The Elder Columns, Part 3 – The Results of the Survey (Preliminary Findings)

Taraaah! here is the answer to ‘What is NLP?’
Maybe not the final, everlasting answer, but certainly the most authoritative answer so far.

In the Elder Columns Part I and Part II we described the arguments for defining NLP through voting and the NLP Leadership Summit group as an expert group suitable for voting. We also described the meticulous construction of ‘The List’ (the questionnaire) listing elements to vote on. You will find the whole story in these two articles: The Elder Columns Part 1 (Describing our justification for the voting process) and The Elder Columns Part 2 (Discussing the many contributions from the LS community and how they influenced the list).

The panel
The panel we ended up with had a remarkable level of NLP-expertiseAll Leadership Summit members were invited to vote and 59 members did. The could vote ‘Is part of NLP’/’I don’t know’/’Is not part of NLP’.

Together they represent a remarkable amount of NLP-expertise. Between them, they have taught NLP for 1363 years and they have written 231 books on NLP. To our knowledge, never in the history of NLP has a group of this size, with this amount of NLP-expertise been asked to say what is NLP is and what is not.

The Delphi Method
We had been working according to the Delphi method.As it turns out, we have been using the Delphi Method, which has these characteristics:

1. It uses a group of participants (known as ‘panellists’) specially selected for their particular expertise on a topic.
2. It is often conducted across a series of two or more sequential questionnaires known as ‘rounds’. It employs an initial ‘idea generation’ stage, in which panellists are asked to identify the range of salient issues.
3. It collates ideas from Round 1 to construct the survey instrument distributed in subsequent rounds.
4. It has an evaluation phase (third or further rounds) where panellists are provided with the panel’s responses and asked to re-evaluate their original responses.
5. It is interested in the formation or exploration of consensus, often defined as the number of panellists agreeing with each other on questionnaire items.
6. It is particularly useful in areas of limited research, since survey instruments and ideas are generated from a knowledgeable participant pool and it is suited to explore areas where controversy, debate or a lack of clarity exist.

As you can see from our first two articles, except for item 4, our process has adhered to the Delphi method.

Calculation

How did we calculate the results?In our calculation, we simply used 70% yes-responses (“This is part of NLP”) as a cut off point. Within this area, we distinguished 90% and up.

• So the 2018 NLP Leadership Summit answer to ‘What is NLP’ is: the elements scoring 70% or more in the list below.
• You might say that everything scoring 90% and above is core NLP. These are set bold in the list below. In the original tables these items were given a yellow color, hence the name ‘Yellow List’.
• There are a few elements that are clearly voted as not NLP, like deep tissue massage. We took a 20% cut off for those and they are set to red in the list.
• Elements scoring higher than 20%, but below 70% are coloured grey.

We also calculated another list where the number of no-votes (“This is not part of NLP”) was subtracted from the number of yes-votes (“This is part of NLP”). If we used a 85% cut off with this formula, we were left mostly with NLP as it was in 1980.

Please note:

In this list, we show only the titles of the elements. For descriptions of the elements, please see the Elder Columns article Part 2.

The Elder Columns, Part III

The Results of the SurveyPreliminary Findings

Jaap Hollander, Lucas Derks, Bruce Grimley and Lisa de Rijk 

2018

Taraaah! here is the answer to ‘What is NLP?’
Maybe not the final, everlasting answer, but certainly the most authoritative answer so far.

In the Elder Columns Part I and Part II we described the arguments for defining NLP through voting and the NLP Leadership Summit group as an expert group suitable for voting. We also described the meticulous construction of ‘The List’ (the questionnaire) listing elements to vote on. You will find the whole story in these two articles: The Elder Columns
Part 1 (Describing our justification for the voting process) and The Elder Columns Part 2 (Discussing the many contributions from the LS community and how they influenced the list).

The panel
The panel we ended up with had a remarkable level of NLP-expertiseAll Leadership Summit members were invited to vote and 59 members did. The could vote ‘Is part of NLP’/’I don’t know’/’Is not part of NLP’.

Together they represent a remarkable amount of NLP-expertise. Between them, they have taught NLP for 1363 years and they have written 231 books on NLP. To our knowledge, never in the history of NLP has a group of this size, with this amount of NLP-expertise been asked to say what is NLP is and what is not.

The Delphi Method
We had been working according to the Delphi method.As it turns out, we have been using the Delphi Method, which has these characteristics:

1. It uses a group of participants (known as ‘panellists’) specially selected for their particular expertise on a topic.
2. It is often conducted across a series of two or more sequential questionnaires known as ‘rounds’. It employs an initial ‘idea generation’ stage, in which panellists are asked to identify the range of salient issues.
3. It collates ideas from Round 1 to construct the survey instrument distributed in subsequent rounds.
4. It has an evaluation phase (third or further rounds) where panellists are provided with the panel’s responses and asked to re-evaluate their original responses.
5. It is interested in the formation or exploration of consensus, often defined as the number of panellists agreeing with each other on questionnaire items.
6. It is particularly useful in areas of limited research, since survey instruments and ideas are generated from a knowledgeable participant pool and it is suited to explore areas where controversy, debate or a lack of clarity exist.

As you can see from our first two articles, except for item 4, our process has adhered to the Delphi method.

Calculation

How did we calculate the results?In our calculation, we simply used 70% yes-responses (“This is part of NLP”) as a cut off point. Within this area, we distinguished 90% and up.

• So the 2018 NLP Leadership Summit answer to ‘What is NLP’ is: the elements scoring 70% or more in the list below.
• You might say that everything scoring 90% and above is core NLP. These are set bold in the list below. In the original tables these items were given a yellow color, hence the name ‘Yellow List’.
• There are a few elements that are clearly voted as not NLP, like deep tissue massage. We took a 20% cut off for those and they are set to red in the list.
• Elements scoring higher than 20%, but below 70% are coloured grey.

We also calculated another list where the number of no-votes (“This is not part of NLP”) was subtracted from the number of yes-votes (“This is part of NLP”). If we used a 85% cut off with this formula, we were left mostly with NLP as it was in 1980.

Please note:

In this list, we show only the titles of the elements. For descriptions of the elements, please see the Elder Columns article Part 2.

The Elder Columns, Part III

The Results of the SurveyPreliminary Findings

Jaap Hollander, Lucas Derks, Bruce Grimley and Lisa de Rijk 

2018

Taraaah! here is the answer to ‘What is NLP?’
Maybe not the final, everlasting answer, but certainly the most authoritative answer so far.

In the Elder Columns Part I and Part II we described the arguments for defining NLP through voting and the NLP Leadership Summit group as an expert group suitable for voting. We also described the meticulous construction of ‘The List’ (the questionnaire) listing elements to vote on. You will find the whole story in these two articles: The Elder Columns Part 1 (Describing our justification for the voting process) and The Elder Columns Part 2 (Discussing the many contributions from the LS community and how they influenced the list).

The panelThe panel we ended up with had a remarkable level of NLP-expertiseAll Leadership Summit members were invited to vote and 59 members did. The could vote ‘Is part of NLP’/’I don’t know’/’Is not part of NLP’.

Together they represent a remarkable amount of NLP-expertise. Between them, they have taught NLP for 1363 years and they have written 231 books on NLP. To our knowledge, never in the history of NLP has a group of this size, with this amount of NLP-expertise been asked to say what is NLP is and what is not.

The Delphi MethodWe had been working according to the Delphi method.As it turns out, we have been using the Delphi Method, which has these characteristics:

1. It uses a group of participants (known as ‘panellists’) specially selected for their particular expertise on a topic.
2. It is often conducted across a series of two or more sequential questionnaires known as ‘rounds’. It employs an initial ‘idea generation’ stage, in which panellists are asked to
   identify the range of salient issues.
3. It collates ideas from Round 1 to construct the survey instrument distributed in subsequent rounds.
4. It has an evaluation phase (third or further rounds) where panellists are provided with the panel’s responses and asked to re-evaluate their original responses.
5. It is interested in the formation or exploration of consensus, often defined as the number of panellists agreeing with each other on questionnaire items.
6. It is particularly useful in areas of limited research, since survey instruments and ideas are generated from a knowledgeable participant pool and it is suited to explore areas where controversy, debate or a lack of clarity exist.

As you can see from our first two articles, except for item 4, our process has adhered to the Delphi method.

Calculation

How did we calculate the results?In our calculation, we simply used 70% yes-responses (“This is part of NLP”) as a cut off point. Within this area, we distinguished 90% and up.

• So the 2018 NLP Leadership Summit answer to ‘What is NLP’ is: the elements scoring 70% or more in the list below.
• You might say that everything scoring 90% and above is core NLP. These are set bold in the list below. In the original tables these items were given a yellow color, hence the name ‘Yellow List’.
• There are a few elements that are clearly voted as not NLP, like deep tissue massage. We took a 20% cut off for those and they are set to red in the list.
• Elements scoring higher than 20%, but below 70% are coloured grey.

We also calculated another list where the number of no-votes (“This is not part of NLP”) was subtracted from the number of yes-votes (“This is part of NLP”). If we used a 85% cut off with this formula, we were left mostly with NLP as it was in 1980.

Please note:

In this list, we show only the titles of the elements. For descriptions of the elements, please see the Elder Columns article Part 2.

The Elder Columns, Part III

The Results of the SurveyPreliminary Findings

Jaap Hollander, Lucas Derks, Bruce Grimley and Lisa de Rijk 

2018

Taraaah! here is the answer to ‘What is NLP?’Maybe not the final, everlasting answer, but certainly the most authoritative answer so far.

In the Elder Columns Part I and Part II we described the arguments for defining NLP through voting and the NLP Leadership Summit group as an expert group suitable for voting. We also described the meticulous construction of ‘The List’ (the questionnaire) listing elements to vote on. You will find the whole story in these two articles: The Elder Columns Part 1 (Describing our justification for the voting process) and The Elder Columns Part 2 (Discussing the many contributions from the LS community and how they influenced the list).

The panelThe panel we ended up with had a remarkable level of NLP-expertiseAll Leadership Summit members were invited to vote and 59 members did. The could vote ‘Is part of NLP’/’I don’t know’/’Is not part of NLP’.

Together they represent a remarkable amount of NLP-expertise. Between them, they have taught NLP for 1363 years and they have written 231 books on NLP. To our knowledge, never in the history of NLP has a group of this size, with this amount of NLP-expertise been asked to say what is NLP is and what is not.

The Delphi MethodWe had been working according to the Delphi method.As it turns out, we have been using the Delphi Method, which has these characteristics:

1. It uses a group of participants (known as ‘panellists’) specially selected for their particular expertise on a topic.
2. It is often conducted across a series of two or more sequential questionnaires known as ‘rounds’. It employs an initial ‘idea generation’ stage, in which panellists are asked to identify the range of salient issues.
3. It collates ideas from Round 1 to construct the survey instrument distributed in subsequent rounds.
4. It has an evaluation phase (third or further rounds) where panellists are provided with the panel’s responses and asked to re-evaluate their original responses.
5. It is interested in the formation or exploration of consensus, often defined as the number of panellists agreeing with each other on questionnaire items.
6. It is particularly useful in areas of limited research, since survey instruments and ideas are generated from a knowledgeable participant pool and it is suited to explore areas where controversy, debate or a lack of clarity exist.

As you can see from our first two articles, except for item 4, our process has adhered to the Delphi method.

Calculation

How did we calculate the results?In our calculation, we simply used 70% yes-responses (“This is part of NLP”) as a cut off point. Within this area, we distinguished 90% and up.

• So the 2018 NLP Leadership Summit answer to ‘What is NLP’ is: the elements scoring 70% or more in the list below.
• You might say that everything scoring 90% and above is core NLP. These are set bold in the list below. In the original tables these items wer
  e given a yellow color, hence the name ‘Yellow List’.
• There are a few elements that are clearly voted as not NLP, like deep tissue massage. We took a 20% cut off for those and they are set to red in the list.
• Elements scoring higher than 20%, but below 70% are coloured grey.

We also calculated another list where the number of no-votes (“This is not part of NLP”) was subtracted from the number of yes-votes (“This is part of NLP”). If we used a 85% cut off with this formula, we were left mostly with NLP as it was in 1980.

Please note:

In this list, we show only the titles of the elements. For descriptions of the elements, please see the Elder Columns article Part 2.