[Neurons] 2014 "Neurons" Meta Reflections #22

Thu May 29 08:57:44 EDT 2014

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta Reflections 2014 #22

May 29, 2014

TAKING TRAINERS TRAINING

TO A HIGHER LEVEL

IN 2014

“The quality of any field depends on the quality of those leading that field.”  That’s what I realized when the field of NLP went through a crisis in the 1990s.  As a result, Neuro-Semantics emerged during that crisis as a call upon the field to step up to become more professional.  Our original call was to stop the bickering and fighting, learn to apply the NLP communication model to ourselves, develop more integrity and congruency, collaborate rather than compete, acknowledge sources and others rather than ignore them or put them down, and be credible leaders.  That’s how Neuro-Semantics began.

Four years after the Neuro-Semantic movement within NLP got underway, I conducted our first Training for Trainers.  In so doing, my goal was to take the quality of trainers to the next higher level.  So in Trainers’ Training we not only focus on public speaking (platform) skills, training skills, business skills, etc., we also focus on the character of the trainers— being authentic, congruent, collaborative, living with integrity, etc.  Those of us leading out felt this was a missing piece.

Our aim was to raise the level of competency and integrity in the NLP / Neuro-Semantic trainers and leaders.  To that end we incorporated several new things into the Trainers’ Training that doesn’t occur in other NLP Trainers’ Training.

∙           People receive a 22-page test before they come so that they can discover what they do and do not know.  Many who come through the 5-day or 7-day Practitioner Trainers are shocked to discover all that they have not been taught and/or the mis-information taught.

∙           People have to get a Letter of Recommendation from a Neuro-Semantic Trainer, ideally the person who trained them in Meta-States (the APG training).  To this extent, NSTT is an exclusive-by-invitation training. 

∙           People are benchmarked every day (and two times) in their presentations so that they are given specific behavior feedback about their skill level and what to do to improve it.

∙           People enter into a Community for ongoing support, accountability, and credibility.

∙           People are constantly challenged to apply to self using the self-reflexivity processes that are inherent in the Meta-States Model.

The Vision of High Quality Trainers 

In designing Trainers’ Training and in continually improving it, today we start off with three days of the Psychology that’s within and behind NLP and Meta-States.  This gives a deep background understanding of the personal and group dynamics that the trainers are working with.  Knowing the Psychology of NLP and Meta-States gives the trainers a real advantage.

Next we put everybody through very intense, fun, and strange drills that loosen people up and prepare them for new levels of flexibility.  Colin Cox designed these and they are some of the most memorable experiences of NSTT.  People talk about them for years and years afterwards.

We then focus on providing detailed, specific shaping-feedback every single day for the presentations.  Trainers take one pattern from APG and present it over and over.  In that way they learn the content of that pattern inside out as they also get to use all of the Platform Skills in their presentation, and get immediate feedback.  With that feedback, they then immediately do it again.  Now incorporating that feedback to make immediate adjustments and shifts.  There’s nothing like that anywhere else.  This forces them to learn how to keep themselves fresh the 10th time they present the pattern as the first.

The benchmarks apply to Master Trainers as well.  So for the first 8 evenings, the Master Trainers present key content about presenting and training to the group and are benchmarked in front of the group.  Here the new participants get to see high level presentation skills demonstrated as well as the spirit of those who have developed expertise regarding the value of such feedback which they can really get nowhere else.

In NSTT we also train Training Skills— the design, structure, and processes using NLP and Neuro-Semantic models for providing trainings.  Participants learn how to use the Meta-Model, Meta-Programs, Meta-States, etc. in designing a training and planning how best to transfer knowledge into skill.

Another subject that we work with every single day after the fourth day is business acumen.  That’s because we want trainers to be able to successfully sell themselves as trainers and speakers and/or to run a successful and commercially viable business.  So we bring in the Master Trainers who are actually doing that and provide interviews and discussions. 

With the benchmarks and all of these prerequisites— we have made the Certificate and the License to truly mean something.  That’s why we provide it only when the candidate reaches all of the requirements.  Until then it is provisional.  With the final Licensing, a trainer knows that he or she has truly earned it and that it means something — integrity and competency!

In all of this, we do the training right now only one time a year and so make it an international training.  That’s because in addition to everything else, we are creating community.  In fact, we are Neuro-Semantics are the only fully functioning and operational “community” in the field of NLP today.  In the rest of the field there is still a lot of competition, scarcity, petty bickering, fighting about “intellectual property,” refusal to acknowledge sources, etc. 

A New and Higher Level of Trainers’ Training 

By stepping back to the problems that we recognized in the field and by reflecting on solutions to those problems, we have invented NSTT— Neuro-Semantic Trainers’ Training.   This is our answer to some of those problems.  We came up with this by asking ourselves:

∙           What kind of leaders and trainers do we want?

∙           What kind of trainers would truly represent the spirit of NLP? 

∙           What qualities do we want in our trainers and leaders?

∙           How would we go about training in those kinds of traits, features, skills, and relational qualities?

∙           How could we measure or benchmark the quality of trainers?

∙           How could we create a network of cooperation and collaboration world-wide and raise the vision of trainers that we are all in this together?

In NSTT — Trainers are viewed as Leaders and Models

A beginning place that sets the frame for what we are attempting to do is that every trainer is a leader and needs to behave as such.  Whether a trainer realizes it or not, everyone who teaches, presents, trains, and even uses NLP and Neuro-Semantics publically with clients is in a leading role and will be seen and evaluated as a living model of what he or she teaches.

In this way we are strategically focusing on building in a strong sense of personal responsibility in our trainers regarding how we talk, act, relate, and live.  This will communicate as much about NLP as the content of our trainings.  Our aim: to develop trainers who walk their talk.  Our aim is to create trainers with the heart of leadership—leading out and showing the way by action.

Raising the Benchmarking Level

The next distinguishing factor of NSTT is measurement.  How do we measure “walking the talk?”  How do we de-nominalize congruency, integrity, leadership, cooperation, collaboration, professional, etc.?  By benchmarking. 

Again, we use NLP with ourselves.  We de-nominalize vague and fluffy terms so that we can operationalize our talk and find a way to measure what we want to create in the real world.  This corresponds to modeling.  Today we have two-dozen presentation and training skills benchmarked.

Benchmarking has provided fascinating insights into the structure of the experience of skill development.   It provides a mirror so that we can see where we are in terms of the quality of a given skill and what are the behaviors that will enable us to take our skill to the next level.  It also invites true feedback (in contradistinction to judgment).  Now colleagues can reflect back in specific see-hear-feel terms precisely what we are doing so that we can make cleaner and more discreet shifts in our actions, gestures, language, etc.

Benchmarking as a process sets the frame that skills are activities that can be measured and improved.  This sets the frame —we can always take our skills to the next level.

Challenging Trainers to Step Up 

Ask yourself, “Am I personally applying this to myself?”  What makes the apply to self frame so challenging is that it holds us responsible and accountable.  And most of the trainers who come to NSTT love this.  In fact, they can’t get enough of it.  And that’s the kind of person we are looking for.  How about you?  Up for the challenge?

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Trainer’s Training --- for High Level Presentation Skills

·        This year we take NSTT to Brazil where Colin Cox and I will co-train it along with a group of our Master Trainers.  If training  is what you do--- there’s no program as intense, rigorous, or of higher quality than this one.  Want to be challenged?  This is for you!  Ready to be stretched to your potentials?  We’ve designed this for you.

·        July 19—August 2, 2014

Contact:

Maíra Larangeira --- maira at pnl.med.br 

          Dr. Jairo Mancilha --- Jairo at pnl.med.br 

Maíra Larangeira Carvalho
Diretora Executiva INAp & InCoaching
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(21) 9623-7500
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L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

                Neuro-Semantics Executive Director 

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