Effective NLP Skills

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is one of the most powerful communication tools available.It helps you to influence and persuade people, to understand what makes you and your colleagues tick and tells you what really happens when we communicate.Effective NLP Skills covers all the NLP models, tools, skills and behaviours you need, and teaches you how to channel this knowledge into improving your performance at work. You will discover how to manage yourself and others, how to use language to get what you want, outcome thinking, how to build rapport and how to motivate others.With crucial insight into the workings of the brain and essential techniques to enhance your learning, Effective NLP Skills is for anyone who wants to utilise the NLP model to get ahead in their career.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction (p. 1)
• 1 The history, people, influences and development of NLP (p. 5)
• The early years (p. 5)
• other influences and theories (p. 6)
• NLP; a model, not a theory (p. 7)
• Recent history (p. 7)
• 2 Your brain: a user manual (p. 9)
• Learning and developing habits (p. 11)
• Coming to your senses: representational systems and submodalities (p. 15)
• if Outcome thinking (p. 23)
• Patterns of thinking and preferences (p. 28)
• Mind-body, imagination and time (p. 34)
• The NLP communication model (p. 37)
• 3 Managing yourself (p. 45)
• Enabling and limiting beliefs and the Nlp presuppositions (p. 47)
• Improving your sensory acuity (p. 51)
• Developing your own flexibility (p. 54)
• Well-formed outcomes (p. 57)
• State management: choosing your attitude (p. 63)
• 4 Managing others (p. 73)
• Building rapport (p. 74)
• Framing and reframing (p. 78)
• Perceptual positions (p. 80)
• Motivating others (p. 84)
• 5 Powerful use of language (p. 89)
• The power of language (p. 89)
• Being specific: the meta-model (p. 90)
• Persuasive language (p. 95)
• Body language (p. 103)
• 6 Business applications (p. 107)
• Feedback and appraisals (p. 107)
• The vision thing: 'I have a dream' (p. 113)
• Selling (p. 116)
• Choosing the most effective leadership style for the situation (p. 119)
• Modelling others abilities (p. 123)
• Stress management: building personal resilience (p. 129)
• Time management (p. 132)