I was mulling over the post I threw together yesterday and asking myself, what would I offer to be different to any other trainers?
One answer occurred to me. If my aim was to cause a total win/win for my clients and their employees, a win/win that positively impacted their whole business and lives, then that in itself would be an attraction.
Yet there is the good old fashioned sales pitch to consider. All this work, is a sale. All talking therapies are actually selling an idea, a way to change, a new view of the self and provoking the client to find a new way out. This is a hard sale is it not in many cases?
NLP, various brief therapies, hypnotherapy and other forms of intervention carry jargon and new labels with them. My new company would need to have one particular genius-can I use the best of various disciplines to help all clients, whilst using straightforward everyday terms?
To my mind, I need to have the skill and sensitivity to be able to sell my product to a 12 year old, to a mechanic, to an office worker, a doctor or a top executive.
So the seminar and training program needs to be alive for people, as does the individual coaching sessions. Alive with solid description that paints pictures, rings bells and gives people a complete solid grasp of applicable new concepts.
This may be more complex than my simply getting over a fear of public speaking or of creating a business out of inexperience. However, the company HAS to be unique and the best. Not just motivation, not just life coaching and/or NLP, but a solid concise commonsense program that creates a deep lasting impact for all concerned.
Right now, I’m at the beginning. I’m looking at the various skills needed and am a beginner. However, all journeys start with a step, and both writing my thoughts up and making the public speaking course happen are some beginning steps. I may well publish much of my creation online, freely available to all and sundry. What I will be selling is my ability to train people to use these skills in the real world.
Further book reviews will appear on the other blog shortly.













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April 17, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Public speaking courses
Hi,
Good luck with your new venture. I started my own public speaking training organisation a few years back and have a ball in it.
I was speaking to a client last week about why the one-on-one coaching was so successful. I explained that all great athelets have coaches. Look at Lleyton Hewitt, Tiger Woods and Ian Thorpe – they all haev coaches! A good public speaking coach can look at a persentation and see where it can be improved. They are not to close to the topic or speech and can therefore be objective. This is what is needed.
Good luck setting up your business. It is great fun.
Cheers
Darren Fleming
Australias Public speaking coach
http://www.executivespeaking.com.au
April 17, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Public speaking courses
BTW, you are right. You do need a point of difference. A common sense approach is perfect. Too many public speaking businesses out there try to make their clients into The next world champion speaker, when all they really want to be able to do is present their ideas more clearly when with a customer.
Common sense will take you public speaking business all tgheway.
Cheers
April 17, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Karnautrahl
Darren, thank you for your input. I’ve not spoken to anyone else working in this field so far, which of course I will need to as I myself am going to need training first before I get going
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