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Friday, August 12, 2005

NLP Case Study - NLP skills help develop new business

David Regler, an Outsourced sales consultant and ecademy member, made the transition from being a sales manager to running a successful business after attending a series of Business master practitioner modules run by PPI Business NLP.

“What was good about PPI’s approach” David confirms, “was that it enabled me to develop my NLP skills, improve my business performance in tandem with my own personal development. It gave me so many new perspectives on starting my business.”

Specific NLP techniques that David uses in his business include state management, questioning and anchoring. State management enables David to leave his clients feeling positive and motivated, improved questioning skills help at every stage in the sales process and anchoring help David leave a positive impression about his services.

David Regler has developed a Sales Outsourcing Service to enable small technology companies to generate more sales, launch new products or enter new markets without diverting your core sales team and/or significantly increasing overheads.

The company’s main focus is helping clients during their first three years of a business when revenue generation is absolutely essential. The business is already on track to generate in excess of £1Million revenue within 3 years of launch.

David’s best results are due to his ability to understand his clients’ products or service and create compelling value propositions for their target market. This is based on a pragmatic mix of understanding market opportunities, sales process and the quality actions needed to prospect for customers and closing sales. On implementing this sales approach David’s clients can focus on building a pipeline of business that enables growth and further investment opportunities.

In many cases his clients are achieving goals that a few months back they would have thought impossible. David owes much of his success with clients to the executive coaching, presenting impact and hypnotic influence NLP master practitioner modules run by PPI Business NLP.

In taking this route and becoming a registered NLP master practitioner he was able to blend coaching with his sales consultative role for more rapid results.

Neuro Linguistic Programming was introduced as a tool for personal development 30 years ago. It is continually assessing and developing frameworks for understanding attitudes, it models successful performers and provides techniques for improving thought processes and communications skills.

Business NLP draws on these studies.

David can be contacted through his website on www.davidregler.com.

PPI can be contacted through www.ppimk.com their website has had over 380,000 hits over the last four years demonstrating the interest in Business NLP. Their Business NLP blog is available on www.nlp-blog.co.uk, their monthly newsletter from www.nlp-newsletters.co.uk goes out to over 3000 subscriber’s in 90 countries.

Thursday, August 11, 2005

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Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Checklist for getting prospects

Checklist for getting prospects - Coaching idea

During our NLP coaching seminars delegates find it useful brainstorming ways of attracting clients. These are currently the top thirteen.

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Checklist for getting prospects

All have advantages and disadvantages - however one or two are more likely to work best for your style and for your particular business.

There is a strong argument to start with what you enjoy. All require skill and persistence. There is only one test - does the activity, when carried out consistently produce results that improve your business. If not develop your approach or start a new activity.

  • Website, blogs and opt in email newsletter
  • Cold calling (may be combined with direct mail) and phone contact
  • Direct mail, including letters, postcards and leaflets
  • Traditional networking and referral building, Includes calling, emailing and socialising with past customers, work colleagues, contacts and friends.
  • Asking for recommendations as for who to contact. Also consider joining networking groups and industry clubs.
  • Electronic networking to support traditional networking or to develop new contacts. e.g. ecademy linkedin, plaxo, ryze, open BC
  • Writing, including press releases, case studies, customer referrals will support your other activities as well as generate new contacts
  • Speaking at public and industry events
  • Speaking or taking a stand at and exhibitions, conferences or specialist industry events
  • Organising paid or unpaid 'introductory sessions
  • Advertising or advertorials
  • Developing partnerships or agents
  • Set up a formal referral system
  • Employing sales people full time or on contract

and don't forgetPast customers, employers and colleagues may be a useful source of new business and leads. Even past conflict can be the basis of future rapport.

Also - keep testing! Two promotions of the same product or service can have very different results depending on the headline.

Michael - Director

PPI Business NLP Ltd

The Business NLP provider of choice

Our sister company http://www.execcoach.net/ is now No 1 on http://www.google.com/ for executive coaching

Kenricks NLP persuasion competition - response 2


The sharpest of the sharp persuaders are on my list.
Here's the next winner:
Kenrick,

In working his brilliant persuasive magic, Erickson's communication appears to be very simple on the surface. A deeper analysis of his language and behavior reveals techniques that are sophisticated and complex.

Erickson used multi-level communication and advanced psychological tactics in his persuasion with this boy, including:

1. Unconsciously establishing rapport by ordering the doctor to sit down (covertly sending the message to the boy that "we are not going to let him interfere", and building trust with the boy by "moving over to his side").

2. Employing the "Apply to Self" Metaprogram. When the boy stated, "You can't use that electric shock stuff on me", Erickson metaphorically "shocked" the boy through the unexpected and abrupt manner in which he behaved and communicated.

3. Pattern Interrupt. By doing the unexpected and utilizing the element of surprize, Erickson interruped the boy's unconscious and automatic patterns. The boy was expecting Erickson to treat him exactly as the previous doctors had (take a long history, focus on the boy's innapropriate behavior, lable him, etc.). When Erickson did not do this, but instead did the unexpected, the boy's pattern was interrupted, making him - unconsciously - available to Erickson's suggestions for change.

4. Pre-supposition combined with covert hypnosis / embedded command. Once rapport had been established, and the boy's pattern interrupted, Erickson "pre-supposed" the positive by assuming in advance that the boy would change. Undoubtedly, this pre-suuposition was delivered using an embedded command something like this: (underlined portion delivered with a slightly different tonality, empasis, or visual marker designed to send that "command" directly to the boy's subconscious mind without being recognized by his conscious mind):
"How suprised will you be when all your behavior changes completely next week?"

5. Creating a context to allow what he wanted to happen naturally. Erickson built psychological leverage and created the perfect context to allow the boy to make a new choice, one that would happen naturally. Rather than try to "talk" the boy into making a new, more positive choice, Erickson created a context that freed the boy to make new choices about his behavior, naturally.

6. Accessing Unconscious Resources. Erickson did not tell the boy what his new behavior would be, but allowed the boy's unconscious mind to have the freedom to determine what "behavior changes" it would select. Erickson gently led him in the right direction, and empowered the boy to utilize his own awesome unconscous resources to select the specific changes best suited for him.

Kenrick, how delighted will you be when you realize that this answer is the best, most thorough one you have recieved? And I am wondering whether you will notify me that I have won the contest on Monday, or if you will notify me on Wednesday...


Cheers,
Bill
How can you get sharp like Bill? Well for starters, get on the call tomorrow!
The call is Thursday, August 11 at 12 Noon Pacific Time.
We'll be talking about overcoming objections and the magical doorways to the mind.
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Speak to you tomorrow!
Warmly,
Kenrick E. Cleveland

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Kenricks NLP persuasion competition - response 1

Hi Michael,
I knew there were some great persuaders on this list but you astounded me.
In fact, the depth of your answers was so incredible, we've decided to award three prizes instead of one!

But before we report the first winning entry, let me remind you very few lines are available for my teleseminar on objections this Thursday.
Remember, as soon as you register, you'll get an email with all the details.
The call is this Thursday, August 8 at Noon Pacific / 3 PM Eastern.
http://maxpersuasion.com/objections.php?custid=MWRkelRPUDVUVEE9

Today's answer was provided by Mark Bossert:

What Milton Erickson did: He paced the patients conscious mind experience while both establishing his authority and communicating directly to his beyond-conscious mind to make the change.

Erickson saw and heard the states or level of trance the patient was in;
namely: afraid, hiding it with resistance and bravado; shock and deep confusion at seeing this guy on canes, who was:

1. Especially powerful to have all these Doctors and patients waiting to see him - and Doctors were a central power figure in the patients life at that time - being confined to Hospitals.

2. Messing with all these people so powerfully that they were completely zoned as they marched past after being in the room.

3. Who seemed to be - as the patient perceived - powerless.

4. The patient laughed and that led him into an extraordinary state of openness.
Erickson dealt with the Doctor as a subordinate - gimme the info and sit down! This instantly further deepened the patients trance state, fear and confusion - His doctor told the patient what to do; the most powerful person in his world was a servant to this guy with the canes...?

Erickson then paced the clients state with his voice tone and how he expressed himself - he surprised the patient by what he said, he asked how surprised he would be - pacing the patient's state, and he asked a question that if the patient answered by resisting and replied in the affirmative, the change would already begin.

He embedded the command "all your behavior changes completely" in the question. He future paced by setting the outcome of when it completed
- precisely enough to activate the change soon but vague enough to allow it to happen in the patients unconscious mind's time frame- next week.

He then completed the interaction by ignoring the patient - he's done with him and the cure is complete, dismissing the Doctor - furthering for the patient's conscious mind the idea that something powerful had been done to him but what the heck was it?

Meanwhile his unconscious was recreating his resources so he could deal with the outside world in a new way as "given" to him by the immensely powerful "Shaman" Milton Erickson.

How I can do it in my business:

See/ hear the trance state and elicit the needs of the persons coming in to buy a bed. Pace their trance (resistance to being sold or wanting an expert to tell 'em the best bed for them) and fulfill their needs.

Ask questions that are structured so that, if they answer as they are predisposed to, they are "coming up with the idea to buy - themselves".

Communicate direct to their beyond-conscious mind so that they somehow know that they are getting the best bed for them.

Way to go Mark. We'll be back with more answers tomorrow.
And sooner or later, I'll give you MY explanation of the story.
Speak to you Thursday!
Warmly,
Kenrick E. Cleveland

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Kenrick's NLP persuasion competition

It's one of the most remarkable stories about the legendary Milton Erickson.
The year was 1957 and Dr. Erickson was invited to present at the Palo Alto VA hospital.

The psychiatrists were lining up with their patients in the call.

They would enter a samll hall where Dr. Erickson would meet briefly with each patient.
When he concluded and sent them on their way, the doctors would nod their heads knowingly about Erickson's work.

Remember this story took place just one year after the AMA finally approved that hypnosis was a valid medical treatment modality.

One of the patients on the line had a small behavioral problem.

He stabbed everyone he met.

The kid and his doctor were waiting in line for over an hour and watching people come out in deep somnabulistic trances.
Frightened, the patient said, "You can't use that electric shock stuff on me."
His doctor told him to quiet down and wait.
Finally, they entered the room where Erickson was standing.
The patient laughed. Erickson, stricken twice with polios, was leaning on two canes.
He briefly asked the doctor for the patient's history and told the doctor to sit down.
He then focused on the young man and asked,
"How suprised will you be when all your behavior changes completely next week?"
The patient snorted, "I'll be very suprised."
Erickson turned to the doctor and said, "OK, you can take him now."
Everyone in audience snickered. They joked hypnosis doesn't work with wise-guys.
They missed the whole thing.
And the next week, the patient's behavior changed completely.
Amazing story. So what was it exactly
that Erickson did?
And how can you do the same in your business?
Why was Erickson the least suprised person when he got the news.

Please email me with your answers.
The best (most complete) answer gets a copy of Max Persuasion as prize.
If you think the answer is one or two words, I'll tell you right now you won't be in the running.
We've got some of the sharpest minds in
the Persuasion World on this list.
So the competition will be keen.
Entries must be received by Sunday night, August 7 midnight Pacific Coast time.
And we reserve the right to publish the winning answer and your name.
Looking forward to your ideas.
Warmly,
Kenrick E. Cleveland

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Sunday, August 07, 2005

Tony Gibbs - Not for profit NLP Newsletter

Welcome to the August 2005 edition of the free Tony Gibbs Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) newsletter. In this newsletter you’ll find

1. Choices
2. A question of motivation
3. News for charity managers

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1. Choices

Picture the scene – at the supermarket checkout idly browsing the cd rack when there it is,

‘The Essential Tracy Chapman’! And so you do the obvious thing, and pull your trolley out of the queue to study the track listing. But before I got as far as the tracks, a sticker on the front of the cd caught my eye, ‘Chosen by Tracy herself’ and this really got me thinking...

Were the tracks on this compilation really Tracy’s ‘essential’ choices? Had Tracy got fed up with her manager, record company, agent, hairdresser, fitness trainer or whomever, telling her what she should and shouldn’t include on her cd’s? ‘Don’t push me around anymore – it’s my album and I’ll put what tracks I like on it.'

Maybe it was meant to be a sign of Tracy’s artistic integrity, you know along the lines of ‘Let me guide you through the essential tracks of my career so that you can feel the angst as well as experience the creative process just as I did when writing and recording these songs in the first place.’ Whatever the reason, it stood out as something quite different and got me thinking about the importance of making choices.

First of all, how many of us are never able to make choices at all? You must do this, or you must do that, doesn’t really feel like much of a choice does it? Yet for many of us, that’s what life is like – a life without choices. In many respects, having choices, is the ultimate freedom.

So, if you have the opportunity to make a choice then that really is something quite special isn’t it? Yet why do so many of us beat ourselves up if we make a choice that seems like the wrong one?

If we have a choice to make, we all tend to go through a process to make a decision – it could be that the process is based on having had similar choices in the past (so we use our experience of how it turned out before) or alternatively, we gather as much information as we can to then make a decision (an informed choice).

Sometimes, even with all the facts before us, as well as the experience of making a similar decision in the past, it might be tough making the right choice, but in my experience, if you have the luxury of a choice at all, then that in itself is something to be grateful for – whichever choice you end up with may or may not result in the outcome you envisaged, but above all else, try reminding yourself that at least you were in the fortunate position of having a choice to make – and if the outcome is not as you expected, don’t dwell on it – move on and look forward to the next set of choices you’ll have.

It’s also something to bear in mind when you’re negotiating with someone – it can be really important, or something quite insignificant, but if you give someone a choice, they’re much more likely to respond positively to you than if you ask them to make a decision, yes or no, on one thing only. Try it out and you’ll see what I mean – alternatively, don’t: after all, it’s your choice…

In the meantime, did I buy ‘The Essential Tracy Chapman’? Of course not, as I already have all the tracks on other cd’s she’s recorded (where she may or may not have chosen all the tracks herself!) but one thought I would leave you with is this – if you have a choice to make between ‘The Essential Tracy Chapman’ or another cd, going for Ms C will mean that you’ve chosen a singer songwriter who knows how to make choices herself.

2. A question of motivation

Ask the right question and you'll have no problem getting what you want.
If you think about it, questions are pretty amazing things. Just speak the words and immediately your mind starts to look for answers; it's how we're built.

The only problem is, many people don't know the 'right' questions to ask.
In this newsletter I'm going to share a question with you that, when you ask it, will give you what you need to do whatever it is you want to do with your life.

When I first asked myself the question, I was so surprised at how fast it worked. The author whose idea it was said it would work every time, but I had my doubts. I was wrong. It worked for me, and I know it will work for you as well.

I first learned of this idea while reading an investment book several months ago. I entered the bookshop with the idea that I'd only browse, but I should have known better, as I cannot resist buying books. I soon left with a handful of books, one of which posed an insightful question about reaching a financial goal.

It seemed like a simple enough idea at first, but then I thought about it from the perspective of reaching one of my personal goals.

It was really amazing. Asking myself the question posed in the book changed the picture of my goal completely.

But I'm making an assumption I can't afford to make. The question asked in that book meant a great deal to me because I had a clear objective in mind. I knew exactly what I wanted.
However, if you don't know what you want, which is actually very common, all the tips in the world to achieve your goal will do little good for you.

Now for the question that will help you tap into the answers you're looking for.

The Question

Once I realised how simple and effective this method was in helping me with my own goals, I had to share it with others. And each time I found the same sequence of events.

When I asked each person about how they'd achieve their goal, they gave me the same basic response.

'I know what I want, but I'm not really sure how to get it. I wouldn't know where to begin.'This was the general feel I got from each person I worked with. They were missing the details of their plan and the intensity for their goal.

Then I asked them a question, just one question, and that changed everything.
Before I ask you this same question, I have to warn you, don't make the mistake of letting its simplicity fool you; it takes a sharp mind to recognise the power of a simple truth.

After asking the initial questions about their goals and listening to their response, I followed with this scenario:

'What would you do if you had only 90 days to achieve your goal or you would forever lose what you cared about most?'

This one question put quite a twist on things. Lose the most important thing in your life forever? With this ultimatum presented I got a very different response.

As soon as the question sank in the answers started flying. What was a foggy idea only minutes before became a clear and focused objective with amazing intensity behind it.
Every single person I asked had a list of things they would do to reach their goal, and the drive in their eyes made it clear that they meant it.

What You'll Experience When You Ask the Question

I was in the same boat with a few of my goals only months before. I told myself that I wasn't sure how to go about reaching them, that I didn't know exactly where to begin.

After asking myself that same question I looked at my goals from a totally different viewpoint. I didn't have time to question or doubt - I had to get moving.

The answers I couldn't seem to find started popping into my head as fast as I could create them. What I had here was an excellent method for tapping into the power within myself.
And now you have it too!

When you use this method with your own goals you will have a solid reason to believe that you possess the qualities of success within you. The answers are there, and this question will help you to uncover them.

So ask yourself, what would you do if you only have 90 days to achieve your goal or you would lose what you cared about most in your life. Ask it and then keep that thought in your mind as you make things happen.

It's possible. When you know the true meaning and method of motivation, nothing can stop you. Motivation is the most powerful and most important skill in life. You learn how to control this force and the world is in your hands.

3. News for charity managers and trustees

I’m delighted to say that after working on a brand new management qualification for almost a year, I’m involved in the launch of a new BTEC Professional Certificate in Voluntary Sector Management that you can now take with effect from September on a distant learning basis. This is a recognised qualification that you can study in your own time over a year, or on a more traditional basis by attending monthly workshops in various parts of the country.
This qualification is certificated by Edexcel and is available exclusively through charitytraining.com.

To find out more, just go to http://www.blogger.com/www.charitytraining.com or join The Skills Network for free at http://www.blogger.com/www.theskillsnetwork.com where there is a section devoted to the new BTEC Professional Certificate in Voluntary Sector Management.

That’s all for this month!

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Thanks and acknowledgements to Michael Beale, Peter Freeth and Jason M. Gracia