NLP Techniques List: 85+ NLP Methods, Models and Exercises.

The NLP Techniques List is your practical guide to over 100 methods for personal and professional growth. Each technique shows how small shifts in thinking, language, and behaviour can create lasting change. We also link to our premium 1:1 NLP Training.

Explore the models that underpin influence, decision-making, and communication. Use these resources freely to develop insight, skill, and confident action in everyday life.

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NLP Techniques: List of Topics, with links to our latest models and approaches

1. What is NLP

This section establishes the foundational concepts of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). We take complex ideas—like the models behind decision-making and influence—and translate them into clear, actionable steps. This knowledge allows you to immediately upgrade your communication and thinking, as well as your short- and long-term results.

2. Questions about NLP

Explore the most common questions about NLP and how it works in real life.

Curious about NLP? You’re not alone. Many people begin with questions — about its relevance, legitimacy, methods, and impact. This cluster brings together key questions and clear answers, helping you explore how NLP works, when it matters, and how you might apply it in business, leadership, or personal development.

Each article offers a practical, balanced view — designed to help you understand not just what NLP is, but how it can help you communicate, lead, and succeed more effectively.

3 NLP Plan

This NLP Planning cluster offers you a complete system — starting with purpose, moving through strategy and discipline, and arriving at consistent growth.

You’ll explore how to define your direction, adapt to change, manage your time and energy, and reflect effectively. Each article adds a piece to your success system, helping you build momentum, stay aligned with your values, and achieve lasting results.

4. NLP coaching

This cluster explores how NLP can be applied in coaching to enhance leadership effectiveness.

It covers how all leaders develop clarity, rapport, influence, decision-quality and behavioural change that sustains under real-world pressure. From our core NLP coaching model, to leadership dialogue patterns, breakthrough conversations and follow-up processes — this cluster offers practical frameworks for CEOs, C-Suite executives and anyone in a leadership role (all of us?).

NLP Coaching Introduction

5. Neuro-Linguistic Programming Techniques

The NLP Techniques cluster explores the core methods and practical tools that make NLP effective in personal and professional development. Each page introduces a key NLP technique — from timelines and values to rapport and reframing — with clear explanations and guided exercises.

Together, these approaches help you enhance awareness, communication, and lasting behavioural change in yourself and others. Explore the full list below to find the techniques most relevant to what you want to achieve.

6. Free: NLP Adventure Course Programme

If you would like to explore the videos and add your observations and comments, please see the programme on YouTube: NLP Adventure Courses

Or to see the videos with more detailed transcripts, please view below. NLP Training: NLP Adventure Course.

Course 1: NLP Adventure – Purpose & Benefits — 4 videos | ✅ Live

Why this course exists, what it delivers, and how it’s different from typical NLP training. You’ll understand the promise before committing your time: Course 1: NLP Adventure – Purpose and Benefits

Course 2: Get the Best From the Course — 4 videos | ✅ Live

How to engage with the material so it sticks. Simple approaches to moving from watching to doing — because capability comes only from practice. Course 2: NLP Adventure – Get the Best

Course 3: What Is NLP? Pros & Cons — 7 videos | ✅ Live

An honest look at what NLP is, where it shines, and where it deserves scrutiny. No hype, no blind loyalty — just a clear-eyed assessment. Course 3: NLP Adventure – NLP Pros and Cons.

Course 4: NLP Fundamentals — 16 videos | ✅ Live

The core mechanics cover the building blocks you’ll use across every module that follows. This is where real capability begins. Course 4: NLP Fundamentals

Course 5: Journey — The Departure — 6 videos | ✅ Live

The hero’s journey starts here. What it means to leave the familiar behind and why discomfort is the price of growth. Course 5: The Hero’s Departure

Course 6: What Evolution Teaches Us — 7 videos | ✅ Live

How evolutionary psychology shapes your decisions, blind spots, and instincts — and what to do with that knowledge. Course 6: What Evolution Teaches.

Course 7: The Blind Spots Keeping You Stuck — 6 videos | 🔨 In Development

Cognitive biases that hijack leadership and decision-making. Name them, see them, stop being run by them. Course 7: The Blind Spots Keeping You Stuck

Course 8: Journey — The Initiation — 6 videos | 🔨 In Development

The middle of the journey — where transformation happens, and old patterns meet new capability.

Course 9: Self-Improvement Pros & Cons — 6 videos | 🔨 In Development

A critical look at the self-improvement industry. What actually works, what’s noise, and how to tell the difference.

Course 10: Journey — The Return — 5 videos | 🔨 In Development

Bringing what you’ve learned back into your real world. Integration, not just inspiration.

Course 11: Plan Your Own Journey — 5 videos | 🔨 In Development

Your turn. Map your own path forward using everything the course has built.

7. What makes our 1:1 Training Special

The What Makes Our Training Special cluster highlights the unique elements that define our approach to NLP and leadership development. From bespoke, premium 1:1 NLP training and certification that delivers real-world results, to our proposed client community and Michael Beale’s depth of experience, each page shows why our programmes stand apart.

Together, they demonstrate a learning journey built on personalisation, measurable progress, and lasting impact. Explore the pages below to see how each element contributes to your success.

8. Free Discovery Phase – For Prospective Training and Coaching Clients

The Free Discovery Phase offers three structured sessions that help you clarify your goals, direction and priorities before committing to any programme. Through strategic visioning, leadership insight, behavioural intelligence and stakeholder feedback, it gives you a deeper understanding of what matters most. This upfront clarity significantly improves the results you get from any NLP training or coaching programme.

The phase is complimentary, commitment-free and tailored for senior leaders, founders and ambitious professionals.

9. NLP 1:1 Training – Our Training Programmes

The Training Programmes cluster introduces our complete range of NLP and leadership development courses. From NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner to Coach and Business Practitioner, each pathway builds skill, confidence, and depth.

Together, they create a clear route from foundational learning to advanced mastery and real-world application. Explore the programmes below to find the training that best fits your goals.

10. NLP Practitioner Pathway

If you’re exploring NLP more deeply, the following pathway pages show how these techniques develop into practical skills within the NLP Practitioner framework.

11. NLP Premier Certification

Our NLP Premier Certification is our high-level credential — a rigorous, integrity-centred qualification that shows you’re not just present for training, but truly competent, ethical and ready to coach or lead with confidence.

This section helps you honestly assess whether you’re ready to embark on this advanced certification journey—and what it will demand of you.

12. CEO, MD, and C-Suite Coaching

We’ve developed a range of unique 9 and 12-month 1:1 CEO and C-Suite coaching programmes based on NLP and MGSCC leadership and team coaching.

13. NLP and Leadership

This article series explores NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and Leadership as a discipline of communication, influence, learning, and judgment — especially in complex, high-stakes contexts.

(Note: You’ll need to be signed in to your LinkedIn account to see these.)

The focus is not on individual techniques but on how NLP supports clear thinking, effective communication, modelling what works, and responsible action in a changing world. The series is published on LinkedIn as a coherent cluster of articles, intended to be read together rather than in isolation.

14. CEO, MD, and C-Suite Resources

Resources for Senior-Level Leaders

15 NLP Blogs

16 Recommended Links

Richard Bandler NLP Eternal – Access to Richard’s back catalogue for streaming
Westminster Insurance

17 Books

Appendix: Glossary of NLP Terms

Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) Glossary of Terms

NLP Timeline Training, Michael Beale with John LaValle, President of the Society of NLP

NLP Discussion, Michael Beale with John LaValle, President of The Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming

Michael Beale is a 1:1 NLP trainer and CEO coach with over 30 years of previous commercial business experience.

Director: Business NLP Ltd
Coaching: Certified Marshall Goldsmith Leadership & Team Coach
NLP Credentials: 20+ years Certified Trainer and Coach Trainer (Richard Bandler); Certified New Code Practitioner & Coach (John Grinder)
Commercial Procurement: 15 years negotiating and buying £M budgets across retail and corporate sectors
Corporate Strategy: Former Strategy Development Manager, £1B division at BT plc