Synopses & Reviews
Coaching with NLP For Dummies takes you through essential NLP coaching techniques and shows you how to get the most out of your coaching work. Whether you want to become an NLP coach from scratch or incorporate NLP skills into your existing coaching or managing roles, this book shows how to coach people in any personal or professional field. Using the key elements of NLP - rapport building, communication skills and mirroring techniques - you will discover how to establish goals and values, lead coaching sessions, ask the right questions and lay the groundwork for change. This essential guide also features handy one-stop resources, including recommended courses and qualifications around the globe and sample coaching scripts.
Coaching with NLP For Dummies: Shows you how to develop successful coaching relationships Covers information on identifying goals and setting a clear agenda for change Uncovers the most effective ways for coaches to tune into the values and passions of their clients Includes advice on the best ways to coach people through life's dramas, disappointments and dilemmas Features handy tips on the coaching traps to avoid and the best ways to enhance your coaching skills
Part I Where Coaching and NLP Meet
Chapter 1: What is NLP Coaching?
Chapter 2: Laying Foundations for Success
Chapter 3: Going for Quick Win Sessions
Part II Creating an Inviting Coaching Space
Chapter 4: Developing the Coaching Relationship
Chapter 5: Shaping the Agenda for Change
Chapter 6: Getting Greater Clarity
Chapter 7: Making Goals Come Alive
Part III Deepening the Awareness
Chapter 8: Tuning into Values
Chapter 9: Tapping into Passion and Purpose to Guide direction
Chapter 10: Shedding Light on Patterns
Chapter 11: Unpacking Strategies
Part IV Shifting Through Drama, Decisions and Dilemmas
Chapter 12: Developing Powerful Relationships
Chapter 13: Accepting Life's Disappointments
Chapter 14: Coaching Through Conflict
Chapter 15: Smoothing Career Peaks and Troughs
Chapter 16: Turning Time to an Advantage
Chapter 17: Switching the Experience
Chapter 18: Managing Emotional States
Chapter 19: Reaching the Parts that Don't Connect
Part V Part of Tens 30 pages
Chapter 20: Ten Questions to Ask when Hiring a Coach
Chapter 21: Ten Powerful Coaching Questions
Chapter 22: Ten Traps to Avoid in Coaching
Chapter 23: Ten Ways to Coach Yourself or Your Team
Chapter 24: Ten ways to Enhance Your Coaching Skills
Appendix
Synopsis
How to become an NLP practitioner?or supercharge your coaching skills with NLPOne 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.
Synopsis
Navigate your way through coaching with NLPWhether 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
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
About the Author
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction.Part I: Introducing NLP Coaching.
Chapter 1: Combining Coaching and NLP for Great Results.
Chapter 2: Gathering the Essential NLP Skills.
Chapter 3: Developing Your Coaching Alliances.
Part II: Building Core Coaching Skills.
Chapter 4: Shaping the Agenda for Change.
Chapter 5: Going for Quick-Win Sessions.
Chapter 6: Getting Greater Clarity.
Chapter 7: Making Goals Come Alive.
Part III: Deepening Your Awareness.
Chapter 8: Tuning into Values.
Chapter 9: Tapping into Passion and Purpose.
Chapter 10: Shedding Light on Patterns.
Chapter 11: Developing Better Strategies.
Part IV: Working Through Drama, Decisions and Dilemmas.
Chapter 12: Strengthening Relationships in Tough Times.
Chapter 13: Moving through Life's Disappointments.
Chapter 14: Coaching through Conflict.
Chapter 15: Smoothing Career Peaks and Troughs.
Part V: Advancing Your NLP Coaching Repertoire.
Chapter 16: Turning Time to Your Advantage.
Chapter 17: Shifting Experiences with Submodalities.
Chapter 18: Managing Emotional States.
Chapter 19: Connecting All Parts of a Person.
Part VI: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 20: Ten Powerful Coaching Questions.
Chapter 21: Ten Traps to Avoid in Coaching.
Chapter 22: Ten Ways to Enhance Your Coaching Skills.
Index.