THE POWER OF COMMUNICATION IN COACHING How to supercharge your skillset.
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o be the most effective coach and trainer I can be, I embed the powerful tools and techniques of Neuro Linguistic Programming in every training I deliver. To be an excellent coach, it is imperative to have excellent communication skills to be able to understand others. NLP helps you to deepen and develop these.
Seek first to understand. When you understand your client, the work you do as a coach is life-changing. You may also hear someone who has trained in NLP say it has also been a life-changing experience. Training in NLP offers a very a powerful shift on a personal and professional level.
WHAT IS NLP?
Steve Payne, Coach, Master NLP Trainer, Founder of The Academy of Coaching and Training, International Executive Coach, Keynote Speaker, Co-author of My 31 Practices.
Neuro Linguistic Programming has been described as the ‘art and science of personal excellence’. It’s all about the mind and the patterns that are programmed in and how we can change them taoct.uk for the better. It is a methodology for modelling steve.payne@taoct.uk excellence to obtain extraordinary results. It deepens our ability to understand ourselves and others on a new level and to identify with who we really are, what we believe in and why. It gives us opportunity to achieve the goals we set in life down in performance and thinking; when they limit us and and business when we free ourselves of unhelpful belief show up as unhelpful in our lives. systems. You may have heard the term ‘self-limiting beliefs’ NLP is a set of tools and techniques for understanding This means anything we think that tells us we ‘can’t’ or we the patterns of thinking and behaviour that we all run are ‘bad’ at something or limit our thinking around what unconsciously. These patterns are embedded from a very we can achieve in that area. early age and are built from what we hear, see, feel and experience as a child and the belief system we have built We are all different, we think differently, we have around that and what we believe to be true in our worlds. different sets of values and beliefs, we interpret differently, we make meaning differently. We ‘map’ experience It also provides processes for identifying and changing differently. The client’s ‘map’ of the world is always the those patterns when they don’t serve us and when they produce negative behaviours as a result that slow us starting point.
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