Synopses & Reviews
This is a must have book for any leader interested in improving their capabilities in engaging with people, teambuilding and managing change. David's alchemy is to mix traditional NLP, his love of eastern philosophy and his own business experience. There is one clear message that underpins this book: your unlimited potential is within reach now.
David R. Steele, Managing Director, International Paper Ireland
Finally we have a book written by a master of both NLP and management. This book decodes the jargon of NLP for the manager and shows how this powerful technology can make managers more effective and productive and businesses more profitable.
Wyatt Woodsmall PhD, The National Training Institute for NLP
This incredibly valuable contribution
has an amazing array of essential topics with plenty of practical examples and applications of NLP to management and business.
Marvin Oka, NLP Master Trainer, The International NLP Trainers Association
NLP is a powerful tool if you know how to use it. It can be used to enhance many aspects of performance, from decision making and communication, to strategic planning and creative thinking. For this very reason, NLP is crucial to all managers and leaders, yet many of us are still unfamiliar with its uses and benefits.
Now in its second edition, this bestselling book is specifically designed to help you learn how to apply NLP to many aspects of management. Background, concepts and techniques are all included, along with practical exercises to ensure you get a thorough grounding and understanding.
Completely revised and updated, and packed full of even more practical exercises, Managing With the Power of NLP is your means to achieving greater management success.
Synopsis
Learn to manage and perform with excellent standards.
About the Author
David Molden is a director with Quadrant 1, a vehicle for helping people be their best in whatever they pursue. Davids assignments include one on one coaching clients and a range of projects with large corporations, small businesses, and entrepreneurs.
Table of Contents
Foreword Preface
Key to margin symbols
Acknowledgments
Introduction
What skills would you like to master?
Feedback
Choice
Generative development
Getting the most from this book
chapter one HOW GOOD A MANAGER ARE YOU?
Your autopilot is it working for or against you?
How do you respond to problems?
What do you believe you are managing?
chapter two FROM IDEAS TO ACTION
How well do you communicate?
Your map of reality
How the NLP model of communication works
Your information filters
How your physiology impacts your results
chapter three CREATING DIRECTION
From here to where you want to be
Creating your direction
Making it happen
chapter four SELF-MASTERY
The sixth strategy state
Metaprogrammes
Achieving self-mastery
Orange circle thinking
chapter five POWER TO THE PEOPLE
People power
The business of empowerment
What kind of power do you have?
Generating power
Two important lessons on empowerment
A question of respect
Pacing and leading
Reframing
The empowering leader
chapter six EXPLORING YOUR MIND
Insights to the way people think
How people interpret what you say
Representation systems
The visual system
The auditory system
The kinaesthetic system
Internal dialogue
Submodalities
chapter seven THE POWER OF WORDS
Intention, purpose, and outcome
How true is your language to your experience?
Whats your chunk size?
Artfully vague language
Frame your thinking
Reframe your thinking
Learn to learn with metaphor
Is what you say congruent with what you do?
chapter eight INFLUENCE AND PERSUASION
Are you a trusting person?
Like me like you
Rapport
Sensory information
Pacing
Leading
Anchoring
chapter nine APPLYING NLP TO 13 EVERYDAY CHALLENGES
NLP and Stress Management
NLP and Time Management
NLP and Confidence
NLP and Personal Creativity
NLP and Group Creativity
NLP and Procrastination
NLP and Decision making
NLP and Presenting to Groups
NLP and Motivation
NLP and Meetings
NLP and Project Management
NLP and Managing your Friends
NLP and Building Effective Teams
Concluding thoughts
Glossary of NLP terms
Index