Business coaches and NLP practitioners will be acutely aware of the powerful advantages that a concept known as ‘modelling’ can bring to both individuals and businesses, and it is a method widely adopted by many successful entrepreneurs.
It is based on the premises of ‘if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it’ and ‘there is no point in trying to reinvent the wheel’. However, before exploring the concept of modelling, you may be interested to know a little bit about the origins of NLP, which underpins the concept.
Neuro Linguistic Programming, or NLP as it is widely known, is a way of studying and understanding how we attain and do the things that we do. Through the tried and tested models, tools and techniques of NLP we can find a unique way of defining and achieving our goals.
NLP came about during the 1970, and is based on the work of John Grindler, Richard Bandler. What they were curious about was how great people used mind, body and language to achieve great results. It is based on the fundementa that the mind, body and language we use, interact to guide and direct our behaviour. NLP can be broken down into it’s component parts:
Neuro – the processing of the information that we experience through: sight, touch, sound, smell and taste.
Linguistic – the use of language to appreciate world.
Programming – the way in which we mentally encode information based on experience; and how this affects our behaviours.
NLP suggests that if we can understand how great people achieve the results they do, then we should all be able to copy them and considers that if one person can achieve something, then potentially anyone can achieve the same thing.
NLP is a wonderfully powerful and applied approach to allow people a way to find solutions and move forward in a positive and progressive way. There are many areas that it covers and a whole range of simple and useful tools.
Unfortunately, most of NLP is beyond the scope of this article and something you may wish to researchexplore more yourself.
However, what we will be looking at is one of the most useful and key aspects of NLP, ‘modelling’ and how we can model our behaviours and beliefs of those who have achieved excellence so we can achieve excellence ourselves.
Modelling is concerned with the applied approach to developing the competencies to replicate a desirable skill or behaviour possessed by another in order to put it to practical use ourselves.
This is a very good business model to have, because if you can find a business or business person who is achieving and doing so well in areas that you also wish to perform well in, then the ideal of modelling is to learn of to replicate this.
How it works is that it maximises on our ability to learn as we did as a child, and during when there was no rationalization or conscious intervention to inhibit our learning. Very often as adults we do not learn as well as we could or do not explore the things that would help us to learn through a trial and error basis because we stop to think and rationalize about it. Consequently, we limit our own ability to learn from others, to grow and to achieve the same things that other accomplish.
Modelling is all about learning how to learn as a child, where innocence made anything seem possible and we placed few, if any limitations on ourselves. It involves a process where we permit our unconscious resources to become tuned in to others we are modelling and willing to model everything about their behaviour and thinking that enables them to do what they do so well.
With practice and once mastered, modelling can be a very beneficial tool to achieving excellence and recognizing the concept that if one person can do something, then potentially anyone can.
This article is written by J Keightley who is a professional life coaching specialist and ecommerce business owner of Giggleberries Mens Underwear, it discusses the benefits that NLP Modelling can bring to your business.
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