Four Steps to Finding the Ideal NLP Practitioner Course for You
A NLP Practitioner Course is a very powerful experience and can give you tools to expand every area of your life in some very serious ways. Whilst there are huge benefits NLP Training is a big investment of time, money and energy. There are a lot of NLP Training Courses in the market at varying prices, durations and skill levels of the trainers. Bearing this in mind it is worth spending the time to find the right course for you. Here are four things you should consider before choosing the ideal course for you.
1) Read around the subject and find out what you want to get from it.
Having a clear purpose and a knowledge of how the content of a course could serve that purpose will give you a lot of direction for finding the right course for you.
Do you want to enhance your professional skills, if so in what way and for what purpose? Are you interested in therapy either as a client or becoming a therapist? Are you interested in flirting and dating applications? Perhaps you are looking to restructure your business to make more profit and want to use NLP techniques to give your business that edge. You might be a sales professional, student, trainer, poker player or coach wanting to expand your skills.
2) Decide on your course criteria.
Courses range from having hundreds of delegates to just a dozen and sometimes even less. Large courses will give you lots of people to meet and share experiences with. Smaller courses will give you individual attention and content deliberately structured to suit you.
Type of courses range from weekends spread over several months and shorter intensive courses that range from five to ten days. Spread out course will give you the opportunity to take small bite sized slices at the material moving at a leisurely pace. The shorter courses are intensive and fully immerse you in the subject. A stronger depth of skill is obtained on intensive courses because of the momentum and intensity that can be reached. For example consider the difference between watching a film in one sitting against breaking it up into twenty minute segments and only watching one every day. The content is the same but the quality of experience is totally different.
Incidentally, price, location and time should not really be considered as criteria. If this is the most important learning experience that you will have in your life so far, would you want to make sure it was the right one? And would it be worthwhile waiting until you have the money, the time to travel for exactly the right experience?
3) Shortlist two or three courses and then research the NLP trainers.
Spend some time reading about the trainers and the content they cover against your needs and values. You will learn more from trainers that match your learning style, values and that you can build rapport with. Read some of the articles the trainers have written and ask yourself the question “would I be happy letting this person train me on an unconscious level?”, because that is a fundamental part of NLP Training.
Phone the trainers, have a discussion with them and ask them to demonstrate to you that they can train you in your specific applications for NLP. Any good NLP Trainer would be happy to give you something to take and use for your specific situation. This can give you a gauge on how well they will be able to train you on the course.
4) Match the content to your applications
It would be great having the right trainer but it still serves no purpose unless they were training you in something you wanted to be trained in. Take some of the ideas for how you want to use the material and see if you can match the course content to it.
When you talk to the trainer ask them to show you how the course content links with the applications you have in mind. Discuss your applications and see get their ideas of what results you can expect.
Ask for references and referral delegates so you can speak to. There is not a lot of point asking if they enjoyed the course and got something from it. This would be expected. The type of questions you might want to ask is how they are using the material, what results they are getting from it and how did the course match their expectations. You might also want to discuss your applications and how they see it linking with the course content.
An NLP Practitioner Course could be the single most powerful learning experience you have in your life. You will almost certainly be devoting a considerable amount of time, effort and money going on the course. For these reasons I think it is vital that you take the time to make sure you get on the best course for you.