Coaching with NLP For Dummies®

Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

What You're Not to Read

Foolish Assumptions

How This Book Is Organised

Part I: Introducing NLP Coaching

Part II: Building Core Coaching Skills

Part III: Deepening Your Awareness

Part IV: Working Through Dramas, Decisions and Dilemmas

Part V: Advancing Your NLP Coaching Repertoire

Part VI: The Part of Tens

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I: Introducing NLP Coaching

Chapter 1: Combining Coaching and NLP for Great Results

Establishing the Differences between Coaching and NLP

Pursuing a Coaching Career

Defining coaching

Surveying opportunities

Identifying potential

Recognising boundaries with therapy and consultancy

Starting with NLP

Appreciating structure

Relying on a robust framework that really works

Turning to tools and models for change

Getting into the Dreaming Habit

Chapter 2: Gathering the Essential NLP Skills

Increasing Rapport

Pacing and leading

Tuning into non-verbal communication

Flexing your communication style

Connecting with the whole person

Working with Some Key NLP Assumptions

The map is not the territory

People are more than their behaviour

Individuals are resourceful

Getting Beneath the Surface

Uncovering language's meaning: Two key models

Playing with the time dimension

Separating process from content

Capturing the secondary gain

Modelling Excellence

Finding and following exemplars

Shifting to unconscious competence

Moving from confusion to congruence

Chapter 3: Developing ...