Coaching with Nlp for Dummies - Paperback

by Kate Burton (Author)

How to become an NLP practitioner?or supercharge your coaching skills with NLP

One of the most popular methods for helping people achieve their life aspirations?Neuro-Linguistic Programmming, or NLP, holds the key to remaking one's future. NLP encourages users to re-create the thought patterns common to those who excel, a process that helps gradually weed out negative or habitual thinking. Using the key elements of NLP?developing a coaching relationship, shedding light on patterns, managing emotional states, and shaping an agenda for change?this practical, inspiring guide offers the tools for helping your clients upgrade the quality of their personal or professional lives.

• Reveals ten powerful coaching questions, ten traps to avoid in coaching, and ten ways to enhance your coaching skills
• Offers tips on laying the foundation for success and quick win sessions
• Insights on how to tap into passion and purpose?and making goals come alive
• Methods for coaching yourself or your team and coaching through conflict
• Other books by Burton: NLP For Dummies, NLP Workbook For Dummies, and Building Self-Confidence For Dummies

Ideal for those working towards becoming an NLP practitioner or master coach, Coaching with NLP For Dummies is a guidebook to life transformation?for both client and practitioner.

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Learn to:

• Develop successful coaching relationships
• Identify goals and set a clear agenda for change
• Coach people through life's dramas, decisions and dilemmas
• Avoid coaching traps and find the best ways to enhance your skills

Navigate your way through coaching with NLP

Whether you want to become an NLP coach from scratch, or want to incorporate NLP skills into your existing coaching or managing role, this book shows you how to coach someone in any personal or professional field. Using the key elements of NLP - rapport building, communication skills and mirroring techniques - you'll discover how to establish goals and values, lead a coaching session, ask the right questions and lay the groundwork for change. This book is packed with handy resources, including sample coaching scripts, forms and activities. Coaching with NLP For Dummies shows you how to use your NLP skills within a coaching environment and guide your clients to success.

• Working together - discover where coaching and NLP meet
• Build solid foundations - strengthen your core coaching skills within sturdy NLP structures
• Deepen your awareness - develop your understanding and discover how to re-engineer unhelpful strategies
• Day-to-day issues - learn from the tough times and explore how to approach real-life challenges
• Take the next step - advance to the next level as you develop your NLP coaching repertoire

Open the book and find:

• The key attributes of an NLP coach
• Tips on increasing rapport
• How to build trusting relationships
• Advice on engaging all the senses
• Expert guidance on what makes others tick
• Techniques for coaching teams
• How to avoid the drama triangle
• Tips on coaching through conflict
• Ways to become more personally effective

Author Biography

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. She brings her extensive knowledge of practical NLP approaches to enable leaders, teams and individuals to be the best they can be. She's also the bestselling author of four other Wiley books including Neuro-linguistic Programming For Dummies and Live Life, Love Work.