TRAINERS’ TRAINING IN HONG KONG

Each year the training that we do with Trainers to another place on the globe, and there’s a reason for that. Our aim is to make the training, Neuro-Semantic Trainers’ Training (NSTT) international and yet more than that— to use the training to continue to create an international community of people united through a common vision. So we focus on different regions of the world by taking the training to different countries. This year we are in Hong Kong (2017 will be Brazil, 2018 in Australia, etc.). Each year we have 40 to 70 persons in the training, this year a smaller group of 40 from 10 countries and a team of 10 who facilitate the training.

Now Neuro-Semantic Trainers’ Training is unlike every other Training in the world in many ways. The one that stands out most to trainers is the benchmarking. We have benchmarked the basic presentation skills of Engagement, Group Rapport, Framing, Use of Voice, Use of Space (semantic space and gesturing), 4-matting, State Induction Demonstrating, Q&A, and another 30 training skills. When I say we have benchmark, we have created behavior indicators for each skill and put them along a continuum of competence. For some skill we have identified 30 or more behaviors and these are the behaviors that we look for when a person speaks.

Often very experienced trainers come and discover, sometimes to their amazement, that there are many, many factors of a skill that they were not even aware of, let alone using. Some discover that they are actually doing things that disengage, break rapport, communicate without precision or inspiration, etc. This is equally true for NLP Trainers who learn about the structure of presentation and adult learning at levels that they never knew about.

To that end, every person who comes is up on his or her feet making presentations every day. The first three days we have “flexibility drills” by which we push and stretch and challenge people to get out of their comfort zones and to be able to handle anything that happens in a training context. Then we have people presenting a single pattern for the next 6 days, two times a day, getting precise feedback with each presentation. By days 11 and 12 we have the finals, 30 minute presentations which are benchmarked against the nine skills. This is all completely unique and unmatched anywhere.

Another key difference is that we train for Collaborative Leadership. We do not just run a training and say “goodbye,” “good luck.” We provide ongoing support as a world-wide community. We have organized national Institutes (now 20 of them) around the world with leadership teams in each. We have a weekly communication to all of the Trainers. We have specialized egroups for those who want to move to the Master Trainer level (which again has the highest standards in the world) and the Meta- Coach Trainer group (which involves a 3 to 5 year internship). There’s much more to say, and there are articles on this on the Neuro-Semantic website. Here are some pictures from this years NSTT.