NLP Coaching: An Evidence-based Approach for Coaches Leaders and Individuals

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) is believed by many to be a powerful set of tools for facilitating change and enhancing performance. Yet, despite the success stories and proliferation of courses, there is still much skepticism about the validity and effectiveness of NLP.

In NLP Coaching Susie Linder-Pelz brings, for the first time, an evidence-based perspective to this coaching methodology. She explains how and where NLP coaching is used, examines its links to established principles and practices, and questions aspects of NLP where the empirical evidence is missing. She reviews recent developments in NLP-based coaching practice and proposes a specific research agenda that will move NLP coaching towards an evidence-based approach.

NLP Coaching provides numerous case studies and real-life examples which show how NLP assists personal, professional, team, leadership and organizational development. The book includes contributions from leaders in the field: Andrew Bryant, Michelle Duval, Joseph O'Connor, Paul Tosey and Lisa Wake.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgements (p. vii)
• Introduction (p. 1)
• What is NLP? (p. 2)
• Questions this book addresses (p. 5)
• Who is this book for? (p. 8)
• My researcher-practitioner perspective (p. 8)
• Mind the gap (p. 9)
• Outline of chapters (p. 10)
• Part 1 NLP and coaching
• 1 What is NLP coaching? (p. 15)
• A bit of background (p. 16)
• The goal of NLP coaching (p. 17)
• Modelling is the key (p. 18)
• 2 Catching a coach at work (p. 21)
• The skills an NLP coach uses (p. 21)
• 3 The 'magic' of NLP (p. 40)
• Invisible glue (p. 40)
• Five faces of organizational coaching (p. 41)
• Coaching issues (p. 43)
• 4 Meeting industry standards (p. 52)
• NLP coaching vs NLP practice (p. 52)
• Packaging NLP coaching (p. 53)
• Meeting professional coaching standards (p. 55)
• 5 Shifting paradigms (p. 58)
• Science and post-modernist inquiry (p. 58)
• Humanistic and positive psychology (p. 60)
• Convergence of neuroscience and psychology (p. 62)
• Part 2 An evidence-based approach to NLP coaching
• 6 Best practice is evidence-based (p. 67)
• What does evidence-based mean? (p. 67)
• Theories, principles and presuppositions (p. 68)
• Nine systemic principles (p. 70)
• 7 Systemic principles with psychological overlay (p. 73)
• Roots in psychology and support from neuroscience (p. 74)
• Unsubstantiated aspects of NLP (p. 93)
• 8 Links to psychology (p. 95)
• Links to other coaching psychology approaches (p. 95)
• Distinctive and shared practices (p. 99)
• More on mindfulness (p. 101)
• Is NLP really 'latheoretical'? (p. 102)
• 9 Empirical evidence (p. 103)
• The historical role of research in NLP (p. 103)
• The verdict so far (p. 106)
• Yin and yang in coaching research (p. 108)
• The case for mixed methods (p. 111)
• Conclusion to Part 2 (p. 112)
• Part 3 Towards best practice
• Building on NLP coachig (p. 117)
• Symbolic Modelling and Clean Language (p. 117)
• Theoretical origins (p. 120)
• Principles (p. 122)
• Methodology (p. 123)
• Practice (p. 125)
• Meta-Coaching (p. 127)
• Meta-level principles (p. 128)
• The Meta-States model (p. 129)
• The Axes of Change Model (p. 131)
• The Meta-Coaching methodology (p. 133)
• Case study in career development (p. 135)
• What do these approaches add? (p. 137)
• 11 Working as a practitioner-researcher (p. 139)
• Findings from a small practice (p. 139)
• Calling for good research questions (p. 141)
• How NLP coaching works (p. 142)
• Impact studies: Does it work? (p. 143)
• Comparisons with other approaches (p. 145)
• Visioning the 'gold standard' (p. 147)
• Rigour and vigour (p. 149)
• 12 Benchmarking and evaluating competencies (p. 151)
• Competency-based NLP coach training (p. 151)
• From modelling to benchmarking (p. 152)
• Benchmarking NLP skills in organizations (p. 156)
• Research-mindedness (p. 159)
• Conclusion (p. 162)
• Endnotes (p. 165)
• Bibliography (p. 213)
• Index (p. 228)