLP approaches can provide some surprisingly effective insights and resources for individuals to aiming to attract, seduce and/or build relationships.

Interestingly, many of the best sales training programmes currently available, are a combination of attraction techniques and NLP approaches.

For Sporting Achievement

Sports people can experience significant developments in their performance by applying NLP. By setting motivating and exciting goals, modelling their own successful performance and modelling other top performers, sporting individuals can see considerable impact on their results.

For General Personal Change and Development

Many people come to NLP looking for assistance with a specific change and stay on to learn more because of the personal change and development that they’ve achieved through it. By exploring NLP, they learn to communicate with and understand themselves much better. Whilst concurrently, they communicate and understand better with those around them. Over time, this leads to ongoing and positive change in their lives.

Resources:
NLP Books
NLP CD and DVD’s
NLP Forum
NLP Training

Michael Beale
PPI Business NLP Ltd
Tuesday, 14 July 2009

NLP training is directly related to increasing our ability to influence and persuade. it leads to greatly improved communication skills, confidence, motivation and success and It’s also effective in overcoming blocks or barriers caused by a lack of these skills.

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