1. Environment
2. Behavior
3. Capabilities/skills
4. Beliefs and values
5. Identity
6. Purpose
Example questions to discover each level of the hierarchy:
Environment: external factors or constraints
When specifically?
Who specifically?
With whom specifically?
Behavior: performance, actions and reactions
What is it specifically that you say?
What is it specifically that you do?
Capabilities: knowledge, skills, competencies
How specifically?
How specifically do you do it?
What specifically are your capabilities?
What specifically are you (not yet) capable of?
Beliefs and values:
Why?
What specifically is important to you?
What specifically do you believe in?
Identity: how you think of yourself
Who are you?
Purpose: the bigger picture
What for?
Who for?
What is your mission?
The rules of thumb in the logical levels of NLP are:
1. A higher level organizes information of the lower levels.
2. Changes in the lower levels CAN affect a change in the higher levels
3. Changes in the higher levels WILL affect a change in the lower levels
4. Solutions are usually found in a higher level than where the problem is located