TRAINING FOR BECOMING A PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATOR

As you know, NLP is a communication model and Neuro-Semantics deepens communication making it all the more richer and more robust as it goes to the hidden frames. Therefore it’s no surprise that we not only train the basic communication training in NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner, but we also do that in the Meta-Coach trainings. In fact, the Meta-Coaching track includes both NLP and Meta-States in Modules I and II of Meta-Coaching. Then in Module III we add six more models—all for the purpose of being able to hold “a conversation like non- other.”

This explains why we give two different Certificates for Module III of Meta-Coaching, one a Coaching Certification (ACMC) and the other a Certificate for being a Professional Communicator. These trainings are our competency based trainings for learning all of the basics which are required for beginning to become truly professional as a communicator. This also explains why we have lots and lots of managers, leaders, CEOs, business owners, consultants, therapists, and others taking these trainings.

We began giving the Professional Communicator Certificate for ACMC training (Coaching Mastery) in 2005 when we had several C-level leaders and managers attend (CEO, CFO, COO, etc.). They didn’t want a Coaching Certificate. Yet they found that the 7-core coaching skills were simultaneously 7-core leadership skills: Creating Relationships via listening and supporting. Exploring meanings and gathering information via questioning and meta-questioning. Establishing individual and team accountability via giving and receiving Feedback . Enabling implementation and innovation via state induction.

They also noted that the focus on framing, meaning-making, slowing conversations down, using the Communication Guidelines, and thinking systemically about communication, getting to the frames behind the communication greatly enhanced their leadership. Most were absolutely amazed— and surprised— not suspecting that there would be so much leadership in the coaching skills. When I was asked why that was, I noted that people engage a coach not to get advice, but to identify and mobilize their own hidden potentials and capacities. And that meant allowing the coach to lead them where they specify that they want to go. Coaching then is itself a leadership skill.

No wonder then over the past twenty years of this new century that Leaders and Managers all around the planet have been adding “coaching” to their leadership skills. Now they lead via coaching colleagues, and those down the reporting line, to find their own resources, capacities, and potentials. No wonder entrepreneurs also come to the Meta-Coaching trainings to develop their ability to work well with people in a business context. That’s usually their weakness. They are excellent at inventing something new, conceiving a new service or formatting of information. They are not so good at communicating their innovative ideas and/or sell them to investors.

So learning the models in the Meta-Coaching system is to learn how to be a much more professional communicator.

The Facilitation Model explains the needs for balancing challenge and compassion— the meaning of the work and the care of the relationship. The Axes of Change provides a way to enable transformative change in people. It enables the ability to lead motivation, thoughtful and decisive decision-making, creative invention for doing things in new ways, and an never-ending process of continuous improvement to integrate the change into lifestyle. The Benchmarking Model offers a way to measure intangible things that have previously been near-impossible to measure. The Matrix Model for thinking and working systemically when there’s a wide-range of variables which are simultaneously in play and be able to following information into a human system and energy out. The Self-Actualization Matrix, Quadrants, and Assessment Scale for understanding the basic drives and needs of people and how to facilitate bringing out their best so that they unleash their potentials. The Meta-Programs Model for understanding the thinking, feeling, choosing, and semantic patterns of people and colleagues and how to adjust one’s communications so that it fits their ways of thinking and responding.

The secret for becoming a professional communicator lies in the NLP and Neuro-Semantics models and these are available in the basic trainings. They are also formatted specifically for communication excellence in the Meta-Coach trainings.

[For more, see The Meta-Coaching System]