Skill Level Archives - Page 15 of 17

Getting Motivated: The Godiva Chocolate Pattern!

by Richard Bandler, excerpted from the NLP Comprehensive Practitioner Manual Trainer Edition A fast little process – with a little practice you’ll find yourself doing this in just minutes – that’s great for motivating yourself to do things you know you need to do and want to have completed but seem to keep putting off. This pattern is an example of the power of submodalities. It is especially useful for changing your feelings about getting

Tom Dotz April 15, 2009

Changing A Life In 3 minutes: NLP In Action

Quick change is usually easier, and kinder, than the alternatives. Most of all, it’s a skill anyone can learn. 1011 words; Reading Time 3.88 minutes Most people think that making big changes in life takes a lot of effort and a lot of time, and the bigger the change the harder it will be. Not so. Not even close. Here’s a story of how fast and easily you can do this. One day years ago

Tom Dotz February 19, 2009

Better Than A Bucket: Conversational Coaching With NLP

A Story of NLP In Action – from one of our readers, John Lambert. “I hadn’t seen ‘Susan’ at work for a few days, She drives her van to work when it’s not cold or raining (she broke the driver’s side window out one day when she locked her keys inside). She doesn’t have the money to fix the window so on ‘bad’ weather days she drives her boyfriend’s truck to work. When I saw

Tom Dotz February 12, 2009

Did Barack Obama hypnotize the nation during his Denver acceptance speech?

Found this one in the local weekly, “Westword.” 🙂 “Did Barack Obama hypnotize the nation during his Denver acceptance speech? In this recently posted video, for instance, Obama is accused of using “the techniques of neurolinguistic programming (NLP), a covert form of hypnosis,” to … As you may have heard, Barack Obama recently became the president of the United States. However, his enemies continue to portray him as a smooth but dangerous character whose rhetorical

Tom Dotz February 6, 2009

Applying NLP: More Stories in Coaching, Consulting, Leading

Last week we brought you another great story of the power of applying just one of the most basic NLP techniques for establishing rapport (“Tuning In” Jan 23, 09) Here is another example – excerpted from one of the most popular articles we posted last year – of the effectiveness and transformative qualities of NLP The Power Of Presupposing: Positive Intent “Gerry was working with a senior executive who oversaw a budget of about $1

Tom Dotz January 29, 2009

NLP And The Deep Structure of Marketing

NLP And The Deep Structure of Magical Marketing – Tom Hoobyar This is an outline for a new kind of NLP training I’m designing, and I wanted to run it by you. Consider this a “peek under Tom Hoobyar’s tent”. I’ve noticed for fifteen years that some very accomplished NLP Practitioners have had trouble when it comes to building their private practices, or using their NLP knowledge to make other types of businesses more successful.

Tom Dotz December 18, 2008

Tom’s Twelve Laws of Life

Want to know how NLP can help you Live Your Limitless Life? Click here to schedule your FREE, one-on-one NLP Discovery Session with Tracy! 12 Laws of Life Tom Hoobyar These are non-negotiable and there are no escape clauses. No excuses are accepted. Ignore them at your own risk. I got this information over decades of living, but many people never learn these rules at all. And so they live in “quiet desperation.” You don’t

Tom Hoobyar December 11, 2008

What Takes Your Breath Away?

“The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.” — Ralph W. Sockman Have you asked yourself lately: “What is the positive intention of our current economic situation?” I was on the phone with a friend today who spoke beautifully about the gift of the current situation — how it is collectively putting us in a place we can truly “wake up!” to

lisaj December 3, 2008

Five Great Stories

by Lisa Jackson, NLP Master Practitioner One of my favorite tools in the NLP toolkit is the use of metaphor — especially “teaching stories.” Stories are universally powerful teaching elements because they create a sense of possibility. They are also vastly under-utilized in the world of business. Too often, leaders over-focus on the dry stuff – financials and statistics – and not enough on what inspires people’s hearts and emotions. In the leaders I work

lisaj November 20, 2008

Does NLP Influence or Manipulate?

If you have had exposure to NLP beyond a book or introductory CD, have been involved in a discussion about the utilization of NLP for the purposes of “manipulating” people. (And if you are brand new to NLP, having seen some of the claims made by NLP training institutes, perhaps the question has been raised in your mind). I recall vividly my version of this conversation, in the opening days of my own Practitioner Training,

lisaj November 6, 2008