I just read a great article “Social Intelligence and the Biology of Leadership” from the September 2008 issue of Harvard Business Review. It details fascinating new research by Daniel Goleman of “emotional intelligence” (EQ) fame. The emerging field of social neuroscience — the study of what happens in the brain while people interact — will be …
Have you ever had that moment when you say something with very little purpose, just part of a story, and all of a sudden it hits you…a hidden limiting belief you have and when you got it? Something you had no idea you ever believed, you never consciously thought about it, but when you heard …
How to become a professional NLP Practitioner Thanks for your serious interest. I’m going to give you a straight answer, one my marketing folks won’t like. It’s practice that will make your skill, and skill that will make your practice. To achieve a skill level to succeed at practicing NLP as a profession takes …
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NLP Triggering and Anchoring – Firing Together Today the words and experience of triggering are all over the media. It’s almost always reported as a negative experience. There are calls to forbid certain behaviors because they ‘trigger’ some people. Triggering is just one part of a stimulus-response loop that was modeled in the early days …
The primary presupposition underlying all of Neuro-Linguistic Programming is that The Map is not the Territory. You experience life through a set of personal perceptual filters that are unique to you. Your experience is filtered first by the limits of your sensory organs and what you perceive as a small slice of the world. In …
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Access and Anchoring to Three States – An Advanced NLP Exercise Here is a classic NLP Anchoring process exercise. Often overlooked and still as powerful as ever! While designed for groups of four, you can certainly do it with two, and even, perhaps, practice with yourself! Anchoring with NLP has already been introduced as the super …
I had a request to re-post this classic from our archives, so here it is! By Kevin Creedon, it’s a great little piece of quick-change artistry good for all 🙂 3 NLP Techniques to Create Instant State Change – by Kevin Creedon “Think of a problem.” Those four words are used repeatedly throughout NLP training …
To properly do NLP you need three things: Rapport An Outcome And a Ritual We started with Rapport: how to establish a connection so that people care. Now we will move to Outcomes and then Rituals, or as they are known in NLP, processes. Today we will use a blended example of outcome and ritual …
815 Words, 3.26 time to read, read online <link> After the last couple of emails about some very specific ways to establish rapport, it occurred to me that I hadn’t defined it, or described its importance. Let’s dive into that now and be clear on how, where, and why you care (a lot) about the …
361 Words, time 1.44 In the last couple posts (here and here) you were shown the rapport move called pacing. Pacing effectively creates a connection so that you can lead a conversation in the direction you want to go. This could be as simple as where to have dinner or as complex as agreeing on …
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