Episodes
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
Purposeful Conversations with NLP
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
We often get nervous when we need to have a conversation that will give us something we want. We enjoy conversations for the sake of connection, but we don't know how to connect with purpose without becoming stressed or feeling manipulative. NLP offers you a better way to explore how significant conversations achieve connection and purpose.
Saturday Sep 18, 2021
How to use negatives better
Saturday Sep 18, 2021
Saturday Sep 18, 2021
Three important ideas for using negatives better:
1) Uncover the benefits of starting with what you don't want
2) You need to match other people (with a negative) before you can get them to shift to a positive
3) The brain naturally weighs loss more than gain; it takes an effort to focus on the positive (when you start with a negative, you can lend someone some of your willpower so they can make a shift)
Tuesday Jul 27, 2021
NLP Practitioner Basics: The Skills to Engage with Difference
Tuesday Jul 27, 2021
Tuesday Jul 27, 2021
The final episode in our series on the core skills taught in the NLP Practitioner course. On their final day, our practitioners apply everything they have learned to three fundamental activities: learning, collaboration and influence. The point of all of them is the same: to engage with difference so that we move beyond individual limitations to feel better and achieve more.
Saturday Mar 20, 2021
How Real is Zoom Fatigue?
Saturday Mar 20, 2021
Saturday Mar 20, 2021
According to researchers at Stanford, Zoom fatigue is real. But does that mean it's inevitable? Linda Ferguson offers an NLP (neurolinguistic programming) perspective on using your senses to engage in video chats and meetings. Linda references this TED talk on doodling and Adam Grant's recent podcast episode with Malcolm Gladwell.
Warning: this episode contains tips that might make you love connecting, even on Zoom.
Friday Sep 25, 2020
Agree More to Collaborate and Innovate in UncertainTimes
Friday Sep 25, 2020
Friday Sep 25, 2020
Less than 10 minutes to think differently about how to agree instead of disagreeing so that you let difference into your thinking. These are the skills that connect us and let us keep moving in uncertain times.
Saturday Aug 01, 2020
Conversation with a Point
Saturday Aug 01, 2020
Saturday Aug 01, 2020
Here's a quick anchoring exercises that uses NLP to set you up to have conversations when you have a result in mind. Before you can influence, you have to engage in a conversation and this will help you make the right choices so you get what you want more often.
Saturday Feb 10, 2018
An Introduction to Strategic Communication
Saturday Feb 10, 2018
Saturday Feb 10, 2018
Take about 20 minutes to walk through the basics of strategic communication. Learn how communication works automatically and how wanting something specific changes that. Explore why communication is always a part of how make positive change happen. Discover the three keys to being more strategic: 1) know what you want; 2) know what you have in common; 3) know what you don't know. And then walk through the core strategy for involving other people in making the change you want to see happen.
Sunday Apr 16, 2017
Jedi Mind Tricks
Sunday Apr 16, 2017
Sunday Apr 16, 2017
Are you a Star Wars fan? The new trailer is out for the 2017 movie, and it's a good time to think about Jedi mind tricks. Is there a process that you could use in real life to get other people to do stuff with less resistance and better results?
Learn how the Jedi:
- develop a mindful presence that allows them to read their environment through what is changing in themselves
- connect their big picture "what I want my life to mean" to their small, defined asks
- offer their full attention to the connection they need to make to get results
- describe what they want in sensory tangible detail
If you're not getting results you like when you ask other people to do stuff, listen and then check your process against this process. If you don't have the power to make people do things and you can't argue them into doing them, it's time for a different approach.
Wednesday Aug 10, 2016
Banish distraction through small wins
Wednesday Aug 10, 2016
Wednesday Aug 10, 2016
When there's too much in your head, too much going on inside you and around you, it's time for a little will power. You don't need to build barriers or use force. You just need to step back and ask "what's the one thing I want to do right now?" And then, when you know what to do, ask yourself "what state will support me in accomplishing just this one thing?" The way to trigger that state is to look for tiny changes you can make in yourself, your actions or your surroundings. Each change that begins to create the desired state is a small win. A series of these small wins leads to the state, which leads to accomplishing the goal. And as soon as you have, you can ask yourself again, "so what is the one thing I want next?"
Friday Jul 22, 2016
Suggestions can be more powerful than commands
Friday Jul 22, 2016
Friday Jul 22, 2016
Listen to this episode to discover how easily you are led to accept ideas that come from a trusted source in a relationship you value. Whether you are making or taking suggestions, it's appropriate to also take a deep breath and ask yourself: is this really what I want? how much of this motivation is a desire to stay connected? what else do I want now?