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Introduction to NLP: Neuro Linguistic Programming

Use the power of language and perception to transform your communication and influence. Enhance your leadership, management, and workplace relationships.

Created byMike Claytonworkspace_premiumBest Instructor
BeginnerUpdated Sep 9, 2025

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleExplore core principles of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).
  • check_circleUnderstand how our brains filter and interpret reality.
  • check_circleLearn to build rapport through verbal and non-verbal cues.
  • check_circleApply NLP techniques for effective goal setting.
  • check_circleUncover how language patterns influence communication.

About This Course

If you’ve heard of NLP but never had a simple, no-nonsense way in, this course is your launchpad.

"Introduction to NLP: Neuro-Linguistic Programming" turns big ideas into usable tools you can apply the same day: at work, in conversations, and in your own self-management.

Across short, focused lessons, you’ll unpack how language, perception, and patterns shape our behaviour.

You’ll explore the core presuppositions of NLP, the logical levels of change, and the filters that colour how we interpret the world. Then you’ll learn hands-on skills: building genuine rapport, asking precision questions with the Meta Model, and setting well-formed outcomes that actually get done.

You’ll also meet the Milton Model, reframing, perceptual positions, and timeline thinking. All of these are approaches that help you see problems differently and unlock new options.

This is a practical, ethical introduction designed for curious professionals, coaches, leaders, and learners who want better conversations, clearer goals, and smarter strategies for change. No hype, no mystical claims—just structured frameworks, memorable examples, and simple exercises.

You’ll learn to:

  • Build rapport: read cues, match, and lead naturally
  • Ask better questions: use the Meta Model to clarify and challenge
  • Set outcomes: define goals that pass the well-formed test
  • Reframe problems: shift perspective to reveal new choices
  • Use perceptual positions: examine situations from multiple angles
  • Work with timelines: organise past learning and future plans
  • Model excellence: capture what works and replicate it

By the end, you’ll recognise unhelpful patterns faster, communicate with more precision, and design changes that stick. If you want a practical toolkit for thinking, influencing, and getting results, this course gives you the essentials—clearly explained and ready to use.

Course Content

4 activities • 16 videos • duration: 2h 1m

  • videocamWhat is NLP? {Neuro Linguistic Programming)?
    Duration 10:38
  • videocamNLP Presuppositions: Explained!
    Duration 9:28
  • videocamNLP's Logical Levels of Change
    Duration 7:05
  • videocamThe NLP Approach to Rapport Building
    Duration 9:57
  • videocamNLP Filters: How We Interpret the World Around Us
    Duration 8:51

Your Instructor

Mike Clayton

Business Trainer, Author and Speaker

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Dr Mike Clayton is a business trainer, author and speaker. Since 2002, he has been helping professionals, managers and leaders to excel in their roles with management, leadership, and personal effectiveness training. Mike has written over a dozen books for major publishers like Wiley, Macmillan and Pearson, including: Powerhouse, How to Manage a Great Project, How to Speak so People Listen, Brilliant Time Management, and The Influence Agenda. Mike's professional background is 12 years as a project management professional with the London office of international management consultancy Deloitte. Prior to that, Mike had an academic career in Physics, working at the world renowned Schuster Laboratory of the University of Manchester.

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What Students Are Saying

4.9 out of 5
Student's Choice
23 reviews
  • SW
    Samuel W.
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    Wow, lots of stuff well packed in just two hours training. It sets out clear boundary within which this course will cover and address without unrealistically trying to take on the whole NLP, especially the more controversial therapeutic area.

  • BD
    Beverley D.
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    interesting and complex; worth another go through! thank you for presenting this thought provoking subject matter.

  • DF
    Derek F.
    starstarstarstarstar

    Very interesting, very well presented

  • IB
    Isana B.
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    Interesting

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