Chapter 19. Coaching the presenter

<authorgroup>Jon Symes</authorgroup>

Coaching business people in the art of giving presentations has provided me with some very interesting challenges and is an area where a wide range of NLP ideas have immediate application. I am going to describe three coaching assignments where I have used NLP techniques to help clients break through thinking patterns that were previously limiting their performances in very different ways. The three techniques[1] are:

  • reframing

  • the six-step reframe

  • language location pattern.

Presenters can usually make some quick, relatively easy, and very audible improvements to their spoken message by the introduction of clear outcome thinking (‘What do I want to happen as a result of this presentation?’), ...

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