How NLP helps in Leadership

What is NLP??

Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP, offers realistic ways to improve your way of thinking, interpret past events, and approach your life.

NLP teaches you how your mind, and therefore your life, can be regulated. Controlling of your mind is the most important skills in achieving any goals because if your mind always focusing on the “why”, if you can control your mind then you always focusing on “how”

I will give you an example:

Why I’m wasting my life? (Mind focusing on why only)

How I can change my life? (Now the focus change from why to how)

So, now it depends on you that your mind becomes your best friend or your worst enemy.

“You can’t always control what happens, but you can always control how you deal with it”

Richard Bandler, Alessio Roberti, and Owen Fitzpatrick, How to Take Charge of Your Life: The User’s Guide to NLP

What are the main senses of NLP??

We as Humans have five senses. We see, we hear, feel, smell and we taste. We use these senses to decode all the information that is coming to us in daily life.

In other words, what sorts of words do you use in the representational system? Are the words that are visual, auditory, or kinesthetic? Or even olfactory or gustatory, perhaps? Representative structures are broken down into five main chunks in the NLP:

Visual (V) - Pictures, words, imagination

Auditory (A) - words, sounds

Kinesthetic (K) - internal feelings and emotions, external touch

Olfactory (O) - Smell

Gustatory (G) – Taste

Individuals with a visual system preference sort the environment by how it looks. What they see is more important than what they hear or feel. They will use picture descriptions a lot in their language like see, appear, view, look, and will often look up as that is how we access pictures in our minds. Visual preference people can be very creative and are often attracted to professional that make the most of those skills.

For people with an Auditory preference, what they hear is more important than what they see or feel. They prefer to talk things through over reading something, so may well call you to discuss the email you just sent! They learn by listening and discussion and debate are important to Auditory so they won’t make quick decisions on important things, they will need to discuss it.

People who are kinesthetic, what they feel is more important than what they see or hear. These people are either very in tune with their feelings or use external touch to guide them - or both! People with a Kinesthetic preference rely on their feelings, they take a little bit longer to process information than others because they are checking in with how they ‘feel’ about what’s just been said.

How NLP helps in Leadership?

Experience shows that those organizations that invest in the softer skills of the people they employ in managerial and leadership roles become more efficient, forward-looking, and industry-leading. To excel, the managers and leaders of today require subtle skills that include being able to motivate and work to get the best out of the individuals they lead.

Let us discuss some important skills which NLP provides:

• Communication abilities, deep listening. Use straightforward, strong language and a format or framework that will appeal to anyone in your audience.
• Help leaders gain clarity on what they want, which is important to provide clear and strong guidance
• Understand the structural essence of communication, including the subtle dynamics of non-verbal control, with and within teams
• Understand the thought and emotional structure of teams and people within these teams and how they work together.
• Setting persuasive objectives and empowering individuals by 'selling' them the vision of the team or company and getting their 'buy-in' to this vision
• Acquire the behaviors and values underpinning confident management
• Influence the workplace so that people can be constructive and efficient

NLP includes, as we have shown, a large range of strategies and methods that can be used in all areas of life. Our quality of life will significantly improve by studying them and using them in our daily interactions, while we could also enrich the lives of those around us. We will be able to achieve our objectives in a very satisfactory way by properly practicing NLP techniques and overcoming any challenge that stands in front of us. As the NLP presupposition says “everybody has the resources they might ever need”, we already have what it takes, and we only need to learn about it.

In the end, I would like to give one important suggestion to readers, that always invest in improving yourself, believe me, these skills will always give you benefit in your career, life, or character building.

Although this is a never-ending debate, I am happy to discuss the opportunities and require any healthy discussion on this topic.