[Neurons] Want to Out Perform Obama?

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From: L. Michael Hall

Are you ready to Out-Perform Obama?

Feb. 2008 



If speaking skills can define and brand a leader, then Barak Obama demonstrates the power of public speaking to define and brand you.  Wherever you are in the world, if you listened to the news at all-then I'm sure you have heard about Obama and about the way he uses his speaking skills to influence and charm people. I have heard 6 of his speeches after the primary elections in many of the states. I've heard his speeches both at times when he lost and when he won.  And in spite of his politics, I'm impressed with his presentation skills.

He certainly knows a lot about reading an audience and finding refrains that he then encourage them to say along with him like his now famous, "Yes, we can!" refrain. His skills for getting attention, setting frames, "working an audience," and inciting a vision and direction are excellent. He has also developed his voice so that it is clear, forceful, and passionate.

Now he could become better and I suspect that he will. In fact, over the period of his presentations and the "debates," he has improved- he has become more specific, more focused, more confident, etc. He has already refined his speech so that he's more succinct and able to make his points with greater clarity. So if I were his coach, I would work with him to shape his use of semantic space in his gestures and movements. Currently he is pretty weak in that area.

I would coach him using the Neuro-Semantics benchmarks for platform skills, the very benchmarks that we have created and that we use when we benchmark the competency skills of trainers for public presentations. No other Trainers Training in NLP, or any other field that I know about, does that.

Because it is your platform skills which can distinguish you as an excellent public speaker and leader, these specific competencies are critical. These are the skills that enable you to present competently when you want to influence, inspire, lead, and transform. 

C When you are called to stand up and present your ideas, your vision, your values, or your plans, are you able to stand up with confidence and passion knowing that you are in your best state and fully able to effectively influence the minds and hearts of people and do so in a way that will be transformative?

C Would you like to?

C Would you like to out-perform Barak Obama in terms of influencing through your presentations?

You can! How? Where? At this year's Neuro-Semantic Trainer's Training (NSTT) in New Zealand. In fact, the first thing we focus on in NSTT are the Platform Skills as the processes that make for effective public speaking and presenting. This is an inherent part of becoming highly skilled in creating and delivering influential presentations that touch and transform people. So if you are ready to unleash your highest and best presentation skills, this is the training.

These platform skills, based upon the critical success factors of skillful and masterful presenters, will empower you so you can step up on any stage and make a magical presentation. The skills will enable you to influence groups as you present your ideas with elegance. And, best of all, you will discover in your presentations a way to measure your current skill level and with that benchmark, you will be able to discover precisely what to do to take your competence to the next level. 

In this training in the critical platform skills for influential presentations, you will learn the critical success factors. You will also develop your top ten states for effectively presenting. You will then establish your best core question that your presentation will be the answer to. What else is there? You will discover the secrets for getting group rapport and engagement, how to choreograph your message with your gestures and movements on stage, how to find your voice and the art of using your voice effectively, how to set the frames with an audience, and how to effectively induce state with groups.

All of these ground-breaking communication skills come from Neuro-Semantic NLP and the Self-Actualization models whereby we are able to translate our great ideas and meanings into actual performance. The skills you will develop to become a highly influential public speaker are these: 

1) Group Rapport

2) Spatial Anchoring

3) Engagement

4) Effective use of voice

5) Induction of state

6) Framing

7) Use of Metaphors

8) Giving and receiving feedback

9) Making it memorable

10) Effective demonstrating processes

11) Handling questions

12) Well structured for why, what, how, and what if

The training is designed so t hat you will receive immediate feedback in real time as you make presentations and so will be able to shape your best platform skills. This year the international team of Neuro-Semantic trainers include L. Michael Hall, Master Trainer Colin Cox, and Omar Salom from South America and we will be supported by Steve Hodgson, Rosie Davoli, and Lena Gray who will be part of the Benchmarking Team.

Lena Gray is in charge of registration for NSTT and you can reach her at Lena at ignition.org.nz


L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
Neuro-Semantics Ltd., Executive Director
ISNS - International Society of Neuro-Semantics
P.O. Box 8
Clifton, Colorado, 81520 USA
www.neurosemantics.com 
www.meta-coaching.org
www.self-actualizing.org 

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