Here’s a powerful method to simplify the number of things you have to track when eliciting other people’s strategies.

NLP strategies allow us to capture the specific sequence someone uses to create success. Armed with that knowledge, we have a shortcut we can use to create a similar result in our own lives (or can teach it to others.)

In fact, you can capture other people's strategies while watching them on YouTube, as this video shows.

Given strategies can occur very quickly, it's natural to wonder:

“How can I track all the moves a client’s strategy makes and not get overwhelmed?”

Thankfully, it’s not that hard. Here's why:

Most of the strategies you will collect involve just 3 representational systems.

These are: Visual, Auditory or Kinaesthetic.

That’s it!

If you can count to 3, you can learn how to collect other people’s strategies when you’ve had the right training.

Occasionally, you may need to capture information about how someone is using their smell and taste systems.

But being able to focus on just 3 is big because it means at each step in the conversation you usually only need to track 1 of 3 moves when capturing someone's strategy.

This GREATLY simplifies things.

As you can see from the diagram below (enable images to see) - at any point in the time, one representational system is given a higher ‘signal value’ in the brain than the others.

But that's not the only crucial piece of information to collect.

To capture the 'formula for success' present in people's strategies, it's essential to pay attention to a tiny yet vital element — the little arrow.

Most students overlook this crucial detail, which is a BIG mistake. The arrow serves as the trigger that moves the strategy from one stage to the next. So it's a key component to know how it works.

These are just two of the many invaluable insights we cover in our Mastering NLP Strategies training. To find out more you can read up on all the details here.

Remember: People are dropping strategies everywhere. You don't need to be an NLP ninja to capture them. With the right training, you can pick them up formally and informally. See how you can even do this while watching videos on YouTube here.

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