Top 6 Benefits of NLP in Business

How can neuro-linguistic programming help your business? NLP has come a long way since its inception in the 1970s. In the 40 years since, businesses have learned how to tweak certain aspects of NLP to generate more sales and profits, keep customers happy, and communicate more effectively. There are a few ways to do this. Train everyone in your business to practice and understand neuro-linguistic programming, and you will enjoy the following 6 benefits of NLP for business.

1 - NLP Helps Enhance Communication at All Levels

At its root, NLP is an approach to communication. Nonverbal communication cues, eye movement patterns and other unconscious actions take place when people communicate, think and remember. Understanding what someone's unspoken language can tell you about their mindset will improve the efficiency of communication throughout your business, and with your customers and prospects.

2 - NLP Allows You to Easily Copy the Successful Efforts of Other Businesses

Neuro-linguistic programming founders John Grinder and Richard Bandler explain that, with proper NLP training, "If any human being can do anything, so can you." This is because neuro-linguistic programming teaches you to understand how successful individuals and businesses work and communicate, even subconsciously. You can then model your behavior after them, using specific NLP strategies, to re-create those successes in your own business.

3 - NLP Gives Your Sales Staff Mind Reading Abilities

To say that neuro-linguistic programming can allow your salespeople to read minds is exaggerating just a bit. However, by understanding physical cues and lateral eye movements, your sales staff can cater the questions they ask and the information they deliver to meet your prospect or client where they are mentally. Understanding how a prospective customer feels about the sales experience while it is going on, and what they are thinking, makes it easier to close more sales.

4 - NLP Improves Negotiation Skills at All Levels

In business, you understand that life is one big negotiation. You negotiate with your employees everyday, with vendors, with competitors, with marketers, with advertising firms, your salespeople, and on and on and on. Since NLP helps you better understand and command any human interaction, the negotiation skills of everyone in your business become more persuasive and effective.

5 - NLP Boosts Morale

Imagine that everyone in your business, from your CEO and founder down to an entry-level employee, knows how to communicate effectively. They all know how to make themselves clearly understood, as well as fully understanding a coworker or senior executive when they communicate in person, in print, in video and on audio. When everyone understands what everyone else is saying, including the nonverbal cues that people give off, your business workplace is much more enjoyable.

6 - NLP is the Perfect Customer Service Tool

Whether customers contact your business to complain, to praise or to offer suggestions, neuro-linguistic programming lets you understand what is really on their minds. As you probably know, many times a customer complaints they are really responding to other stimuli. They are having a bad day, they just lost their job, they are having relationship problems or some other negative occurrence has upset them. When your customer care team can pick up on spoken and unspoken physical cues, they know better how to keep your customers and clients happy, and coming back for life.

John Soriano, MS, CH

www.breakfreewithease.com

How Can NLP Benefit Someone in Their Personal Life?

If you’re looking for help in personal development, learning NLP can give you a better understanding of how you function. It will allow you to have more patience with those people around you by giving you tools to respond effectively in any given moment. You will learn skills that will enhance your life and be of great benefit to you.

In the area of education, you can accomplish all your academic goals by learning how to learn best.

We learn that the mind acts like a recording device and processes information through the five senses. Through NLP you can discover which sensory system allows you to best take in information in the most effective way in any given situation.

Many people deal with learning issues. Spelling doesn’t have to be a problem once you shed strategies you may have been taught, that don’t work for you, such as trying to spell phonetically by sounding out words, which requires you to access auditory memory, when you might really be a visual learner and can conquer spelling with ease by recalling a picture of the word spelled correctly in your mind. Learning issues can vanish when you use the right sensory process and strategy for storing information and accessing your memory recall.

Want to be a better, more effective parent?

NLP helps you understand the basic differences between responses of the child’s mind vs. the adult mind. When you approach children from their map of the world, they feel understood and are much more willing to open up and really communicate. Until about age 8, children do not begin to develop the rational (left-brain) thinking of adults. With NLP you learn to pace the emotional world of the child, so that you are able to be in tune with how they think and why they behave as they do. They can grow up confident, self-sufficient and independent, and realize their full potential without having to go through therapy as adults to undo well-meaning but misguided parenting techniques. 

NLP gives you techniques to help you become a better listener and observer which radically enhances your effectiveness in all your relationships, be it with a partner, a child, a friend or a colleague.

If you desire to perform better at sports, mental attitude is of paramount importance whether you are competing in community activities or at higher levels. Your mental attitude is very much involved in what kind of results you achieve--whether positive or negative (and, of course, this applies to all endeavors, not just sports). NLP teaches you

how to put yourself into that optimum state they call “the zone.”

NLP presents methods that are effective and enduring, that enable you to clear the blockages from your past that may have been holding you back. You create the future you want as you begin to move in a positive direction.

You develop strategies for taking total control over your feelings, so that you are

the one in the driver’s seat. You accept responsibility for your feelings and actions at

any given time, and can move your life in the direction you want to go.

 With NLP techniques you can hone your mind into a concentrated focused state or access any resourceful state that you want at any time, allowing the flexibility you need to acheive your desired result.

John Soriano, MS

Certified NLP Master Practitioner

www.breakfreewithease.com