NEW COURSE: The Lost Art of Oratory, November 13 - 15

The Lost Art of Oratory: How to Master Group Dynamics and Influence.

I have been asked many, many times to run a “public speaking” course, but I didn’t want to do just another “Presentation Skills” course. I wanted to do something that would make people great public speakers and influencers no matter the situation, whether that is formal (Presentations, chairing meets etc) or informal (team briefings, holding court down the pub).

So, utilising NLP skills and principles as well as modelling great speakers, actors and presenters including Barack Obama, Socrates, Martin Luther King and using ancient rules of oratory and public speaking from the Roman Empire and Ancient Greece this is a unique opportunity to learn the skills and strategies to become an exceptional public speaker.

You Will Learn:

• To understand how people understand and communicate
• Essential communication and rapport building techniques
• How to control your mental state so you are always in the right frame of mind.
• A strategy to talk for as long as you need or want without the need of notes.
• How to spontaneous to do a talk without the need of preparation.

You make approximately 6 short talks, which will be filmed and you will be given a copy of the talks on DVD so you can see for yourself the improvement that you have made!

Your Investment: £395 + VAT

Location: Birmingham, UK

For more details and to book, please click here

Matt

Tags: nlp practitioner training, NLP, public speaking, presentation skills

A Quick Update

Hello, sorry not posted for awhile. I have been busy running NLP trainings and doing lots of bits and bobs behind the scenes.

I will return to the blog this week with a regular weekly post plus adhoc posts as and when things crop up.

After being on this blog for nearly 4 years I am looking at moving it to a Wordpress blog on my own hosting. The reason for this is mainly technical and give me more freedom to design the blog how I would like it and give me better opportunities to promote it and increase readership. When it moves I will keep you informed and let you know how it goes.

Speak to you soon
Matt

Can You Help Me?

As I said in the last newsletter, I am currently going through a process of restructuring my NLP trainings and would love to hear your thoughts about NLP training; how you found the training your undertook went, what made you choose the NLP trainer that you did and what you would be looking for in future trainings.

The sort of information I am looking for is:

If you have trained in NLP

• What made you choose the training that you did?
• Did you get what you wanted from it?
• Would you train with that company again? Why (or why not!)?
• What 3 things would have improved it?

If you haven't trained yet

• Why haven't you done any training yet?
• What would convince you to train with a company?
• What top 3 things are most important to you in a training?

Further training

• Have you undertaken any further training?
• If so, what was it and what made you choose it?
• What sort of future trainings would you be interested in?
• What would convince you to train with a company?

Any other information that you think would be useful?

I would be very grateful if you could contact me your thoughts so I can offer the best NLP training that I can.

As a bit of an incentive, all responses I receive before 1st May will be entered into a prize draw to win a copy of "The Marshall University Tapes" by Richard Bandler, worth £124.99.

I look forward to hearing from you.
Matt

Tags: nlp training

Normal Service will resume soon...

My apologies for not updating this blog properly for the last few weeks, I have been very busy running trainings and doing some changes behind the scenes.

I have a few more trainings coming up over the next few weeks, but will hopefully get some entries written as I go along and then get back to writing more regularly when I have finished them.

Matt

Upcoming Trainings

April 24-25 Business Builder Master Class

May 02-06 NLP Practitioner Training

May 08-11 NLP Master Practitioner Module 1
May 15-18 NLP Master Practitioner Module 2

Upcoming Trainings in May

Hi,

I hope you had a good Easter Break. I know you are probably inundated with emails on your first day back, but I just wanted to keep you up to date with my up coming courses in May.

NLP Practitioner
May 02 – 06
Investment £999 + VAT

I have teamed up with Mark Peters of Balanced Approach (www.balancedapproach.co.uk) on his upcoming NLP Practitioner training running the 2 to 6 May. There are not many places left, so book soon!

For more details and to book please go to:

http://www.mattcaulfield.com/training.aspx?i=58


NLP Master Practitioner

Module 1: May 08 - 11
Module 2: May 15 - 18
Investment: £1499 + VAT

For more details and to book please go here:

http://www.mattcaulfield.com/training.aspx?i=57

Remember: If you are a past trainee you are eligible for my loyalty scheme and only pay £1299 (+ VAT)


SPECIAL OFFER: Book on either of these trainings and receive a complimentary Richard Bandler audio CD (this is an official Society of NLP product).

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me on 0845 3 626277.

Kindest Regards
Matt

Tags: NLP, nlp practitioner training, nlp master practitioner, birmingham

NLP and Practice Builder Newsletter - April 2009

I have just sent out Aprils issue of my NLP and Practice Builder Newsletter.

Here's what's in this month:

1. New Audio Added!
2. Article - NOW is the Best Time!
3. Diary of Events
4. Other Peoples Stuff - "Getting Things Done" by David Allen
5. Society of NLP Product Clearance

If you subscribe to my mailing list you have received the newsletter already, if you don't and would like to receive it, please sign up to my mailing list (fill out the box on the right hand column)

I hope you enjoy and find it useful!
Matt

Tags: NLP, business advice

Internet Marking - The 2 Things to Consider Before you Begin

Right

After a bit of waffle on the last 2 blogs about how to most effectively use the web to promote yourself, this time I am going to get to the point and actually tell you something useful...


As I started to say in the last The number one rule of developing an effective online presence is to NOT RUSH AT IT! Before you even consider your web presence you need to decide what you are doing in your business, the strategy you use online has to reflect 2 things:

1. What you are selling?
Are you selling a service only or are you/do you intend to sell products (hint: you should really be aiming to sell products at some point)? Are you aiming a specific geographical location? Businesses or individuals?

All these will effect the online strategy you have got, so you need to know your target market so you know the most effective (and cost effective) form of online marketing.

If you are aiming to get clients in your local town only, but most of your hits on your site are coming from the USA, it is not being effective, even if you are getting lots of traffic!

As I say in the practice builder handbook, there is no point getting thousands of hits on your website if none convert to sales, it is much better to get only 10 hits but all 10 convert.

You need to have a very well defined idea of your target market and this, as with everything, comes down to research, research, research...

2. The rest of your marketing strategy
Online marketing should only be part of your marketing strategy, you cannot rely on that alone. The rest of your marketing strategy will effect what sort of web presence you need. If you are doing predominantly, word of mouth marketing, or tendering for business contracts you will need a very different website than if you are producing and selling your own products.

A lot of people rush in and get a website set up without really thinking through the above points. Take some time to consider and define your target market and larger marketing strategy so that you will save yourself time and money in the long term.

Matt

Want to learn more?

The next Business Builder Master Class in running on the 25-26 April in the Birmingham, UK. For more details please visit:

http://mattcaulfield.com/training.aspx?i=59