Thread: NLP Coaching | Framework

A Useful Guide to NLP as a coach | Extract 4

A NLP framework for coaching and mentoring

A framework is a guide, enabling you to put your full attention on your client. It serves to remind you where to go next and helps you to keep control of the coaching session and relationship. Improving your ability in just one of these areas can make a significant difference to your impact as a coach or mentor, whilst developing in more areas will have a cumulative effect.

It can be useful to consider each elemement sequentially

Beginning Frame

The beginning frame is the establishment of the rules for the coaching session, expectations of the coach and client, boundaries and anything which the coach and client may define as an over-arching aspect of the relationship.

State

Ensuring your state is appropriate for coaching will make a huge difference to the goals you set and achieve and the personal resources that you can call upon.

Outcome

Outcomes motivate you to move in a particular direction rather than being a specific end result as in SMART objectives.

Rapport

Rapport is a state of honest, open communication between two or more people and is very important in establishing the client’s situation and way forward.

Current Strategy

By accurately understanding how you are currently moving in relation to your goals, you can make any changes necessary to move further, faster.

Technique or Task

What will take you from where you are now to where you want to get to? The coach will have a number of tools and suggested tasks for helping a client fill in any internal and external resources required to achieve his or her outcome.

Future Pace

A future pace is an imagination exercise that develops a detailed connection between the coaching session and action in the real world. It is one of the key determining factors in achieving results.

End Frame

The end frame closes what was started in the beginning frame; it also allows the coach to reinforce the positive elements of the session and the coach and client to step back from the session and manage the longer term coaching relationship.

NLP elements for use in the framework

The following NLP elements can fit anywhere in the framework to support you. Elements are key aspects that can be focused on during the coaching process.

Values

A value is a label for what is important to you at a core level. These may be very different to corporate values which can tend to be rather generalised.

Value Rules

Value rules define how your needs are met in the outside world and how you know whether your values are being achieved or not.

Beliefs

A belief is an underlying assumption about the world which either helps or hinders you in achieving some outcome.

Senses and submodalities

All of our knowledge and experiences are acquired and organised through our senses. Understanding how we structure those experiences is key for change. In NLP our senses are sight, hearing, feeling, taste and smell. Submodalities are identifiable qualities of these senses – such as light and dark for sight.

Hypnotic Language

You can unlock creativity and gently influence with the use of language borrowed from the world of hypnotherapy. Hypnotic language enables the coach and client together to create the foundation for personal change and development.

Time

NLP can assist in image-making exercises that help to look at events and experiences from different points in time and perspectives, which is very valuable in planning for the future.

Stories

Stories have a unique structure which conveys complex information very effectively through simulating cause and effect within a given context.

Profiles

In NLP, ‘Meta Programs’ are used as a way of predicting a person’s general preferences for relationships to people and events and can be used to increase rapport, influence and persuade.

Modelling

The heart of NLP is modelling; the process of systematically coding and transferring knowledge from one person to another – Emulating characteristics that successful people have shown in order to get results in defined areas - combining both logical and intuitive approaches.

A Useful Guide to NLP for Coaches