NLP: My Journey

As you read through the words I will share with you the amazing learning journey that started three years ago when I did my NLP practitioner . Being from a corporate training background, I had heard about various opinions related to NLP and its applications. I did my research and finally I arrived at the conclusion that I must at least do the basic NLP Practitioner. So I started searching for various trainers and the boards of NLP. While searching for the information, I connected with the friend who shared the details of her NLP training with me. I found it interesting and worth spending time, energy and efforts so I connected with the trainer and started my training.

During the program as I learned the technique I was amazed at its applicability. The sky is the limit for its application. I wanted to check whether the techniques will actually deliver what I am looking for. To test its applicability, I started applying it and checked for the results. I applied it at work, as a parent, in relationships, health, removing unhealthy thinking patterns, and self-development and acquire new skills, to prime my mind to happily and effortlessly work on what I really dream and desire to become.

Life is a process in itself and it has its challenges and resources. NLP assisted me to maximize the scattered resources I had. The coherence of resources within me and my environment, automatically made the challenges look and feel very small. My addiction of learning and growing made me go deeper into NLP and I continued to squeeze time, money and efforts to complete the further levels in NLP. It added more to me. Finally I started to work on my dream project of combining the Science and art of NLP with HR.

As an HR professional in theory we learn we need to take care of people, motivate, nurture, coach, mentor, train them…However practically as per the business requirement we need to take certain tough decisions. In tough situations we need strong emotional control at the same time need to understand different perspectives objectively. If an HR professional can do it, they will be very successful in the domain…

As you must know, HR is under immense pressure to drive the talent solutions and convert it into actionable data. As per one of the Deloitte’s survey, HR teams are in transition however there is room for further improvements. As per the research, only 17 percent of HR teams said that they have a very good understanding of their company’s products, 14 percent believe that they are highly skilled at addressing global talent issues, only 8 percent believe that they have the understanding of cyber security issues. HR is making a subtle shift from being a compliance, service provider to the champion of creating a total employee experience. Digital transformation demands HR to be creative and flexible with their approaches and it’s on an all-time high. Companies like Telstra, Commonwealth Bank of Australia are focusing on innovative learning solutions. They have adapted the user-centric design approach. Philips and Nestle are creating innovative learning environments. One energy company started a center of excellence to invest in creating a learned workforce. Companies like EDF energy are investing in sustainable learning frameworks to educate and empower their employees. All these examples from the research reflect that HR is changing…and so the professionals need to be highly flexible, outcome-oriented, with strong emotional control and high on influence to lead the team in changing times.

Here NLP provides plethora of tools and techniques that can be utilized to groom and develop the HR professionals to excel at what they do. With this end in the mind, I created the transformation program where I can transfer the learning to passionate HR professionals and empower them to excel at what they do. I made mistakes, like any other human being, I owned those, rectified it and moved ahead. I feel amazingly satisfied and happy that with all the twists and turns that life provides, I still managed to stick to what I deeply wanted to do and created it. I write in gratitude to those who have been there, inspired me, stood with me strongly and I intend to do the same to others who are willing to open their minds and learn to excel…