Coaching With NLP For Dummies

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.

Introduction 1 Part I: Introducing NLP Coaching 7 Chapter 1: Combining Coaching and NLP for Great Results 9 Chapter 2: Gathering the Essential NLP Skills 25 Chapter 3: Developing Your Coaching Alliances 47 Part II: Building Core Coaching Skills 69 Chapter 4: Shaping the Agenda for Change 71 Chapter 5: Going for Quick-Win Sessions 87 Chapter 6: Getting Greater Clarity 103 Chapter 7: Making Goals Come Alive 121 Part III: Deepening Your Awareness 137 Chapter 8: Tuning into Values 139 Chapter 9: Tapping into Passion and Purpose 151 Chapter 10: Shedding Light on Patterns 171 Chapter 11: Developing Better Strategies 185 Part IV: Working Through Drama, Decisions and Dilemmas 205 Chapter 12: Strengthening Relationships in Tough Times 207 Chapter 13: Moving through Life’s Disappointments 227 Chapter 14: Coaching through Conflict 243 Chapter 15: Smoothing Career Peaks and Troughs 257 Part V: Advancing Your NLP Coaching Repertoire 269 Chapter 16: Turning Time to Your Advantage 271 Chapter 17: Shifting Experiences with Submodalities 285 Chapter 18: Managing Emotional States 301 Chapter 19: Connecting All Parts of a Person 317 Part VI: The Part of Tens 333 Chapter 20: Ten Powerful Coaching Questions 335 Chapter 21: Ten Traps to Avoid in Coaching 343 Chapter 22: Ten Ways to Enhance Your Coaching Skills 351 Index 359