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If NLP is about improving communications why does it not have a title that communicates itself more clearly? The original books on NLP ('Frogs into Princes' and 'The Structure of Magic') give the impression that NLP is the art of magicians. No wonder sales forces around the world are being trained in NLP. But several research studies have questioned the effectiveness of NLP. On the other hand, trainers using NLP techniques may be wandering, poorly equipped, into the world of therapy.
Key issues about NLP are presented in two (free to view) articles in the Training Journal. The debate is kicked off by Garry Platt who presents a fairly critical view of NLP (based on many research studies). See: NLP: Neuro-Linguistic Programming or No Longer Plausible?. Sue Knight replies with NLP: Neuro-Linguistic Programming or Never the Less Popular? Also see Dylan Morgan's A Scientific Assessment of NLP which was published in the Journal of the National Council for Psychotherapy and Hypnosis. Professor Robert Todd Carrol's article about NLP in The Skeptics Dictionary will help to keep your critical faculties alive when you encounter NLP. Below you will find the NLP books with the best reviews listed first, starting with an affordable, low cost, clear and practical introduction to NLP by Andrew Bradbury. (Roger Greenaway) |
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Metaphors in Mind presents a broad integration of deep perspectives about helping people learn how to facilitate their own creativity in solving their own problems in their own way. Well done!
(Caroline Myss, Ph.D. best selling author of "Anatomy of the Spirit" and "Why People Don't Heal")
Tompkins and Lawley have written a book that provides people with a tool for profound analysis and insight. The use of metaphors as a means of evaluating how you order your world, your relationships, your occupation, and interpret the experiences of your life is invaluable. This book should be read by everyone who has an interest in expanding their awareness of why they say the things they do, and discovering how the 'contents' of their lives are sources of empowerment
(Ernest Rossi, Ph.D, Author of "Dreams, Consciousness and; Spirit" and "The Psychobiology of Mind-Body Healing")
NLP: NEURO-LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING
THE BEST OF THE ACTIVE REVIEWING GUIDE
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Roger Greenaway
What the Most Successful People Know, Do and Say
David Molden, Pat Hutchinson
Synopsis
Have you ever wondered how it is that two people faced with the same set of circumstances can produce opposite results? How some people seem to be able to achieve more whilst still remaining cool, calm and collected? There are people who just seem to have life sorted out the way they want it. We may refer to the more successful people as lucky but in fact Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) shows it's nothing to do with luck and everything to do with how we think. NLP is a powerful set of tools for making things happen for you at work and in life. Now Brilliant NLP makes mastering the techniques of NLP easy how it works, and more importantly how to use it to become more effective, efficient, powerful and successful. The potential is already there, inside you. This book shows you how to unleash it on the world! DON'T BE GOOD, BE BRILLIANT. (Amamzon.co.uk)
Driving Peak Performance with NLP
David Molden
Synopsis
Companies today stand or fall, not by the efficiency of their processes and systems, but by the talent of their people. By using the techniques of NLP you can develop talent and achieve success. This is the popular but definitive book of NLP for people who want to make exceptional progress for their organisations. It demystifies NLP and relates the theories and principles to current business challenges. Its practical techniques, methods, and examples drawn from leading practitioners in the field, ensures you can implement this straight into your everyday working life. NLP Business Masterclass takes the applications of NLP in business beyond simple everyday techniques, to consider the bigger challenges facing organisations today including: * How do you get the best from your people? * What's the best way of organising teams? * How can NLP help us to motivate people? * What about incentives and rewards for employees? * How do you change a culture and keep it alive? * How can NLP help my people to become more committed and responsible? * How can NLP help to develop leadership? You can learn more about NLP. Or you can have the Masterclass.
(Amazon.co.uk)
Andrew Bradbury
Synopsis:
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) offers an in-depth understanding of what really happens when we communicate, and the means to use that knowledge in maximizing the effectiveness of interpersonal transactions. This manual demonstrates that a person with a grasp of the basics of NLP can expect a significant improvement in every aspect of their business and social lives. It examines: setting effective goals; building good quality relationships; replacing conflict with co-operation; developing greater flexibility to respond to one's environment; and managing mental activities for greater self-management. There are mini case studies and action points.
(Andrew Bradbury)
The author has produced some intriguing and critical reviews of other NLP books. See 'Honest Abe's NLP book reviews'
Peter Young
Paperback - 360 pages, July, 2001
Sue Knight
Review: ... whether you want to become a better speller, mountain cyclist, negotiator, or manager, the basis of NLP is to watch someone you know who excels at the skill you would like to possess and ask yourself "How do they do that?"
... If you have never heard of NLP, read this book. Before you finish it, you will have started modelling. Sue Knight has a talent for making complex issues straightforward. Her writing style is elegant in its simplicity and concise in its structure. She explains, using remarkably relevant anecdotes and examples, her introduction to and involvement in NLP, what is means and how to model. In Part Two she shows her reader how to apply NLP, in an immediate, practical way, to a variety of work situations, from building relationships, dealing with organisational change, high-performance coaching and leadership.
... NLP Solutions is as good as an off-site, week-long, personal development workshop--in fact, better. (Carey Green, Amazon.co.uk)
Joseph O'Connor, John Seymour
Synopsis:
Joseph O'Connor and John Seymour draw on Neuro-Linguistic Programming modelling skills to provide practical assistance to trainers. Discover how the skills of top trainers can work for you, improve your presentation skills, enhance your self-confidence and learn to communicate on different psychological levels. (Amazon.co.uk)
Joseph O'Connor, Ian McDermott
Synopsis:
This is a guide to Neuro-Linguistic Programming and its application as a tool for personal development. It explains: what NLP is; how to use it in your life personally, spiritually and professionally; how to understand body language; and how to achieve excellence in everything you do. (Amazon.co.uk)
Ian Mcdermott, Wendy Jago
Harry Alder
no longer available from amazon.co.uk
James Derek Lawley and Penny Lee Tompkins
Based on a branch of therapy that has evolved from NLP via David Grove's work with ''clean language''. Similar but different to NLP. (Roger Greenaway)
Stephen R. Covey
Synopsis:
Presents the reader with a holistic, integrated and principle-centred approach for solving personal and professional problems.
Review (extract):
As with many self-help books, much of what you read here is based on basic common sense and can at times be irritatingly obvious. However, what Covey manages to do so successfully is to break down the barriers which prevent all of us from taking a long hard look at ourselves, and then gradually introduces new rules which allow us to move first from dependence to independence and then towards the ultimate goal of interdependence. But of course, the only real way to test the value of The Habits--be proactive, begin with the end in mind, put first things first, think "win/win", seek first to understand and then to be understood, synergise, sharpen the saw-- is to work on them. This book is as good as any place to start on the road to self-awareness and self-improvement in the workplace and in the home without becoming too irritatingly smug and self-satisfied. (Susan Harrison, Amazon.co.uk)
• For a critical review (and why this seen as NLP) see Honest Abe's NLP book reviews
• To reach a more balanced verdict
take a look at these conflicting reviews.
Roy Johnson
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