Why use a NLP coach?

By Rintu Basu Top performers in every area from sports through arts to business have coaches to help them reach and maintain the highest levels of performance. The benefits of coaching Just imagine a combination of your best friend, your most cherished teacher, your most hard-nosed manager, and your most positive guru available and committed to your personal development. How much more will you achieve when these resources are available to you? A coach will provide you all of this and more. Seems a bit like counselling or therapy? There are superficial similarities between coaching and therapy but there are fundamental differences. Coaching essentially is about commitment and development in the present moment to achieve future goals and outcomes. Many forms of therapy are about fixing problems from the past. In coaching you might discuss past issues but this is only in the context of future goals. Are there different forms of coaching? There are many different names for different forms of coaching. Lots of coaches and coach schools have marketing names for different types of coaching. In broad terms you can fit most forms of coaching into five categories. Peak Performance Coaching This is very common with sports where a coach is generally a specialist in a particular sport. Peak performance coaches also appear in business, a sales coach for example. Often peak performance coaches will have specialist skills such as NLP or Hypnosis. Many coaches have benefited from a good NLP Training Course. You will find coaches working in markets that they have credibility in. For example I get a lot of clients from the coaching, training and NLP community simply because they are circles I move in and I am known in them. As a result I have more experience and reference clients in these Coaching is usually about personal discovery, so coaches do not need skills and experience from the context they are coaching in. markets. But since coaching is more about the client's personal exploration and goals it is not necessary for coaches to have experience of the context. Life Coaching Life coaches cover a broader area and might be looking at different areas of a client's life and their relationship to each other. Executive Coaching Executives coaching is usually about the challenges and issues of leadership and can cover anything from personal style, stress reduction to finding your passion for the role. Lots of executive coaches will use a personality profiling tool as a vehicle for their client's to explore and develop their outcomes. Special events Coaching Some coaches will specialise in a niche area like presentations or writing and publishing books. Often they have specific experience, skills or qualifications in the area and they may not conform to traditional coaching models because of their 'insider' knowledge. Accelerated Success BreakThrough Coaching Sessions This is a highly specialised area of coaching involving leading edge psychological, NLP and Hypnosis tools to facilitate great changes very quickly. There are only a small number of coaches skilled in this area and also not all clients are suitable for this approach. Hence there is a lot of pre-qualification before using this form of coaching. For those it suits it has great impact very quickly. What happens on coaching programmes? Coaches are very individual in their approach. Also coaching is more about the relationship between client and coach so there is no set format or approach. Some coaches work just by telephone and / or email, whilst others stick exclusively to face to face interventions. A lot is dependant on how you set up the coaching programme from the initial consultation. Any coaching programme should start with an initial consultation where the programme can be set up. This would include duration of the programme, the sessions and overall outcomes and a whole raft of other areas that your coach will take you through. After this typically sessions will be about updating from the previous session, clarifying outcomes for the current sessions and then targeted discussions of the current issues. The session will finish with action plans for the client to take away and complete. That said each session can be as individual as the client and the coach want. Finding a coach Since coaching is such an individual context it is difficult to fix criteria for finding a coach. Although some general rules of thumb do apply. Coaching is all about a relationship between the client and the coach. Therefore in the initial consultation if the client does not feel they have great rapport that will allow them to be open and comfortable then it probably is not worth continuing. It is also worth talking to your prospective coach about previous clients, experience and approach. Often when picking a coach it would be worth talking to previous clients. The right coach will give you great value for money and could take you further than you had ever achieved without their support. It makes sense to spend a little time to ensure you get the right coach for you. You can find more in depth articles on finding a great coach on my website. Rintu Basu is the only NLP and Hypnotic Persuasion Trainer and coach in the UK. His latest venture is developing NLP in Scotland through good quality public NLP training courses. Find out more about NLP Techniques at the website.

The Benefits Of NLP Coaching

By Rintu Basu

A good NLP Coach will use a number of techniques on themselves and with their clients to get results fast. This article demonstrates the use of a great NLP coach and the techniques they use. Perceptual Positions an NLP Technique Perceptual positions is an NLP exercise geared to looking at a situation from multiple perspectives. Any given situation has several different perspectives and different information can be gain from each. The first is obviously your own, the second is the perspective from another person that is involved in the situation and the third is a neutral, unconnected perspective. Each of these positions would give you more information about the situation and the opportunity to influence what is happening. A fuller explanation of perceptual positions can be found on my website. A Business Coaching Example of Using NLP Techniques There are many NLP tools that a coach might use in the first instance, but for illustration purposes we will restrict this to just using perceptual positions. The coach might use this technique for themselves initially to get a flavour of what their client is thinking and, if it is a business context how the business views the situation. A typical business coaching situation might involve a client who has a new role that they have some doubts over. Perhaps they also don't know how to approach their new team and are unsure about what is expected of them. You could use Perceptual Positions for every part of this situation. Getting the client to look at the situation from the perspective of their new boss and doing a skills analysis from this perspective would give them confidence. They were employed for the role therefore someone has faith in them and seeing their skills from this perspective will help. Seeing the role from the perspective of the job and the organizations might yield clues as to direction, goals expectations. Looking at the new team's perspective and then getting the client to plan their approach from this and the organization's perspective might give them a different view of how to meet, motivate set expectations with the new team. Also, getting the client to imagine a future version of themselves that is happy, comfortable and settled in the role may help. But what if you took a neutral, observer perspective on the difference between the two and develop the action plan to take you from the current state to the future state? Coaching using NLP Techniques The illustration above was just to demonstrate how a foundation level NLP Tool could be used in multiple ways in a single coaching situation. The reality is that there are many powerful NLP Techniques a good coach will employ for you to get results. As an example, whatever you happen to be doing there is an ideal frame of mind associated with it. Athletes recognize this as being in the zone or a flow state. Any good coach will have a coach state they have anchored and can fire off to be in the right frame of mind to assist you as a client. If appropriate they could be showing you how to do the same for your role. The Real Power of NLP Coaching Techniques Language (both verbal and non verbal) binds the relationship between coach and client. But language is just a filter on our thoughts and impacts how we represent the world to ourselves. A good coach is trained to notice these filters in themselves and others and then can open or restrict them to provide a better frame on the situation. A good NLP Practitioner Course will show you how to do that and much more. This is why all good coaches study NLP. My expectations of a good hypnotic NLP Business Coach to that coaching situation described above would be to linguistically given you change strategies, installed empowering beliefs and set preframes that eliminate self doubt before you have even started the session. All of a saddened you might find yourself filling in the detail and getting results within a framework of fun coaching session. Anyone interested in getting great performance out of themselves should consider a coach…but if you are unreasonable, impatient and want those results faster then a NLP Coach is a serious consideration. About The Author: Rintu Basu is the only Hypnotic NLP Persuasion Trainer and Coach in the UK. Having developed high quality Hypnosis and NLP Training Courses Rintu maintains an exclusive coaching practice for individuals looking for big results fast. Find out more about high quality coaching and training at: http://www.theNLPcompany.com