Coaching With NLP For Dummies

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

Navigate your way through coaching with NLP

Whether 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

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.

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.