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What is NLP?

NLP stands for Neuro Linguistic Programming.

Its strange name stems from its origins in the 1970's: learning how to do things by combining the best parts of different fields, including neurology, linguistics and systems theory

Tools from NLP work so well that it forms the basis of much of today's communication training and performance training.

NLP is for business courses are widely respected by leading employers. NLP has found its way discretely into many courses on sales, presentations, planning, and team building, often without being mentioned by name.

In the expanding field of coaching, many coaching training programmes borrow from NLP or use it as a base, and our courses have attracted many coaches seeking to deepen their understanding of their profession.

In personal development, NLP is an ideal way to address a personal issue, or build strengths in both familiar and unfamiliar areas. NLP offers a cognitive framework, a supportive environment and practical tools that can help you in many ways.

Within the Human Resources profession, an understanding of NLP can help make the most out of investment in staff by working on beliefs as well as behaviours and by making learning sustainable.

NLP is also used in many additional fields including sports, art, health, education, politics, in fact, anywhere that involves human endeavour.

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What will an NLP course do for me?

NLP communication training will enable you to:

Improve your verbal and non-verbal communication
Deepen your appreciation of thinking styles
Learn techniques for high performance states
Change unwanted habits for desired ones
Set goals to fit (and change) your life
Use language with greater precision
Perform at your best
Enjoy activities you used to fear

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Who invented NLP?

NLP originated with the meeting of two remarkable minds at the University of Santa Cruz in the 1970s. John Grinder, a professor of linguistics, met Richard Bandler, a student of mathematics who was trying out therapy on his fellow students based on the transcripts of a famous therapist. The results were remarkable.

Grinder reputedly said to Bandler, "If you show me what you are doing, I will explain to you how you are doing it."

The result was a collaboration on the idea of making explicit the verbal and behavioural patterns that create excellence in human life.

Their first subjects of study were Fritz Perls (the creator of Gestalt therapy) and Virginia Satir, an exceptionally effective family therapist. They went on to study Milton Erickson who was the founder of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, and perhaps the greatest influence on medical hypnosis of the 20th century.

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How has NLP evolved?

From its conception in the 1970s out of an academic enquiry into how people excel in various fields, NLP has mushroomed. The result has been the distillation of certain principles and subtle communications structures that can be taught, learned, and applied in any area of your life.

You will be able to enhance, discover, adjust or transform thought into action, allowing you to attain far-reaching positive changes in yourself and inspire them in others.

Over the past 30 years NLP has undergone and continues to undergo considerable refinement.

Many of its techniques and principles have passed into common usage under other names and appear to us daily, not only in the classroom and in coaching situations, but also in cinema, television and, of course, in business communications.

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NLP today

A further group of interested people in Santa Cruz assisted in the creation of the original modelling and research.

By the early 1980's, Bandler and Grinder's cooperation ended and NLP found a new direction under others within this Santa Cruz group. Of this group, it was Robert Dilts who firstly revolutionised the therapy and health models. He also created wider models, adding to the individualistic focus of the founders.

NLP was now evolving to include systems thinking with much wider applications for the fields of business and organisational processes. For example, Dilts' "Disney Imagineering" project creation process is now used by Disney themselves.

More recently, Robert's international focus has led to an NLP community with an abundant and generative mentality. At the NLP School Europe, we teach the material from the founders, along with the more modern contributions from Dilts, Gilligan, DeLozier, Andreas, etc.

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Is now the right time for an NLP course?

If you wish to make a significant change in your career, health, wealth, relationships, family or personal sense of comfort - NLP has approaches that work.

People often come to a "crossroads" in their life when they want to discover something new. NLP's popularity at this junction point comes from providing tools to improve performance and to feel better about yourself without providing any specific ideology.

NLP is simply a field created by various people who wanted to get the best from numerous disciplines that the academic establishment often insist are to be studied separately.

NLP was founded on the principle of modelling excellence; finding out what high achievers do and then replicating the patterns that had led to their successful behaviour.

Albert Einstein said that a problem cannot be solved with the same level of thinking that created it. If you are ready to try something new to bring real positive change in your life and the lives of people close to you, then it is worth exploring what NLP has to offer.

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How do people use NLP?

The applications of NLP are wide and varied.

Often people come to our courses with a particular interest in NLP for business, NLP coaching, health and NLP, NLP for personal development, NLP for sales and negotiation, NLP for Human Resources, NLP techniques for teaching or sports, to name just a few.

Whatever your initial area of interest or focus, NLP has a huge breadth of applications. Can you think of any area in life which wouldn�t benefit from better rapport skills, listening and coaching skills and an outcome focus, for example?

Rapport Skills: Good managers, team workers and customer-facing staff naturally show good people skills. NLP training can improve these and, more importantly, it can enable people to value these skills as an essential part of their roles. Of course, NLP communication skills impact on your personal life and family relationships too.

Coaching Skills: Listening is a skill. Being able to listen to people within a coaching framework enables them to identify solutions and construct the steps to implement them. This works just as well with at home with the children as it does with management skills in the workplace.

Outcome Focus: Keeping yourself or others focused requires tact and determination as well as the non-judgmental coaching skills mentioned above. It also requires that people anticipate what could go wrong, as well as being imaginative.

The NLP Project Outcome Process provides a framework that can identify areas that may be overlooked in normal project planning. These areas can be the �difference that makes the difference��and ensure that you or your organisation delivers on promises.

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How can I justify NLP training to my employer?

NLP has been adopted by business consultants and trainers and has become very popular in business across the world. Companies such as Microsoft, Royal Bank of Scotland, Coca Cola and PriceWaterhouse Coopers, to name just a few, offer NLP courses to their staff.

Many of the attendees on our NLP courses are people who are facing new challenges and their boss wants them to "hit the ground running." As NLP is the basis of much of executive coaching, it is reasonable to say to your boss that NLP training will be an inexpensive and rapid way of delivering extensive coaching to you.

Coaching usually enables someone not only to learn new communication skills, but also improves their confidence in challenging situations.

Tools from NLP work so well that they have found their way into most management skills training, sales and negotiation skills training and advanced presentation skills training, often without being mentioned by name or being used in their source material.

Whether undertaking staff reviews, planning team building exercises, project planning, formulating goals, communicating with your stakeholders, or undertaking public speaking or presentations, NLP will help you excel.

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What now?

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