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This NLP Technique Can Help You Ensure That You’re Doing The Right Thing

by David Ferrers

In any new endeavor, or when working for a new boss, it is often difficult to know whether you’re doing the right thing. It is important to know that you are working in the right way. So how do you find out? The answer is to use one of the easiest nlp techniques which is [...]

How NLP Techniques Can Improve Performance in Any Company

by David Ferrers

A report in yesterday’s issue of the Sunday Times newspaper says that the UK Government is looking for ways to streamline civil service departments. The report focuses on the fact that Ministers are concerned that civil service departments are still bloated and that they cannot continue to cut away the fat. What they say is [...]

The Most Useful NLP Techniques No.6 – A Belief in Excellence

by David Ferrers

Creating a belief in excellence is one of the most powerful nlp techniques that can be used in a business environment. Yes, I know what you’re thinking – “we already have a belief in excellence”. But, do you? From my experience it is most likely that what you have the practice of saying, “we believe [...]

The Most Useful NLP Techniques No.5 – Metaphor

by David Ferrers

It is a natural human behaviour to tell stories. In NLP we call such stories metaphors. They are one of the most useful NLP techniques because they are so natural and so common in any society. You describe your situation by metaphor. For instance you might say, “this is an excellent day, I am having [...]

The Most Useful NLP Techniques No.4 – Anchoring

by David Ferrers

Of all the NLP techniques anchoring is probably the most simple and in many ways the most useful. Anchoring is simply creating an aide memoire for a new state which you have created for yourself. For instance if you have managed to make yourself feel happy, then, while you are in that “feeling happy” state [...]

The Most Useful NLP Techniques No.3 – Modeling

by David Ferrers

Modeling was the first of the NLP techniques developed by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. The basic idea is to locate another person who possesses a skill that you would like to have and then ask, “how do they do that?” By breaking down the elements of what they do you are then in a [...]

The Most Useful NLP Techniques No.2 – The Swish Pattern

by David Ferrers

The Swish Pattern is one of the most powerful NLP techniques for making changes in your behaviour or feelings. It is a very simple method of taking an old, unwanted behaviour and substituting it with a new, empowering behaviour. The Swish Pattern is particularly useful in situations where you repeatedly find yourself under-performing even though [...]

The Most Useful NLP Techniques No.1 – Mirroring

by David Ferrers

Nlp techniques can be used in many situations. For instance mirroring is very useful when you want to put someone at ease so that you can influence them. As an example, imagine you are interviewing someone for a job and they are so nervous that you suspect that you are not getting the best out [...]

Leadership Quotes from Famous Leaders – No.6

by David Ferrers

I am often accused of placing too much emphasis on the value of friendship in the persona of a leader. Perhaps the reason is that I worked in the advertising agency founded by Leo Burnett in Chicago. One of my favourite leadership quotes comes from the great man who said: “It seems axiomatic that you have [...]

Leadership Quotes from Famous Leaders No.5

by David Ferrers

A famous army general who led the D-Day landings in Normandy in 1944 and went on to become President of the USA, Dwight D. Eisenhower said: “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” This leadership quote is more profound than it might at [...]

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