ABSTRACT

We know a lot about change leadership. We understand how to design change programmes, and we know how to prescribe best practice change methods. Yet, despite all this knowledge, it is reported that up to 70% of change leadership projects fail to realize many of their objectives. The fault lines are cited as occurring at the micro level of social interaction.

What we don’t adequately explain and demonstrate within the change leadership literature is how change leaders may consciously generate in themselves and in others resourceful mindsets, emotions, attitudes, and behaviours to enable positive change leadership dynamics. Neuro-Linguistic Programming for Change Leaders: The Butterfly Effect fills this gap by connecting the practices of personal development with those of corporate change leadership.

This book has the vision of advancing NLP as a serious technology in the change leader’s tool box. The book introduces to operations managers, HR practitioners, OD specialists, and students of management new ideas and practices, which can transform their effectiveness as change leaders.

It focuses on the benefits of applied NLP to change leaders as a generative change toolkit. Secondly, the book provides a model that shows change leaders how to build a climate of psychological safety to establish rapport with stakeholders. Thirdly, the book provides a strategy for enabling broader cultural change and stakeholder engagement throughout the organization.

part 1|71 pages

The theory and operational context of NLP

chapter 1|11 pages

Conscious leadership

chapter 2|10 pages

NLP as a field of applied sociology

chapter 3|8 pages

New management practices

Paradigm change

chapter 4|9 pages

‘The map is not the territory’

Reframing change leadership

chapter 5|11 pages

It starts with oneself

The butterfly effect

chapter 6|13 pages

NLP and the Law of Requisite Variety

chapter 7|8 pages

The NLP paradigm

part 2|90 pages

Applied NLP

chapter 8|13 pages

Building the case for change

chapter 9|8 pages

Building psychological safety

chapter 10|10 pages

Un-packing the mindset mix

chapter 11|11 pages

Meta-programmes

chapter 12|11 pages

Framing of experience

chapter 13|9 pages

Caretaking and guiding

chapter 14|10 pages

A model of rapport building

chapter 15|10 pages

Communication models

chapter 16|7 pages

NLP and OD

Two not-so-distant relatives. It’s time for collaboration