I ran an introductory teleseminar on NLP and put it here (see below!).

In any case, I will be pushing ahead to cover the following for preliminary NLP Teleclass Training. This will be probably the first ever in the world, and I will supplement this with training videos.

Note: if you are keen on being licensed in NLP, you must join me. I will be making available the licensing agreement, which you can fax over or scan and email to licensing =at= worldofnlp.com (please note to use the @ sign because I don’t want automated spiders grabbing this email address).

Pre-requisites:

You need a credit card to make full payment for the teleseries I will be running.
I intend to make this as inexpensive as possible but still giving you the ability to achieve your licensing goals.
You need to have a video recording device, even a basic camcorder, and at least 1 friend in your life who can help you with your practitioner assignments. if you are in Singapore, it will be a breeze just getting together.

NLP PRACTITIONER LICENSING CONTENTS (As required by The Society Of NLP, USA)

#1 - History Of NLP And Its Relevance To Practitioners
#2 - The Principles Of NLP
#3 - The NLP Communication Model
#4 - Calibration And How To Develop Sensory Awareness
#5 - The Principles Of Change, sensory modalities
#6 - Basic communication and persuasion
#7 - Creating Change in Habits Easily
#8 - Anchoring and the principles of conditioning responses
#9 - Reframing techniques
#10 - Stacking Anchors
#11 - Chaining Anchors
#12 - Sliding Anchors
#13 - The Swish Pattern
#14 - Mapping Across
#15 - Stacked realities and sensory overlapping
#16 - Driver submodalities
#17 - Submodality Transitioning
#18 - Change Personal History
#19 - Circle Of Excellence
#20 - Future Pacing
#21 - Change Belief
#22 - Perceptual Positions
#23 - Well-Formed Outcome
#24 - VK Disassociation
#25 - Compulsion Blow-out
#26 - Presuppositions
#27 - Meta Model
#28 - Milton Model
#29 - Framing and Pre-frames
#30 - more “Stuart Tan” stuff!

Join in now!

Full Payment Plan

3-Part Plan

I think a lot of people miss the point in coaching. I’ve just been in a radio interview with Melanie Yip from Radio Singapore International on the topic of coaching - specifically business coaching. After all, if you don’t want to do any NLP training, you can get someone who’s trained who can advise you.

Coaching is NOT just for people who are down and out. A good coach makes a difference between a major league player and a second tier player. Top executives from various companies have executive coaches. Top basketball players have coaches. The most important is to consider this: your coach MUST be someone who opens up possibilities for you, and sometimes, puts a foot in your rear.

Often, coaching entails three major things: a conversation, introspection and action. This three-pillar coaching approach has helped many people to dissect issues, open up prospects and help multiply business revenues many times over.

For those of you who are keen in getting a coach, you really have to ensure that you don’t fall for the myths of coaching.

1. It’s going to get me instant results.

Nobody will be able to guarantee you instant results. And I mean nobody! Getting a coach is often about opening up awareness of what you already can do, but never thought you could. For instance, you may need to cultivate a new set of relationships. You probably could have done that already, but you are going to need to do this again for a new set of people so that you can expand your results. Don’t expect these results overnight!

2. I’m problematic, that’s why I need a coach.

Well, if you were problematic, coaching would not be the best place for you, because it will probably take you a lot longer to unravel the problems. That’s quite important to realize - if you wait too long to get a coach, and if you do this only reactively, you are likely to only get minimal results. If a coach is there to get you out of a bad spot, you have to be equally prepared to see yourself through.

Like I said, not everyone who has a problem should have a coach. A growing business is also a sign that you need a good business coach - developing a solid business does not mean that you have a problem, right? You have to get a third-person perspective to gain clarity and feedback that can make a difference.

3. I give up my freedom by having a coach.

Look, having a coach means you want to do two things: increase possibilities in your choices and actions, and then figuring out which is the best choice (or set of choices) to make, then stick to it. Freedom has nothing to do with it. If you are making $500,000 in a year and want to scale it to $1.5 million, you will need someone to give you an idea of your internal (mental) processes, business operations and marketing plans. It starts with realizing that you might not have all the ideas all at the same time. A good coach can therefore help you with processing these possibilities into actionable steps and actions.

Need a coach? Leave me a comment below and let’s get our conversation going!

For the most part, people who want to get decent NLP certification should find out from practitioners who have helped others create results.

Unfortunately, the market doesn’t know this and runs to the first NLP Trainer who claims they have credibility. Some may have lots of experience, but may not be able to teach about the complexities of NLP, causing participants to lose out. After all, you won’t know what you don’t know.

Some people just quote famous trainers like Anthony Robbins. They forget that Tony Robbins has a different philosophy called NAC. Most people sideline Richard Bandler just because he’s the guy who originated NLP and don’t want to pay licensing fees. If you’ve never personally seen Bandler ‘live’, perhaps you’ll understand the difference between commercialized NLP and true genius.

In NLP trainings, you’ve got to choose people who are able to provide you the best possible information. Not just pure textbook information. That, we can get anywhere. what’s more important is the manner and attitude of doing NLP.

My opinion is that NLP practitioners ought to be trained and nurtured, not certified on a conveyor belt. Unfortunately because of this, too many people have jumped on easier certification routes, simply because you can get a cert in a 2 or 3 day training! Like getting a degree in just 3 days… wow. No wonder NLP has such a bad rep from some of these guys. What’s the point of getting a piece of paper if you don’t really know how to practice?

Here’s what you should learn in NLP at the basic practitioner level.

#1 - The over view of modeling!
#2 - Milton Model Language patterns
#3 - Submodalities
#4 - Meta Modeling (versions 2, 3 and 4)
#5 - Anchoring
#6 - Sensory Language and overlapping
#7 - Calibration
#8 - Basic Meta Programs
#9 - Intervention models

Of course it’s not the content that’s important but the way the content is taught that matters. IF you combine some of them, you’ll find very interesting flavors appearing in NLP.

At the end of it all, you know that the training is just the start and you’ll need time to gain competence. Beyond the practitioner level, you might want to become a Master Practitioner with advanced modeling skills.

Remember - check out if your trainer has been doing modeling and generating effective models using NLP.

Here’s what I’ve been using it for:
- Sales and persuasion ($74,755 in 90 minutes, coached others to increase sales)
- Business and internet ventures ($400,000 revenue in less than 8 months)
- Public speaking contest championships (Toastmasters District 51 Champion, coached others to reach championship level)
- Accelerated learning (read 20 books a week, anyone)
- Business creativity models (as in the business coaching I do)
- Counseling and therapy (used NLP to model top therapists at their best, healing others’ psychological impasses)
- Coaching (teach people how to coach effectively)
- Teleseminars (running powerful seminars through the telephone)
- Writing a bestselling book (three books to my name to date, with three more on the way)
- Mentoring (how to effectively mentor someone)

I think I can add more to the list, but the idea is that we have lots of potential to learn, and we can master learning easily if we know how to leverage NLP.

I recently discovered something. In a public training, when I let participants choose where they ought to sit, they automatically sat in places where they had the center of the stage as their preference area.

In other words, those sitting on the right (facing the stage) had their preference areas to the left. Those sitting on the left (facing the stage) had their preference areas of the right.

What is a preference area?

Well, you’ll think of two independent images of two people. One whom you like, the other you dislike and place them side-by-side. You’ll realize that they fall in place naturally. If the person you like is to your left, then your preference area will be naturally left as well.

This way, you will understand that other people too have preference areas, and adjust the way you stand, and the location you stand in relation to their preference area. They are going to be more readily persuaded.

NLP is a great way to propel yourself toward success. If you need to make things happen, then listen to the teleseminar here! It spans around 50 minutes of solid content (worth $47), just to help you think about your new year.

Oh… Happy 2008!

This podcast was done by me to help people stop thinking of NLP as just a piece of paper certification. It can be a very powerful thinking system and modeling system. So those who are interested in the NLP Modeling approach should listen to this and register on this blog or at www.NLPTeleseminars.com to get advanced notice about our specialist NLP certification training programs happening soon.

My protege, Perry Lai, interviewed me in this informal sit-down session about NLP. It’s mover 50 minutes long, so enjoy while you can. Let me know your thoughts through the comment box. To be notified of more teleseminars, make sure you have opted into our mailing list! OR, go to www.NLPTeleseminars.com to register for LIVE teleseminar updates.

I suppose many of you would realize by now that NLP is about modeling other successes. But what if there has never been an NLP model for your industry or area of study? Well, learning NLP has been about testing and measuring. It’s what we do best. Do A, and if you don’t get the result you want, do B. It sounds more simplistic than it is, but you should get a rough idea.

My approach to NLP is “Core Needs”. Every industry, every trade, every person has a set of core needs. They don’t always overlap. So here’s an interesting view of how you can think of NLP from this kind of categorical thinking.

SALES PEOPLE - INSURANCE
Basic outcome: increase rapport with clients, increase appointments, increase conversions, request for referrals.

SCHOOL TEACHERS - EDUCATION
Basic Outcome: increase rapport with students (different from above), time distortion, curriculum planning, outcome assessment, vocal projection, charisma, story telling.

Essentially what I’m saying is that there is a basic set of skills and competencies that will be necessary and sufficient for you to achieve patterns of excellence within your FIELD. Granted, though there are other things that are essential for yourSELF: emotional management, personal motivation, personal healing, alignment, discovering your passion, etc.

For more information about Core Needs NLP, join us for our Foundation training in Early 2008 (Asia for now)!