[Neurons] 2011 Meta Reflections #43

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

Re: Training Trainers

Meta Reflections 2011 - #43

Sept. 10, 2011

 

 

 

 

WHAT'S SO GREAT ABOUT NSTT?

 

 

NSTT is Neuro-Semantic Trainers' Training and for more than a decade we have
been training people to step up to the leadership role of Trainers and
Presenters.  And each year we run NSTT somewhere in the world.  I think it
is the greatest program for training Trainers anywhere in the field of NLP
by far.  Of course, I'm prejudiced about this!  Yet in spite of my biases-
the question remains:

                        What's so great about NSTT?

 

I did my trainers training in 1990 and when I did, I was also on the staff.
The reason for that is that Richard Bandler had asked me to "make the notes"
of that training.  Those notes are now the spiral book, Becoming More
Ferocious as a Presenter.  And while I participated in some NLP Trainers'
Training, when we began offering Trainers' Training in Neuro-Semanitcs in
1999, I made several decisions:

1) I would not conduct Trainers' Training the way I had received it or seen
others do it.

2) I would study "training" as an experience and look for the structure and
then design a training that would actually create training competence.

3) I would conduct a modeling project looking for the skill-set and core
competencies of excellence in training.

4) I would figure out a way to benchmark the skills so we could measure the
actual skill.

 

Why did I make the first decision above?  Because of the low level of actual
training skill in the field of NLP.  And because there are plenty of NLP
trainers who confuse "manipulation" with training skill!  And because lots
of NLP Trainers don't seem to understand the importance of "applying NLP to
self" and so are incongruent and ineffective.

 

Why did I make the other decisions?  Because Neuro-Semantic NLP is about
modeling excellence!  What then happened was that over the years we
developed the skill-set of competencies and developed processes for
benchmarking these intangible skills.  Also, as we devoted APG as the
flagship training of Neuro-Semantics (introducing the Meta-States Model and
applying it to the genius state of being in the zone at will), began
creating processes for effective public speaking (Presentation University).
So over the past decade with every presentation of NSTT, that program is
continually refined so that it becomes richer and richer.

 

Content

Today at NSTT - you receive training in your public speaking skills so that
you can develop your engagement, framing, metaphorical, and semantic spatial
skills which would make President Obama look like an amateur.  And you will
receive a behavioral measurement that will enable you to recognize precisely
where you are in your skill-development and the next steps to take to reach
whatever level of competency you desire.  You will receive training in
training design and delivery so that you can not only do keynote
presentations and seminars, but also in-depth trainings for competency. 

 

Then to give you a psychological foundation for how people actualize their
highest and best in a training environment, you receive three days of The
Psychology of APG.  This enables you to design and redesign APG in numerous
ways to create customized trainings for groups and organizations that you
work with.  Finally, NSTT ends with three days of business skills- skills
required for running a successful training business or selling yourself as a
trainer to organizations.

 

Community

Yet in training trainer- leaders in NSTT, we aim to do more.  We aim to
create leaders: thought-leaders, innovative leaders, community leaders, etc.
Because to stand up before a group and to effectively communicate your ideas
is to lead- to bring out the best in people, to set a vision about
actualizing new potentials, to lead out from anything and everything that
leashes people and interferes with them living a self-actualizing life.  And
we are doing this because we have set the objective for ourselves of
grooming leaders within the international community of Neuro-Semantics.  So
to do that, we use the two-weeks of NSTT to create a community of trainers
and to encourage a deep networking that will generate new friendships and
business partnership for a lifetime.

 

This is one reason is typically only run NSTT once a year somewhere in the
world.  By doing so, we create an international training so you can begin
creating links and personal connections with people from numerous countries.
You begin to learn how to communicate effective in an International Context
and across many cultures.

 

As you then become a part of the Neuro-Semantic NLP community, the
International Society of Neuro-Semantics, you have a world-wide community of
support behind you.  The ISNS then offers you training manuals and materials
so you don't have to re-invent such, you become part of the exclusive
Trainers' egroup, and you receive posts every week to support your ongoing
development.

 

Competency

With the benchmarks of Presentation skills and Training skills, we are now
able to describe a person's leadership skills in presenting and training in
precise behavioral terms.  And because of this, the trainer learns from the
inside-out how to experience being benchmarked and the importance of
offering a competency-based training in organizations.  This raises the
quality of the training and enables an organization to recognize the ROI
(return on investment) because it gives people a way to measure what is
typically as unmeasurable. 

 

Also the competency-based training at NSTT has another effect.  If you can
demonstrate your core competencies under the pressure of being benchmarked,
and maintain a calm "presence of mind" that manages any and all
performance-anxiety, then you'll be more ready to take on bigger
assignments, like speaking at big conferences.

 

Commitment

It takes commitment.  Lots of it!  The training is a boot-camp- intense,
rigorous, fun, and demanding that a person applies the models to self.  It's
not for the faint of heart; it is not for someone who wants a vacation from
effort or mindfulness.  We hold the cost so that it is still half the cost
of most NLP trainings, but we have not held the rigorous demandingness of
the training.  Leadership requires a lot and trainer-as-leader needs to be
able to stand strong against criticism as he or she takes a stand.  And for
those who are already NLP trainers, we offer NSTT at half price.

 

Interested?  The next one is coming up in October in Hong Kong.  It will be
presented by L. Michael Hall and Colin Cox, Neuro-Semantic Master Trainer.

 

When: October 17-27, 2011

 

Where:            Venue: Regal Riverside Hotel, Shatin, Hong Kong

 

Investment      US $4,000  - but a big savings if you register by September
30.

                        To find out about the special savings -  contact:

 

Contact:           Mandy Chai      <mailto:Mandy at apti.com.hk;>
Mandy at apti.com.hk; 

                        Alex Chan  <mailto:Alex at apti.com.hk>
Alex at apti.com.hk 

 

Also:                For Meta-Coaches and others who have already
experienced APG:

 

The Psychology of APG

                        Date: 17-19 October

                        Venue: Regal Riverside Hotel, Shatin, Hong Kong

                        Investment: Normally US $750 (US $500 before 1 Oct)

                        Emails:  <mailto:mandy at apti.com.hk>
mandy at apti.com.hk /  <mailto:alex at apti.com.hk> alex at apti.com.hk

 

 

 

 

 

L.  Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Neuro-Semantics Executive Director  ----   <http://www.neurosemantics.com/>
www.neurosemantics.com

P.O. Box 8

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<http://www.self-actualizing.org/> www.self-actualizing.org

1 970-523-7877                                               ----
<http://www.meta-coaching.org/> www.meta-coaching.org

 

    

 

 

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