NLP At Work : The Difference That Makes the Difference in Business

(Steven Felgate) #1

Unique thought patterns


“All too often content and style are overlooked by designers
caught up in whizz-bang technology.”
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f you want to know how to get your message across in a
way that is readily understood, then learning how to
recognize and choose appropriate thinking patterns is
key to your success. Each step forward in this skill will lead to
increased mastery of your experience. Combined with other
NLP skills and techniques, it gives you the ability to
reproduce with consistency not only other people's talents,
but also your own. By learning how you do what you do, you
turn luck into planned achievement.
Learning about thinking patterns is part of the skill package
we require to deal with the many different cultures with which
we come into contact. Most of the teams I consult with are now
multicultural. Even if the team members originate from the same
country, each person still has their own style, their personal
culture. We need to learn how to recognize, understand, accept,
and relate to these different styles if we wish to navigate our way
in business professionally and successfully.
By exploring the structure of how we think we can begin to
understand the subtleties of different cultures. And we can do
this as we encounter them—we do not need to research for
months in advance of a possible encounter or journey. The
value of learning NLP is that we can use it in real time.
The connections you make and the way you represent
memories, ideas, and information are unique to you. Everyone

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