Have you ever heard that saying?  If so, how do you really put it into practice?

Have you ever wondered why others understand what you are saying straightaway and why you need to explain
the same thing to colleagues and maybe customers  two and three times over? 

Well if you want to know how to get your message across in a way that is readily understood, then learning how to
recognise and choose appropriate thinking patterns is the key to your success.

Learning about thinking patterns is part of the skill package you require to work with people from different cultures
with whom you come into contact. 

Communicating effectively is the art of working with people who may  have visible or non visible learning difficulties,
for example, dyslexia or hearing difficulties.

Most of the teams you work with in your career are likely to be multicultural.   Their performance will be affected by the way you communicate with them.

Even if team members originate from the same country (including the UK), each person still has their own style, their personal culture.
NLP skills and techniques gives you the ability not only to immediate relate to other peoples thinking patterns but also understand your own. 

Do you know what your thinking pattern is?  Think about your closest colleague, a customer  or  a family member.  Do you know what their thinking pattern is?

When you being to understand NLP you being to communicate on a completely different level .
You become more self-aware of  how you communicate and how to build rapport with people immediately. 

Here’s a quick exercise for you

Let’s explore some differences in thinking patterns.

Think of ‘coffee’.  What comes to mind?

A picture?  May be you imagined coffee cups, coffee beans or a coffee maker?

Or maybe you heard the hiss of the coffee machine.  Or the noise of the coffee being poured into the cup?

Or did you experience a feeling?  The warmth of the coffee cup in your hands or the smell or taste of coffee?

Understanding how  representational system  work  guaranteed to make you a  better communicator, negotiator and influencer at work.

Understanding how  representational system  work  guaranteed to make you a  better communicator, negotiator and influencer at work.

Maybe it was a combination of all three?

These different ways of thinking are called ‘accessing representational systems’.

Understanding how  representational system  work  guaranteed to make you a  better communicator, negotiator and influencer at work.

Being an effective communicator,negotiator and influencer is the prerequisite to being a Diversity Leader.