[Neurons] Ready for Trainers' Training --- Presentation Skills?
Michael Hall
meta at acsol.net
Mon Apr 10 15:16:58 EDT 2017
From: L. Michael Hall
Article originally written in 2010
NSTT in 2017 --- July 22-August 5
Rio de Janeiro Brazil
Contact: Jairo at inaprj.com.br
TAKING TRAINERS TRAINING
TO A HIGHER LEVEL
"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 does not 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 short
Practitioner Trainings are shocked to discover all of the things that they
have not been taught and/or the mis-information taught. We spend time at
NSTT to correct a lot of that.
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. These
flexibility drills will surprise, delight, sometimes shock you and they will
be some of the most memorable experiences that you will take away from NSTT.
You will 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. We seek to distinguish ourselves from so much of the field where is
still a lot of competition, scarcity, petty bickering, fighting about
"intellectual property," refusal to acknowledge sources, the inability to
work through conflicts, 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 - We view Trainers as those who can stesp up to be Leaders
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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NSTT in 2017 --- July 22-August 5
Rio de Janeiro Brazil
Contact: Jairo at inaprj.com.br
L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
Neuro-Semantics Executive Director
Neuro-Semantics International
P.O. Box 8
Clifton, CO. 81520 USA
1 970-523-7877
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