Manage your team: agile leadership through NLP

Goals

Create a constructive spirit in your team and develop flexibility

• Develop and maintain quality relationships, be comfortable with your teammates
• Be adaptive, show flexibility in your relationships with your teammates
• Create a constructive spirit in your teammates
• Manage your emotions and welcome those of your teammates

Target audience

Director, team leader, manager, coach, middle management, project leader, trainer… anyone in a profession that requires quality relationships and would like to improve one’s communication skills

Prerequisite

To occupy a management function

Contents

What is Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)?

• Premises of NLP
• Perceptions
• Predicates: our five senses

Tool 1 – “Objective” strategy

• Turn a problem into an objective
• Set a clearly defined, positive and operational objective
  • Choose objectives from a long-term perspective
  • Match personal values with professional goals

Application on management: general and personal rules, for me, my team and collaborators.

Tool 2 – Mobilise your energy: "anchoring your resources"

• Choose your personal resources in view of the objective
• Anchor reflexes to mobilise the desired resources
• Control limiting emotions
• Eliminate unnecessary emotions

Application on management: general and personal rules, for me, my team and collaborators.

Tool 3 – Preparing for success: “visualisation”

• Imagine success
• Visualise success

Application on management: general and personal rules, for me, my team and collaborators.

Tool 4 – Take an interest in emotions: “calibration”

• Closely observe your conversation partner
• Take your emotions into account

Application on management: general and personal rules, for me, my team and collaborators.

Tool 5 – Adapt to the perceptions of the other: "the VAKO"

• Listen to the preferred sensorial registers
• Communicate in the same registers
  • Listen in silence
  • Rephrase to revive
  • Resume for validation

Application on management: general and personal rules, for me, my team and collaborators.

Tool 6 – Ask the right questions with “the metamodel”

• Identify language inaccuracies
• Ask to specify generalities
• Point out inconsistencies

Application on management: general and personal rules, for me, my team and collaborators.

Tool 7 – Create the right relationship: "synchronisation"

• Make contact
• Stay tuned
  • Adapt yourself to the other’s frame of reference

Application on management: general and personal rules, for me, my team and collaborators.

Tool 8 – Fluently present your ideas: “reframe”

• Transform a negative experience into a positive one
• Handle objections
• Adapt yourself to the other’s frame of reference

Application on management: general and personal rules, for me, my team and collaborators.