Practical NLP

Follow the steps in the 123-XL Model to be a better negotiator. With some tips on how you can use your NLP skills to get better results in negotiation

Tips from NLP (and a few other areas like Emotional Intelligence and Appreciative Inquiry) to run more effective meetings

This week on the Practical NLP Podcast, the most important thing you need to know about changing people's minds - something that many of those 'Influence with NLP' and 'Get anyone to do anything you want' courses out there don't tell you.

NLP has a useful set of classifications for the behaviour patterns of 'difficult' people, known as the 'Satir Categories'. Learn how to recognise them...

Ideas from NLP for giving effective feedback (and what not to do) - plus how to learn from criticism while maintaining a good emotional state

Perceptual Positions is one of the most useful NLP patterns. It looks at any interpersonal problem from 3 viewpoints for new insights

In this episode, some of the most useful metaprograms for business, covering 'Sameness/Difference' and 'Options/Procedures'

In this episode of the Practical NLP Podcast we look at the General/Specific, Proactive/Reactive and Internal/External Frame of Reference metaprograms

Metaprograms in NLP are one of the sets of filters we use to create our map of the world. They run 'in the background' so we are usually not consciously aware of them. They drive: what we pay attention to what we respond to what motivates us how we interact with the people around us the kind of language that will influence us This podcast introduces metaprograms (and five reasons you need to know...

This week's podcast covers one of the most useful models in NLP - the 'Logical Levels' or 'Neuro-Logical Levels' model developed by Robert Dilts. This is a powerful map for coaching individuals, and is also a useful way to analyse change in a team or organisation. It's even applicable in the field of branding. The podcast includes: Why moving house may not be enough on its own to solve your neighb...

Parts Integration (also known as the 'Visual Squash') is one of the most powerful changework techniques in NLP. In this episode we guide you through it...

'Incongruence' is when someone is in two minds about something, or when their behaviour doesn't match their words.

A useful way to look at 'problem' behaviours is to remember there is a positive intention behind them. Separating the intention from the results (which may be unwanted) opens up the possibility of change without 'resistance'. John Grinder's 'Six Step Reframe' process is an elegant format that uses this principle. You can use this format to change your own habits - or if you're a therapist, add it...

All meaning is context-dependent - so when we place events, things or qualities in a different frame, our emotional responses and probably behavioural responses can also change to something more helpful. This podcast explains the two types of 'standard' reframing in NLP (context and meaning reframes) and adds a third, the 'figure-ground' reframe. It also shows how preframing can save you a lot of...

A new topic for the next series of podcasts: frames! The meaning we attach to what we perceive, and even what we notice versus what we don't notice, is strongly influenced by which 'frames' we are using. This podcast introduces the topic, and explains some commonly used frames in NLP and when they may be useful in a business, training or coaching context. The frames mentioned in this podcast are b...

In the last few episodes we’ve been talking about strategies. I'd like to round off this section by mentioning a powerful NLP technique for doing things better or installing new strategies - the New Behaviour Generator. As far as I know, this method was developed by Richard Bandler. It's like positive mental rehearsal on steroids! These are the steps: Describe a behaviour you would like to be able...

This week's episode features a format you can use to get lots of viable creative ideas from even the most unpromising groups, or that you can use to generate ideas yourself even if you don't regard yourself as 'creative' - it's the 'Disney Strategy for Creativity', modelled and developed by Robert Dilts. Includes:00.40: How I helped people from the world's least creative professions to generate gr...

Lots of people who thought they were just 'naturally bad spellers' have improved their spelling with the NLP Spelling Strategy. It turns out they weren't naturally bad at all, they were just using a strategy that didn't work very well. Find out the strategy that works in this week's podcast!

This week's podcast looks in detail at our buying strategies. These can be 'chunked down' into four elements - motivation, decision, convincer and reassurance strategies. In particular, we consider some typical problems in decision strategies, and how convincer strategies work.

Motivation can be 'towards' what you want or 'away from' what you don't want - but which is more effective in achieving your goals, and why? Find out in this week's Practical NLP Podcast.

This week in the Practical NLP Podcast, how to use a strategy that you have elicited - or change it so it works better!

How to use the NLP TOTE Model to elicit a client's strategy - useful in modelling excellence, and also in therapy and coaching

In this episode we start to get to grips with ‘Strategies’ - our internal ‘programs’ for doing what we do, both problems and the things we’re good at - and the TOTE Model, the standard model used in NLP to make sense of them.

A quick guide to how metaphors are used in NLP and how to create them

Milton Model part 5 - Switching Referential Index, Selection Restriction Violations, Tag Questions