Starbucks’ “The Way I See It” campaign has been one of the best examples of “influence” I’ve seen. It’s another way for Starbucks to add to the experience and give someone one more thing to look forward to when they get their cup of coffee.
What are you doing to subtly influence others?

Each and every one of us has a systematic way to encode our sense of time in our respective minds. When you utilize the subtle yet powerful aspects of language, you can shift your customer’s perceptions and guide them in your persuasion.
This is perhaps one of the most fun concepts I learned while studying Neuro-Linguistic [...]

NLP is full of fancy jargon, and you need a glossary of terms when attending a NLP Practitioner Training just to make sense of it all. “Presuppositions” are no exception, even though most think they know what it means.
Presuppositions are simply the linguistic equivalent of what most people call assumptions. But with a little more [...]

Metaphors. That’s the secret.
Surprised? You shouldn’t be. Using metaphors appeals the your prospects or customers right brain. It helps them visualize, instantly relate, and connect the dots to what you are saying or recommending. And it’s memorable.
The process behind a recommendation that’s rephrased framed with a metaphor is actually simple.
First, ask yourself: What am I [...]

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) arms us with the language tools to develop our skills at making our products and services (sound, feel or look) interesting. Unfortunately, it’s easy to get caught up in what do I say versus what do I ask so I can learn what they want most out of what I’m selling.
What [...]

I often get asked, “How do I master my NLP skills?”
Answer: “One bite at a time.”
Sharpening your sensory experience, paying attention to all the non-verbals you may not have been consciously aware of before, mastering your state, establishing rapport on multiple levels, using the meta-model, listening to sensory predicates signaling representational systems, identifying metaprograms, eliciting [...]

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) gives us amazing linguistic ingredients for crafting our language with purpose in front of each customer we approach.
What type of language shifts submodalities and uses presuppositions of TIME?
from now on, then, when, while, endless, everlasting, prolong, past, yet, stop, still, in the meantime, in the future, long waiting, look back, before, after, [...]

NLP places a lot of emphasis on values. Although the process of eliciting values is relatively simple, it does require some verbal dexterity to do it well, with rapport and grace.
When you are trying to uncover and reach people at deeper levels, rapport is required and maintaining rapport during “tough questions” is sometimes not the [...]