Thinking on Your Feet using NLP

Introduction

Ever find yourself rambling on and stumbling for answers? Have a hard time getting your ideas across? This is not an uncommon situation. Whether you are put on the spot while attending a meeting, presenting a proposal, selling an idea, or answering questions after a presentation, articulating your thoughts in unanticipated situations in a skill. Thinking on your feet is highly coveted skill and when you master it, your clever and astute responses will instill immediate confidence in what you are saying.

When you can translate your thoughts and ideas into coherent speech quickly, you ensure your ideas are heard. You also come across as being confident, persuasive, and trustworthy. Confidence is key when learning to think on your feet. When you present information, give an opinion or provide suggestions, making  sure you know what you are talking about and that you are well informed is highly important.

The secret of thinking on your feet using NLP is to be prepared: learn the psychological skills and scientifically proven tactics, and do some preparation for situations that might put you under pressure. Then when you do find yourself faced with unexpected questions and debate, you'll be ready to draw on these tactics and preparation, and so stay poised while you compose your thoughts and prepare your response.

This invaluable highly interactive and relevant workshop teaches critical skills to get ideas across clearly, concisely, and persuasively.

Course Objective
By the end of this course, participants will:

• Learn to speak with brevity, clarity and persuasively
• Master getting to the point and being remembered
• Learn effective fall-back techniques when caught off-guard
• Learn to present ideas effectively
• Handle questions quicker, more consicely and persuasively
• Divide massive information into easy to handle chunks
• Learn to bridge from question to answer
• Handling limiting language patterns effetively
• Dealing with others in a way they can't say "No"

Course Outline

The ability to think on our feet is now a core skill in management. It means getting your ideas across clearly, consisely, persuasively (and being remembered). Everyone wants you to get to the point quickly. Thinking on Your Feet using NLP introduces the persuasion techniques and concepts in NLP proven to quickly plans and structure your ideas for impacts.

Lesson 1 - Getting to the Point and Being Remembered

• Audience-centre Communication
• Structuring ideas simple and clearly
• Speaking in different situations: one-on-one, on the phone, in meetings, informal presentations

Lesson 2 - Presenting your ideas

• Clearly
• Concisely
• Powerfully
• 7-38-55 Rule

Lesson 4 - Handling Questions Quickly, Clearly and Persuasively

• Soft probing techniques using Language Softeners
• Backtracking to gain deeper understanding on questions asked
• Pacing and Leading to be quick, clear and persuasive

Lesson 5 - Effective Listening Techniques in NLP, Addressing the deepest need of the human soul:

• Empathic Listening technique
• Listen to what hasn't been said
• Getting deep into the maps to understand, affirm, validate and appreciate others

Lesson 6 - Avoiding Common Communication Traps

• Keeping on Track
• Avoiding information overload
• Addressing your listener's core concerns

Lesson 7 - Persuasive Techniques to shift Perspectives

• Understanding perspectives/ maps of others
• Help others shift perspectives
• The "Map is not the Territory"

Lesson 8 - Bridging from Question to Answer

• Buying time
• The Wise Response is in not the Right Answers but the Right Questions
• Handing objections and tough questions positively using Reframes

Lesson 9 - Broadening your listener's perspective Handling Meta model Violations (limiting language patterns)

• Generalizations
• Deletions
• Distortions

Lesson 10 - Moving two opposing viewpoints to a middle ground

• Negotiating a win-win outcome
• Dealing with others in a way they can't say "NO"
• Moving to action

Trainer's Profile

Daniel Wong has more than 27 years experience in the corporate world, out of which 12 years has been spent on coaching and training: teaching Management and Leadership skills, Selling and Negotiation skills, Course Consulting or Counseling skills, Effective Communication, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Sub-conscious learning skills.

In the process, he has been continually coaching and motivating all his students, staffs and associates to learn, grow and expand their personal paradigmd and horizons. Positions held in the various multi-national corporate companies include from a young Installation/ Service Engineer to Department Manager and General Manager of a leading MNC.

He also has extensive marketing and sales experience; from selling single course programs to education franchise business; as well as single pieces of equipment right-up to multi-million US dollar projects more than 15 years.

In his last major corporate appoinment as Assistant General Manager of GEC (UK), Mahkota Technologies, where he was fully in-charge of both local and regional sales for his Division, he successfully managed over 15 different products and systems, with an annual turnover of RM 60 million, for both the domestic and regional markets.

Currently, he is actively involved as a Module Writer & Training Facilitator for PNS Academy, the government agency in-charge of all franchise businesses in the country, focusing on teaching people management skills and franchise business expansion program at Advanced Level.

Daniel recognizes great potential within each indiviual participant. He believes in making a difference in their learning through his personalized, demonstrative, practical and dynamic approach to make training an enjoyable and valueable experience. His passion for training stems from his innate desire to empower all those individuals who are keen to seek knowledge, wisdom and self improvement; so that they can be the person they need to be and to have what they want in life.

* Tailer made course outline based on client's need.
* Minimun pax: 12
* Maximun pax: 25
* HRDF Claimable
* Zero cost meet up with our expert (based on availability and location)
* Post training report
* Fully colour printed course notes
* Souvenir

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