Neuro-Linguistic Programming is the study of excellence in human performance, and is an extremely practical tool for creating success in business today. When you learn the secrets of NLP you will be able to easily apply them to enhance any area of your life. For example, you will raise your skills as a communicator to a highly advanced level, enabling you to achieve professional and personal results way beyond your previous expectations.

The principles of NLP are so powerful and yet so simple and easy to learn.

They are skills that once learned will continue to bring you unprecedented success.

The training draws upon a wide range of tools rather than adopting a fixed way of working and the modules are packed with practical advice on what works in a customer driven business.

NLP provides the tools and techniques for developing individuals, teams and organisations to achieve success.

NLP is practical. It is about real skills for real people in real business situations. It is the study of excellence - both for individuals and organisations. It relates the skills and values of the people in business to the business goals and the business structure. How can we relate this to personal success in business?

Firstly, personal success is about enjoying your work - feeling congruent and motivated by what you are doing. Doing work that fulfils your life and not fragments it. NLP brings much to this area - communication skills, leadership skills, and ways to clarify your beliefs and values, so you can appreciate yourself and bring more of yourself to your work.

Success is about achieving results. The results you get are a reflection of your ability to motivate yourself and others and to work with, or creatively around, the business structure.

Those two aspects are always related. In any organisation the environment, procedures, organisational values and identity are as much part of the system as the skills, actions, beliefs and values of the people within it.

One of the great strengths of NLP is the ability to clarify and relate tangible, everyday business procedures with intangible ideas and values that drive them.

Thirdly, NLP is flexible and not prescriptive. It is not an all-or-nothing approach, and can complement and enhance other approaches. NLP is about your unique experience and how you create it.

What are the foundations of NLP, and how do they relate to business? There are five principles.

“First understand then be understood”

The first is rapport - the relationship of trust and mutual influence that is at the heart of successful managing. How exactly do you get rapport? How do you motivate people? How can you develop trust and mutual influence between people?

“Begin with the end in mind”

The second principle is knowing your outcome. NLP gives the skills not only to clarify business goals, but also to relate individual goals to organisational ones, avoiding the situation where everyone is working away at well thought out, but conflicting goals, thus sending the organisation round in circles.

“There is no failure only feedback”

The third principle is to be open to feedback. This means for individuals the sensory acuity to be open to what they see, hear and feel from others, in order to better understand them.

NLP has rich and effective models for understanding body language and words. So many business problems are caused by miscommunication. What prevents these kinds of situation is NLP communication skills and questioning skills.

Feedback is also about gathering evidence that you have achieved your goals. Feedback tells you that either you are on course or off course. If you are off course, then the results tell you what you need to do to get back on again.

“If you always do what you’ve always done you’ll always get what you’ve always got”

The fourth principle is flexibility - the ability to change what you are doing based on the feedback you are getting. Often this means being able to see an issue from different positions - the customer’s position, the management position, and the position of other team members.

“The mind and body are one integrated system ”

Finally, there is state management. The ability to maintain a resourceful state in yourself and others is they key to personal and business success.

In addition to BUSINESS Shortcuts and Certifed NLP Training New Oceans offeres a range of unique and powerful Team Building interventions using the very latest in communication, personal development and accelerated learning techniques.

Please contact us on 01727 869782 or send us an e-mail to discuss how we can Make A Difference to you, your team and organisation.