Today I spent the day on a training course entitled The Language Of Influence. This course was all about being introduced to the power of language, using the principles of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).
The name of the field refers to (Neuro) the human nervous system, including the brain and the five senses, (Linguistic) the verbal and non-verbal languages with which we communicate and (Programming) the ability to structure our neurological and linguistic systems to achieve desired results.
NLP was developed starting in the early 1970s by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, when they set out to model the work of geniuses in the field of human communication and change. The term NLP is used to describe both the approach to modelling that they used, and the powerful models of communication and change they created (and have continued to develop.)
This one day course served as an introduction on how you can say what you normally say more effectively, by using tonality and gestures, along with adjustments in sentence structure to communicate more effectively, and its power was beautifully demonstrated by our trainer, Jamie Smart (director of Salad), who kept 15 people rapt with attention all morning and in to the evening.
It’s given me plenty of ideas on how I can use NLP to improve both my verbal and written communication, and I would imagine that I’ll be investing in a few publications to investigate it further.
If you are interested yourself, feel free to contact me here, or check out Salad’s website and sign up for the weekly NLP tip email.
