Meta-Programs & Personality Profiling Flashcards

A client describes herself as motivated primarily by avoiding failure, embarrassment, and negative outcomes. In NLP meta-program terms, she has a strong:

Answer: Away From pattern

The Away From pattern describes motivation that is driven by moving away from pain, problems, or feared outcomes rather than toward desired goals.

Which meta-program dimension is MOST directly assessed by asking a client, 'How do you know you've done a good job at work?'

Answer: Internal vs. External frame of reference

This classic elicitation question reveals whether the client relies on their own internal evaluation or on external signs and feedback to judge performance.

A client who delights in generating creative alternatives, resists following prescribed steps, and often starts projects without completing them is best described by which meta-program?

Answer: Options meta-program

Options people love creating possibilities and alternatives and feel constrained by rigid step-by-step procedures, often leaving projects before completion.

In NLP personality profiling, a 'Sameness with Exception' sorter differs from a pure Sameness sorter primarily because they:

Answer: Accept gradual or evolutionary change while still preferring continuity

Sameness with Exception sorters are comfortable with slow, incremental change while still fundamentally preferring consistency and familiarity.

A coach observes that a client speaks almost exclusively in abstractions, rarely gives concrete examples, and becomes impatient when asked for specifics. This suggests a preference for:

Answer: Large chunk / global processing

Global (large chunk) thinkers communicate in broad concepts and abstractions and can become irritated by requests for fine-grained specifics.

Which of the following is a key risk when an NLP coach incorrectly labels a client's meta-program based on one context?

Answer: The coach may design interventions mismatched to the client's actual natural patterns

Meta-programs are context-dependent and misidentifying them based on one situation can lead to coaching strategies that are ineffective or counterproductive.

In NLP, 'meta-programs' are best described as:

Answer: Habitual unconscious filters that govern how a person sorts and processes experience

Meta-programs are largely unconscious, habitual perceptual filters that shape how individuals delete, distort, and generalize their experience of the world.