NLP Designing Strategies

Some Neuro-linguistic Programming strategies are not very resourceful and can even cause us harm. By redesigning these strategies, we can change their internal representation system components. Strategizing enables the brain to move in a productive direction. It involves organizing the representational components in a certain order in order to create a desirable outcome as per Neuro-linguistic training. The strategizing skill is more important than intelligence for achieving excellence.

How We Can Master Our Thinking

When we understand the steps involved in a strategy that lies in between the original stimulus and the corresponding behavior, we can control our way of thinking and responding to any situation. We will then have more choices and more control on our actions. By tracking down what the brain does, we can understand which modalities are used, resources required and response styles. According to Neuro-linguistic training, our responses can be congruent or incongruent, hidden or Meta, passive or aggressive, delayed or immediate.

Using the Neuro-linguistic Programming strategy model, we can design custom strategies for achieving desirable outcomes. Strategy design involves creating a desired outcome, restructuring inefficient strategies, troubleshooting, limiting general strategies, changing context of strategies and using appropriate tests. Using strategy design, a well-formed strategy can be formed.

For example when we need to redesign a strategy for a person afraid of public speaking, we add a step in the strategy where the person accesses the states of comfort, relaxation, self-humor etc. We need to include cues, context and decision points in the design to control the Neuro-linguistic processes. We can also use strategies for modeling, where if a strategy is working and produces desired outcome, we can model it and use the model for some other aspect that needs to be changed.

A well-formed strategy requires the following information:

1. Type of information required and for which representation system
2. Required tests, generalizations, distinctions and associations for processing the information
3. Specific operations and outputs necessary for achieving outcome
4. Most effective sequence for test and operation
5. A precise representation of the desired outcome
6. Synchronization with the ecology
7. Utilization of Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic aspects of the representation system

Strategy Utilization:

Neuro-linguistic Programming strategies can be used to transform our daily obstacles into valuable resources, and expanding our behavioral capacity and choices in life.

We can understand the strategies used by others and use this information to construct our communication. We can then build a strong rapport with the person, simply by understanding their sequence of thinking, deciding and perceiving. For example, if a person is in the habit of having an inner talk before making a decision, we can approach this person by matching this decision-making strategy. We can organize our communication in such a way that we give opportunity for inner retrospection, making the conversation congruent to the person’s model. This will create a good rapport, and the person is likely to make a decision in our favor.

Conclusion

Strategy Installation:

Neuro-linguistic Programming strategies can be installed in a number of ways, primarily by using anchoring. We can anchor a strategy using vicarious experiences, creating altered states and experiences, or rehearsing strategy pieces such as gestures, dialogues or facial expressions. After installation, the Neuro-linguistic Programming strategy can operate in a natural and automatic manner, as our integral unit with one step flowing into the other. The steps involved for strategy installation are:

1. Using anchoring for strategy installation by anchoring a state or a representation using contextual stimuli, and walking the person through the different steps of the strategy sequence.
2. Using instructions in the form of words to create new representational steps of the strategy
3. Rehearsing the new procedure of doing things using hands on practice until the person is confident and comfortable with the new strategy and its triggers.
4. Using game playing for rehearsal by putting more emphasis on the form rather than the content of past experiences
5. Rehearsing synesthesia patterns by installing sequences of the rep systems which is independent of content
6. Interrupting undesirable strategies by overloading with excess information or blocking accessing cues.

We can apply Neuro-linguistic Programming strategies in all walks of life, by packaging our conversations to mirror the individual’s thought processes and strategies. When we fit our communication to suit the Neuro-linguistic model of others, we can better manage, lead, communicate, relate and understand others, increasing our own effectiveness and excellence.

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