Underlying attitudes are at the heart of human behavior. For example, if we hold an attitude that learning is difficult, we will make choices, develop strategies and adopt behaviors that will support that attitude. We will constantly see and experience learning as difficult and notice that people we teach also find learning difficult. Thus the results we get reinforce the attitude which reinforces the subsequent behavior. The cycle goes on. Changing the attitude sets a completely different cycle in motion.

Great teachers and educators hold a series of specific and common attitudes. Mediocre and ineffective teachers/educators also hold a series of specific and common attitudes. They just happen to be drastically different.

NLP also provides the trainer or change agent with a specific model to use as an overall module design when designing an intervention or when getting an individual or a group to move towards desired outcomes. Also, when trainers are not getting the results they want in a session, they can use the methodology to examine the situation and find the next appropriate step to take.

With underlying attitudes and an overall methodology in place, NLP provides us with a wide range of specific interventions to use. In training, these techniques range from managing the internal states of the trainers to using language of influence and suggestion that match preferred learning styles to choreography which is the science of managing the training space.