NLP Coaching An Evidence-Based Approach for Coaches, Leaders and Individuals

is written by Susie Linder-Peiz. The publisher of this title is Viva Books Private Limited.

NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) is belived by many to be a powerful set of tools for facilitating change and enhancing performance. Yet, despite the success stories and proliferation of courses, there is still much skepticism about its validity and effectiveness.

In NLP Coaching Susie Linder-Pelz brings, for the first time, an evidence-based perspective to this coaching methodology. She explains how and where NLP coaching is used, examines its links to established principles and practices, and questions aspects of NLP where the empirical evidence is missing. Providing numerous case studies and real-life examples, she shows how NLP assists personal, professional, team, leadership and organizational development. The book includes contributions from leaders in the field: Andrew Bryant, Michelle Duval, Joseph O’Connor, Paul Tosey and Lisa Wakee.

Susie Linder-Pelz has experience in academia, business and personal development. With a World Health Organisation scholarship she earned a PhD from Columbia University in New York and worked as a behavioural science researcher. Later she developed a successful NLP-based career coaching practice. She has authored four books and numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals; addressed conferences in the United States, Singapore and Australia; delivered career and life management programmes to government and private organizations; addressed business and professional groups; and spoken on radio and TV.

Target Audience : NLP coaching professionals, training managers, HR professionsla students and academics of management.

Introduction
What is NLP?
Questions this Book Addresses
Who is this Book for?
My Researcher-Practitioner Perspective
Mind the Gap
Outline of Chapters

Part I : NLP and COACHING :
1. What is NLP Coaching?
2. a Bit of Background
3. The Goal of NLP Coaching
4. Modelling is the Key
5. Catching a Coach at Work
6. The Skills an NLP Coach Uses
7. The ‘Magic’ of NLP
8. Invisible Glue
9. Five Faces of Organizational Coaching
10. Coaching Issues
11. Meeting Industry Standards
12. NLP Coaching Vs. NLP Practice
13. Packaging NLP Coaching
14. Meeting Professional Coaching Standards
15. Shifting Paradigms
16. Science and Post-Modernist Inquiry
17. Humanistic and Positive Psychology
18. Convergence of Neuroscience and Psychology

Part II : AN EVIDENCE-BASED APPROACH to NLP COACHING :
1. Best Practice is Evidence-Based
2. What Does Evidence-Based Mean?
3. Theories, Principles and Presuppositions
4. Nine Systemic Principles
5. Systemic Principles with Psychological Overlay
6. Roots in Psychology and Support from Neuroscience
7. Unsubstantiated Aspects of NLP
8. Links to Psychology
9. Links to Other Coaching Psychology Approaches
10. Distinctive and Shared Practices
11. More on Mindfulness
12. Is NLP Really ‘Atheoretical’?
13. Empirical Evidence
14. The Historical Role of Research in NLP
15. The Verdict So Far
16. Yin and Yang in Coaching Research
17. The Case for Mixed Methods
18. Conclusion to Part 2

Part III : TOWARDS BEST PRACTICE :
1. Building on NLP Coaching
2. Symbolic Modeling and Clean Language
3. Theoretical Origins
4. Principles
5. Methodology
6. Practice
7. Meta-Coaching
8. Meta-Level Principles
9. The Meta-States Model
10. The Axes of Change Model
11. The Meta-Coaching Methodology
12. Case Study in Career Development
13. What Do These Approaches Add?
14. Working as a Practitioner-Researcher
15. Findings from a Small Practice
16. Calling for Good Research Questions
17. How NLP Coaching Works
18. Impact Studies : Does It Work?
19. Comparisons with Other Approaches
20. Visioning the ‘Gold Standard
21. Rigour and Vigour
22. Benchmarking and Evaluating Competencies
23. Competency-Based NLP Coach Training
24. From Modelling to Benchmarking
25. Benchmarking NLP Skills in Organizations
26. Research-Mindedness

Conclusion