NLP Course Recap

NLP is an approach to communication and personal development. NLP

connects neurological processes, language, and patterns of behavior to help
us achieve our goals.

Apply NLP – The Process

There are four steps to applying NLP to your personal development:

Improving yourself through NLP involves understanding where your emotions

come from and realizing that we have a choice in how to react.

We also need to examine our beliefs, which affect how we perceive the world,
and ultimately, how others perceive us.
Four Habits

You should also use the four habits to improve yourself. They are:

You can develop your ability to resolve conflict by implementing NLP

techniques.
In order to resolve conflict, you should avoid taking one side or the other.

Instead, you should ask the people in conflict what it is that the other person
likely finds difficult about working with them.

Once people have looked at their own behavior from the perspective of the
other side, they can often see why the other person is acting as they have.

From there, get the two parties in conflict to agree on a joint objective.

A technique for opening the mind of someone in conflict is to ask what he

would do if his chosen course of action was not available.
The second step in the process of applying NLP is to read others.

People give clues to how they are feeling through their body language. Look
for signs that your message is not being received well, especially when there
is a change in body language.

The second part of reading others is to model people’s inner experience.

Look for people’s beliefs that are stated as facts. Also look for the type of
language they use.

The three ways that people experience the world are:

1. Visual
2. Auditory and
3. Feelings
Reading others is essential to build rapport, which is the next step in applying
NLP.

People are in a state of rapport when they trust each other, and people in
rapport feel comfortable expressing their true feelings. Being in rapport with
someone does not mean agreeing with everything they say. Rapport is a
necessary pre-condition for influencing another person.

You can only influence others from a state of rapport.

One key technique for influencing others is the use of the well-formed
outcome.

The well-formed outcome consists of the following questions:

Developing a well-formed outcome provides clarity of purpose between

individuals.