NLP Persuasion Skills in Blackpool
Deconstructing Persuasion Skills Techniques
Over the last few posts we have discussed:
- Using John V. Genovese’s strategic conversation exchange as a frame work for having purposeful conversations from his Networking Note Cards
- Marcus Corah’s email about reading people and building rapport
- How I found a prospect’s values and fed them back to sell my book on a train using material from Advanced Persuasion Patterns.
I want to move on to a field report to deconstruct how I combined all three approaches to get meals and drinks paid for from complete strangers. The first time I succeeded beyond my own expectations the second time I bombed out completely but got some amazing secondary gains. In both cases there was one key issue that once you (I) understand will get you significantly better results. This post is to set the scene for that field report.
NLP in Blackpool
I was in Blackpool delivering a two day NLP / Persuasion Skills Course. Progress Recruitment are a great company that specialise in helping disabled people find and keep work. They work with employers helping their organisations become more disabled friendly and tap into this pool of possible employees.
In two days we covered a phenomenal amount of ground including:
- Perceptual Positions including a variety of applications from accelerated learning through persuasion techniques and developing rapport
- Batari’s box and how you can use this to change behaviour
- Eliciting and Utilising Values
- And of course some powerful language patterns
All of these are covered extensivly on the Advanced Persuasion Patterns Programme and you can find taster videos covering these topics on the face book page for Persuasion Skills.
Response to NLP Training
Here is an email I received from Progress Recruiment about the course.
From: Gwyneth Tuck
Sent: 09 September 2009 15:25
To: Rintu Basu (E-mail)
Subject: Feedback from NLP
Hi Rintu,
Feedback from the NLP course for you:
Interesting, interactive, well tutored, motivating, exciting, insightful, enjoyable, excellent, enlightening, relevant!
“Improved self confidence”
“very beneficial for the client group I work with”
“Good team building. Made us look at ourselves, as well as clients and employers”There were no negative points at all, so I think that says it all!
Best wishes
GwynethGwyneth Tuck
Operations Development Manager
Progress
1-2 Lockheed Court
Amy Johnson Way
Squires Gate
Blackpool
FY4 2RN
Tel: 01253 477287
Fax: 01253 477276
Minicom: 01253 477275
Website: www.progress-recruitment.net
Inclusive Employment - Achieving Business Success
Registered Charity Number 1091697
This was a course specifically geared to giving the people in Progress Recruitment some NLP Tools for influence, persuasion and professional development. With a little tweaking it can become an extremely powerful Covert Persuasion Course. I am keen to run this before the end of the year. If anyone is interested in a three day course in Glasgow at the back end of November let me know.
Dining in Blackpool
The end result was I had two evenings dining out in Blackpool on my own. The first I accidently managed to join two other diners and get them to pay for the meal. The night after I tried to repeat the process, bombed out completely but got free drinks from the restaurant management. The next post is a full field report with the patterns deconstructed and including the all important why it worked one night and not the other.