My Journey of NLP

“Oh my God, again this mail on NLP”, I am just murmuring while going back to home in metro train.

I keep getting mails daily on joining NLP program. What is this fuss all about NLP?? 

Questions like – what is NLP? What is the scope? What is the importance of NLP? and so on are hitting to my mind. And in all this curiosity, I thought of calling my friend Gregory who himself is a NLP trainer. Without taking a minute, I just dial his number.

Gregory – Hey. What’s up?

Me: All is well. Greg I need your help. I need to know about NLP.

Greg: Ok. I will tell you everything about NLP.

What is NLP

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is an approach to communication, personal development, and psychotherapy that focuses on the connection between neurological processes, language, and behavioral patterns learned through experience.

NLP Benefit

The benefits of taking Neuro-Linguistic Programming Course include improved communication skills, enhanced personal and professional relationships, effective goal setting, and the ability to overcome limiting beliefs and behaviors. NLP is an essential addition to the skillset of leaders and HR managers, internal coaches and trainers, providing practical methods to enable individuals and teams to tap into their deeper potential. The wide scope of this field enables flexibility to navigate complex and varied relationships.

NLP supports organisational development in a range of ways including:

Leadership and HR

From setting strategic direction through to identifying fundamental behavior expectations, NLP models help with aligning your business activity to organisational goals providing frameworks for managing performance and positively influencing group and individual motivation.

Vision

Learning how to use language in a way that provides universal appeal encourages a variety of stakeholders to pro-actively fulfil their role in achieving collective wealth. The language models used by NLP practitioners acknowledge how words and phrase structures influence us both at a conscious and unconscious level.

Communication

Ensuring the message intended is the message received. NLP helps identify how, why and where miscommunication can arise… and what you can do to counteract this. Attending to subtle non-verbal and verbal communication cues can make the difference between clarity and confusion, transparency and opacity. NLP skills take your emotional intelligence to a new level.

Decision Making

In turbulent times decision-making capability is a key leadership skill, discovering more about the personal mechanics of decision-making; for example, how do we know what we know and where do we place emphasis when it comes to making cogent choices can resolve inertia through developing the ability to work more confidently with non-certainty. An awareness of (and emphasis upon) systems ecology can encourage greater accountability and use of professional judgment.

Motivation and Team Dynamics

Acknowledging how motivation really works, the subjective nature of values beyond a tick box exercises, reveals different approaches to encouraging combined efforts towards shared goals. Connecting with individual core values can allow employees to bring their full energy and attention to their working environment.

Mediation

Addressing rapport blockers relies on finding common ground. This can be achieved through using multiple perspective methods taken from the field of gestalt, identifying the higher intention behind less functional behavior tendencies and eliciting belief structures to resolve conflict.

Presence and Personal Influence

Using powerful state management approaches to tailor interpersonal impact, when leading, coaching, presenting, negotiating, facilitating, creates more authentic conversations. Perceived status can aid or inhibit connection and engagement, NLP techniques inform what we can each do to develop flexibility in this area.

Stress and Anxiety Management

Learning how thoughts and emotions inter-relate and developing techniques to rewire less helpful patterns, helps to build resilience. Putting in place healthy mind / body routines promotes wellness and self-regulation during highly challenging times.

NLP Demand in India

Over the last 5-6 years, NLP Training Programs have gained significant popularity in India. Increasing awareness of the benefits received from being trained in NLP has led to a spike in demand for programs and workshops. India is a fast-growing market for NLP workshops and home-grown trainers are riding the wave.

NLP in India is at a very crucial stage, and next few years will determine what will be the future of NLP training in India. A successful trainer must be skilled in several areas. One must be first and foremost ethical and honest. Integrity is a key trait to sustain and grow in any business.  As with any industry, the fortitude and skill to manage and evolve with the inevitable ups and downs in the market is also essential. The importance of consistently growing and evolving to provide more value to customers cannot be overemphasized. At the core of it all, the trainer must believe in him/herself.

Me: Ok. This is so exciting. Greg why am I getting the feeler that I can become NLP Trainer too.

Greg: Why not? You can. And for this I know a Master Trainer Dr Dorris who is one of the best to get the NLP certification. If you want, I can connect you with her.

Me: Lovely. That sounds great. Please arrange my meeting with her.

Greg: Ok. I will call you tomorrow in this regard.

Me: Thanks, Greg.

After reaching home, I visited Conscious Solutions website and immediately I made up my mind to enroll the program. I have also seen few testimonial videos and I am now fully convinced to be in the Training Industry and that too NLP.