Consistent ability to persuade is your key to true coaching power..

by instep on September 12, 2009

Some years ago I came across NLP as a coaching and selling tool. Well, ok – it is a tool that can be used for coaching and selling purposes.

NLP is everywhere – but you get what you pay for..

The basic parts of NLP can be found in a ton of books and DVDs – or just to to Youtube and search. You will find great stuff on most areas – eg rapport building, future pacing, anchoring. You will also find a lot of BS that claims to be great.  I know because I seem to have bought most of it over the years.

Good news for Coaches

About two years ago I came across a section of NLP called ‘Sleight of Mouth’. It is a strange name, but gives a structure to people’s beliefs. Yeah – right – so what?

Well – it took me a while but one analogy that might help understand the amazing power is to consider the structure of a house. A house has supporting parts, separating parts, a floor, a roof. When we understand the structure of a house – and know what parts MUST be there and what parts can be moved without the house falling over – we get to have a wonderful opportunity to renovate safely.

“Renovate” your clients or prospects beliefs

Sleight of Mouth gives us the ability to ‘renovate’ beliefs. And in general it is our beliefs that determine our success in life. The slight flaw in the analogy to a house structure is that Sleight of Mouth is done in a ‘conversational’ manner. There is no overt hypnotism, and nothing appears that dramatic – except that beliefs can be changed with a gentle sentence or two. And there is a choice of two dozen different tools that you can use for ‘belief renovating’.

The course that I bought over two years ago is this one: http://bit.ly/6vx0y

It is presented by Doug O’Brien who was a top Tony Robbins trainer. It is interesting, flows well – and just watching it will improve your selling and coaching skills, and you will begin to start wondering what other obvious things most of us are simply not seeing! If you practice it – your communication and persuasion skills will skyrocket – even if they are great now.

Harlan – who co-presents this awesome skill builder calls it “Verbal Aikido”. I agree. I also think the price of this course is covered just by the introduction that talks about perspective affecting our reality. If is fully guaranteed – but I don’t think there are very many claims. I still have mine.

I am happy to endorse just about everything that Harlan puts together, and I have several of his programs.

Go here now and read the sales page. http://bit.ly/6vx0y You will even notice great persuasion structures built into the sales page. And if you don’t see it – it just proves even more that you need the course asap.

Who are you going to be today?

Have fun

James

Ps By the way – you do not need to have prior NLP training to be able to immediately use Doug’s Sleight of Mouth magic.

Pps check out sleight of mouth on youtube – but BUY Doug’s DVDs.  It will save you a lot of time.

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