Managing with the Power of NLP: Neurolinguistic Programming; A Model for Better Management, Second Edition

Chapter Seven. The Power of Words

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• Intention, purpose and outcome

• How true is your language to your experience?

• What’s your chunk size?

• Artfully vague language

• Frame your thinking

• Reframe your thinking

• Learn to learn with metaphor

• Is what you say congruent with what you do?

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Language is our universal system for communicating meaning, understanding and experience to each other. Earlier I said that the words you use account for only 7 per cent of meaning, and yet it is with this small amount that we can pack tremendous power into our communication. In ancient eastern wisdom, words are often referred to as arrows that, once they have left the bow, will strike their target with great impact.???

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