This is Part 1 of your Social Intelligence Workshop.

This is Part 1 of your Social Intelligence Workshop.

This is Part 1 of your Social Intelligence Workshop.

Welcome everyone to Corporate Learning Excerpts. My name is Jardine.

Today’s topic is Part 3 of Understanding Metaprograms, a topic of Neuro Linguistic Programming, we will talk about some sets of metaprograms today.

So let’s begin.

There are a lot of meta-programs that have been identified. The exact figure changes all the time as some meta-programs are merged with other similar meta-programs and new meta-programs are added to the list. I’ll be going over some today. When I am going over the list, think of yourself and identify which metaprogram you most associate with, most of the time. You might be asking, can my metaprograms change? Yes, they can change over time and adapt as you come across new information and expand understanding of your life and circumstances.

So when you are doing this, ask yourself these questions related to your life : Given what you want in your life, is this helpful or hurtful? Do you need to make any changes? Keep these questions in mind as you work through each type of metaprogram

Lets start with our first set : Options vs Procedures, it gives an insight on how you want to do something.

Metaprogram Set #2 : Specific vs General Information

Metaprogram Set #3 : Proactive or Reactive

Metaprogram #4 : External Frame of Reference vs Internal Frame of Reference

Metaprogram #5 : Goal vs Consequences

Metaprogram #6 : Match vs Mismatch

Metaprogram #7 : Similarities vs Differences

Metaprogram #8 : Positive vs Negative

Metaprogram #9 : Solutions vs Problem

Metaprogram #10 : Intuition vs Sensing

Metaprogram #11 : Self vs Others

Metaprogram #12 Independent, Proximity, Cooperative

Now that you know atleast some of common Metaprograms which shows you more ways of seeing things, the key here is flexibility. And the idea is for you to check the usefulness of your own metaprograms to help you achieve your most valuable outcomes. Learning to change your own metaprograms is through repetition by simply practicing a different way than yours. Aside from that you’ve got the rest of the world to communicate with, and sometimes when you don’t see eye to eye, perhaps it’s simply because they are seeing what you are seeing through a different set of metaprograms.

So that’s it for your list of metaprograms.

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Part 4 coming soon,

Jardine

Welcome everyone to Corporate Learning Excerpts. My name is Jardine.

Today’s topic is Part 2 of Understanding Metaprograms, a topic of Neuro Linguistic Programming, we will talk about what metaprograms are for and why they are important.

So let’s begin.

First we’ll talk about self-awareness. Like any theory related to human behavior, these helps you become self aware. It helps you better understand yourself and your own tendencies in terms of how you make sense of the world, how you make decisions, how you interpret things, and how you interact with others. These will somehow be explained and make sense once you understand the meta-programs that are running in your brain. Meta-programs will also provide you with a great deal of insight into your habits and behaviors.

Then there’s Social Awareness. Knowing these can also help you better understand other people and their tendencies. It will help you know how to adapt your behavior and approach while communicating with other people. These changes can improve your relationships with others by helping you  develop deeper levels of rapport and simply connect with people within their own metaprograms or at times influence them to your way of thinking. This becomes possible because meta-programs give you an insight into a person’s reasons for thinking.

So metaprograms make you self aware and socially aware which allows you to potentially improve yourself because it gives you an opportunity to change. Because when you understand more about how you and the people around you filter and sort information, this gives you the chance to make a shift and transform your behavior in more efficient ways to help improve your action and communication with them.

This decision of changing only happens after you understand your own metaprograms and to see if they are working for you, and if they’re not it's time, it’s still your call to make some adjustments. After all, why shouldn’t we find ways program our minds with the kind of information that will make us better people doing better things.

So that’s it for the usage and importance of metaprograms.

Stay tuned for Part 3, 

Jardine

Welcome everyone to Corporate Learning Excerpts. My name is Jardine.

Today’s topic is all about Understanding Metaprograms, a topic of Neuro Linguistic Programming, we will talk about what they are and how to use them as a communication tool

We will cover 4 things In this episode: First, what metaprograms are, a bit of history, background and definition. Second, we will cover what they are for. Third, the different types of metaprograms and as we list them down, you’ll get to know what your metaprograms are. And fourth, how to use what you know about them and apply what you learn in real life

So let’s begin.

The concept of metaprograms started as an investigation, researchers wanted to know why some therapists were more effective than others. So they spotted several patterns and then developed the initial set of metaprograms. Like all theories and concepts, people further studied it, improved on it and developed the concept further up until the information that we have today.

Now to explain metaprograms in its simplest form, it all comes from the fact that through our senses : hearing, tasting, seeing, touching, smelling, We actively perceive uncounted millions of information every second of our lives. And all of this go to our brains, right? Our unconscious mind then routinely handles millions of information simultaneously, all the time. Now our conscious minds are designed to focus and would be so overwhelmed if we had to select from each and everytime.

So as per the research, metaprograms, are there to automatically sort what we pay attention to and what we filter out. And they help give the answer to the question, how is our brain able to focus with so many information around us. That means then by definition, metaprograms are simply mental shortcuts.

So your body experiences things through your senses, now your brain sorts out the information that you sense and this directs your thoughts, decisions, behaviors, actions and interactions with others resulting in significant differences in behavior from person-to-person.

How we interpret things result from our metaprograms, and this gives us a very interesting insight about our own internal representations of reality. They determine how your brain pays attention to things and what it pays attention to, so you use these meta-programs to sort and make sense of the world around you.

The meta-programs you use to perceive and interact with your world either work for you or they work against you. So they are neither positive nor negative. And whether or not they work for you depends on how you live your life based on your personal goals and objectives.

Our metaprograms are our mental filters, running at an unconscious level most of the time. These mental filters determine how we process information whether we will delete it, distort it or generalize it. Then from there you form your own beliefs, opinions and perspectives about your world, your life, and your circumstances; So they color our actions, thinking, choices, preferences, the way we experience situations and the way we react.

So that’s a bit of your history, background and definition of what metaprograms are.

Stay tuned for Part 2, 3 and 4,

Jardine

Welcome everyone to Corporate Learning Excerpts. My name is Jardine.

Today we will talk about How to Maximize Learning and cover some tips you can do when learning something new or different.  There are 4 concepts that I will discuss today :

First is the Beginner’s Mindset. Second, the habit of Divergent Thinking. Third, the concept of your brain’s neuroplasticity. Fourth, the psychological phenomenon called the protégé effect.

Let’s begin.

How do you practice having the Beginner’s Mindset. This is all about practicing intellectual humility.

What you can do is : Recognize the limits of your own knowledge to help improve your own way of thinking, and open your mind to new ways of thinking.

How do you practice Divergent Thinking. This is all about getting into the habit of not rejecting different information or the unfamiliar and then labelling them as wrong.

What you can do is : Consider that there are many possible answers to a question and there are always new ways of looking at things even from unfamiliar viewpoints.

How do you take advantage of your brain’s neuroplasticity, that your brain has the ability to change and grow in response to experiences that enable you to learn.

What you can do is : simply have new experiences, continue to learn and be open to new learnings as your brain is capable of that mental and behavioral flexibility, it will continue to grow and evolve in response to the new things you feed it.

How do you apply the protégé effect, this psychological phenomenon of teaching others that will help you learn better.

What you can do is : Have the intention of sharing the knowledge and skills you will learn with someone you know, prepare to teach it or even pretend to teach it because this will allow your brain develop mechanisms to help you learn that information more efficiently.

Keep these things in mind as you listen through the rest of the Corporate Learning excerpts.

P.S. If you like the material on today's podcast, feel free to write to me via my website and I can send you the presentation format.

More to episodes to come,

Jardine