Summary

Turn positive thoughts into positive action

Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) provides essential building blocks for discovering how people think and manage their emotional states. This practical guide shows you how to unwrap core NLP skills such as rapport-building and mirroring techniques, and enables you to use them to achieve personal and professional fulfilment. So whether you want to build your self-confidence, communicate effectively, or make life-changing decisions, this book gives you the tools you need to succeed.

-Unlock the essentials – discover the strength of NLP techniques and find out how to make them work for you

-Make friends and influence people – discover how to push people's buttons and get the most out of rapport-building techniques

-Open your NLP toolkit – unravel your subconscious and re-programme negative associations and habits

-Talk the talk – maximize the power of language and become a hypnotic communicator

-Integrate your learning – discover how to make the changes that make a difference

Open the book and find:

-The twelve NLP assumptions – and what they mean for you

-How to create a formula for success

-Tips on becoming a more confident presenter and communicator

-Techniques for making and breaking rapport with other people

-How to grow from past experiences

-Ways to drive your habits in the right direction

-Advice on how to ask the right questions

-Recommended resources to take your learning further

Neuro-linguistic Programming For Dummies contains the essential building blocks of NLP. The main theme centres on the NLP approach to goal setting; how people think, their mental strategies, how they manage emotional states and how they understand the world. This jargon-free guide will help readers apply the practical techniques of NLP and help them fine-tune key life skills, from building rapport to learning from setbacks and being persuasive.

The new edition refreshes the current material with updated examples, case studies and recommended further materials throughout, while adding new content on New Code NLP, Symbolic Modelling, Clean Language in the workplace and Energetic NLP - techniques which were developed after the publication of the 1st Edition

Author Biography

Romilla Ready is an NLP Master Practitioner and the architect of 'Relationship Wizardry in Business', a programme of training and coaching for business executives.

Kate Burton is a leading international executive coach with a background in corporate communication in IT, and works with clients such as HP, KPMG, and Microsoft. Romilla and Kate are the authors of the best-selling Neuro-linguistic Programming Workbook For Dummies.

Introduction
Introducing NLP
Getting to Know NLP
Looking at NLP Assumptions
Who's Steering the Bus?
Taking Charge of Your Life
Winning Friends and Influencing People
Pushing the Communication Buttons
Seeing, Hearing, and Feeling Your Way
Creating Rapport
Understanding to be Understood: Metaprograms
Opening the Toolkit
Dropping Anchors
Sliding the Controls
Changing with Logical Levels
Driving Habits: Uncovering Your Secret Programs
Time Travel
Smooth Running Below Decks
Using Words to Entrance
Getting to the Heart of the Matter: The Meta Model
Hypnotising Your Audience
Stories, Fables, and Metaphors: Telling Tales to Reach the Subconscious
Asking the Right Questions
Integrating Your Learning
Dipping Into Modelling
Making Change Easier
The Part of Tens
Ten Applications of NLP
Ten Books to Add to Your Library
Ten Online NLP Resources
Ten Movies that Include NLP Processes
VII
Resource List
Rapport Building
The Well-Formed Outcome Checklist
Index
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