What can you “DO” with an NLP Certification?

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Career ideas using NLP

A key element of NLP is about improving our mindsets and communications skills – and ALL employers want people who are skilled in communicating and self-management.   Business results and our working together is vastly improved where people can communicate and engage effectively.  So we feel confident in saying there are no careers or skills, or vocations where NLP won’t be of help. 

So – what you can DO with an NLP Practitioner Certificate?

It’s a question we’re asked occasionally, and possibly not often enough – but what exactly can someone do with the NLP Practitioner Certificate?

  1. Change career completely?
  2. Add NLP on to their existing career/job?
  3. Become an NLP Practitioner – as a stand-alone discipline?
  4. Use NLP alongside other tools such as hypnotherapy or coaching
  5. Use NLP as a tool for management and leadership in your existing career?
  6. Add it to your CV, as a means to gain promotion or additional responsibility/reward?
  7. Or apply NLP across your life and work, to enhance the whole life experience for you – and for everyone you come in contact with?

First and foremost, we’re going to say that option 7 is going to be the most likely initial outcome regardless of your initial intent.  Once you learn and understand NLP as a practice, it’s something that you just can’t un-learn.

As a trail of techniques and tools to understand and get the most out of human behaviour, it’s simply a done deal!

So, now let’s look at the options (which thread through each other, overlaying as you’ll see)

Change career completely?

This is often what happens when people take an NLP qualification – they realise their actual potential and what they want to offer to the world – and the rewards they could achieve, and many people will make the step.  It goes without saying that some of them will already be in the space of considering a new career at the time of booking the course.   And that the course itself is an experiential series of coaching opportunities, so by the end of it, you may well feel both invigorated, bold and confident enough to take the next step and move career.   Or you may wish to push forward for a promotion in your existing vocation.

Add NLP to an existing Career:

Whether you change career, or add NLP in, pretty much all careers are likely to use NLP in some way (and employers are also  likely to LOVE that you are an NLP Practitioner).  Here are just a few ideas:

  • HR – Human Resources, or Personnel.  Managing people, getting the most out of the people in your team.
  • Sales and Marketing – understanding what makes people buy, or respond
  • Learning and Development – understanding the motivations for learning and changing
  • Leadership and Management – you just need to understand people (and yourself) to get the most out of them!
  • Support roles – PA, VA, Admin – engaging with those who manage you, in a way that you get the best job done.
  • Project management – at all levels, from understanding modelling and systems, to motivating your project teams.  Big pictures, chunking, etc.
  • Technology – and then there are other careers, that may not appear on the surface to be quite so other-people focused, but where the idea of self-support makes all the difference.  Coding, IT, Systems support, etc. 

Employment sectors that use NLP

We have to say that there isn’t a single employment sector that wouldn’t be ideal for NLP.  As NLP is useful to understand human behaviour (our own and others) – what organisation wouldn’t want someone who can do this?    A few sectors that always spring to mind (and that people have from come for NLP training) include:

Education – from pre-school to university

Therapy – NLP is a great bolt-on addition to practically any and every mind-body therapy

Medicine – mental and physical health practitioners – support through to senior consultants

Manufacturing – CEO, board and leadership roles through to shop floor – and every layer besides.

Finance – consulting, banking, investments, front end delivery, and strategy.

Retail, marketing, sales and promotions – it really helps to understand people you are selling to.   An interesting article ( https://neilpatel.com/blog/#p-171265 ) explains that NLP is even used in SEO tactics too!

Public Sector – this includes councils, transport and service provision

Emergency services – often dealing with people who are experiencing moments of vast stress in their lives, it’s useful to have NLP skills for self-management and also helping members of the public who are experiencing extreme challenges.

Not-for-profits – providing services across the board, and supporting their people to the max – particularly as so many will be volunteers.

Become an NLP Practitioner as a stand alone discipline, or bolt into existing therapies/tools, such as hypnotherapy.

It’s absolutely possible (but not very common) to use NLP Practitioner as your sole discipline.   These NLP Practitioners mostly go on to becoming NLP Master Practitioners, and NLP Trainers, and then focus on training others in NLP.  (Which is an AWESOME thing to do btw)

However the vast majority of NLP Practitioners call themselves Coaches – which gives them one-to-one and one-to-many coaching work. 

It’s absolutely possible (but not very common) to use NLP Practitioner as your sole discipline.   These NLP Practitioners mostly go on to becoming NLP Master Practitioners, and NLP Trainers, and then focus on training others in NLP.  (Which is an AWESOME thing to do btw)

Many of the coaching training includes some NLP tools and techniques – but not all, by any stretch.  The same applies with Hypnotherapy.  The NLP training before the Hypnotherapy courses I have done, has been truly transformational in the results I’ve got.

And, of course, when you’re helping someone with any of the mind-body therapies, it’s also useful to support them afterwards with NLP goal focused coaching. 

The bottom line is your NLP Practitioner Qualification is versatile, desirable and a great option for advancement:

NLP is all about the tools and techniques for improving human interactions and our communications.   So it’s no surprise that the L in NLP stands for Linguistics.  Our language is how we communicate with others – and with ourselves.   But it’s not just verbal language – NLP covers our body language, movements and changes of mind/hand/body that can make or break a communication experience.

When it comes to communicating with ourselves – NLP can help to manage or silence that small inner critic, the tiny voice that may tell you what you can and cannot do – and when that is silenced, suddenly so much more of life can be available to us.  We reach, with confidence, for the career or vocation we choose.

Add on the tools you get for interactions and communicating, and suddenly you can be in an even better space for a new career – or taking your existing career up several notches!  NLP can help prepare you, and help you understand where you want to go, and how.