How Nlp Can Cultivate Leadership Skills

Occasionally dubbed "new age thinking", many dismiss the benefits of NLP without realising the breadth of its appeal. In many ways, NLP is about confidence; talking the talk and walking the walk so that those around you invest respect; seeing and treating you too as a leader. The appeal reaches from the boardroom of the city to the changing rooms of great sports teams, but it's aim is clear; restructuring how we do things in order to do them better.

The technique was developed in California in the 1970s, part of the reason so many dismiss NLP without investigating how it could help them. Linguist and student Grinder and Bandler began exploring the correlation between how we act and how successful we are in life. Thousands of studies later and they were able to prove their hypothesis that mimicking successful traits can breed successful people.

In a corporate environment, NLP unpicks the mechanics of how the whole team interacts; individual relationships and the wider dynamics of the team. It can be employed when something has just started to go wrong, to cure a problem that seems to be endemic and inescapable or to simple improve a good thing. But above all, it enhances leadership; teaching new skills and strategies to help get the best from a team.

Following a string of seven defeats, former City boss Mark Hughes enlisted the help of an NLP practitioner at Rovers, to the ridicule of fans and friends alike. Yet after only a few sessions the team turned around their luck, winning seven of their next eight matches.

In the same respect, leadership is the lynch pin of that office and strong and confident leadership in our present economic climate is also a sink or swim issue. NLP can transform leadership styles as well as the reaction of the workforce to those styles and the leaders behind them.