Hiring a Business Coach with expertise in Neurolinguistic Programming for the first time? Wondering what skills he should have? Apprehensive about taking the final call? Well, all your concerns are merit-worthy for sure. Too many choices after all often lean to confusion and so does information overload (a common side effect of WWW). Here’s some help.

What Skills Should A Business Coach Have?

The burning question here is, what skills should your Business Coach have? How’ll you know that he/she is worth your time and money? Here are some key pointers:

An Impressive Personality

Any NLP Business Coach should be someone with an impressive personality and good oratory skills. After all, anyone practicing NLP should naturally have acquired these traits over time.

NLP is primarily known to facilitate personal development by altering mindset and reforming linguistic tendencies to enhance one’s communicative ability. If an NLP Coach is timid and unimpressive it means the person does not practice what he/she preaches.

The best advertising for a coach is his/her personality. If you feel them lacking in any way in terms how they carry themselves, they are not worth taking coaching from,

Approachable and Affable

If your Business Coach seems to be legit from the way he conducts himself and so forth, look for the second set of skills that should be common to anyone with expertise in Leadership Coaching Neurolinguistic Programming. An NLP Business Coach should be interactive and approachable with the ability to immediately put people at ease. That’s another your coach should have learnt as a practitioner of NLP.

Moreover, he/she should able to put forward ideas and knowledge in the most lucid terms possible – if you find someone spewing out linguistic jargon at a seemingly clueless and confused audience, know that he/she is either unqualified or is not fit to coach you in the key concepts of NLP.

Certification Is A Must

You may be feeling that it will difficult to determine whether your NLP Business Coach is a genuine expert in the field or just a charismatic person with no formal training whatsoever. Agreed, it is a little bit hard to fathom. But a good beginning should be asking to see a proof of the prospective Coach’s NLP certification.

A certification from a reputed institute is a strong indicator of a business coach’s credibility.

Be careful in hiring your NLP Business Coach; be sure to be paying to someone who is NLP trained and can actually make a difference in the way you and your workforce perform.

Author's Bio: 

Sharlene Licciardello is a trainer at NLPPowerTraining.com -- A website dedicated to Neurolinguistic Programming based business coach and leadership coaching programs.