NLP and Common Sense for Coaches, Managers and You

This book helps you discover who you are and what really motivates you through Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP).  It provides a life manual and a tool-kit for self-transformation based on the premise that your thoughts and actions in the present create your future.

NLP is a process of discovering and subsequently changing patterns, habits, strategies and mental programs that control everything you do.  The author explains the basics of NLP to give you an understanding of how you communicate with yourself and others.  He discusses how we make internal representations, maintain beliefs, make decisions and use language to filter information.  Also, we have a set of pre-suppositions (beliefs) about ourselves and the world we live in which directly influences our behaviour.

Roger Ellerton asks you to identify whether you are living your life at cause or effect, that is, active creation and self-responsibility or attributing circumstances to the influence of others.  Are you creating the life you want or are you a helpless victim?  NLP can help you take charge.

Chapter titles include: Getting to know yourself and others, Improving your communication, Making personal improvements, Freeing yourself from the past, Achieving what you want in life, and Making a difference in business.

This is a well-written text that explains NLP clearly and provides a raft of exercises and methods to re-program yourself.  While that sounds a tad clinical, the techniques are quite clever, creative and interesting.  There’s plenty of new tricks to learn and much for you to do here.  Also, there’s a ‘representational systems preference test’ included at the back so you can determine whether you prefer to use visual, auditory, kinaesthetic or auditory/digital modes of communication.