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MindSkills Academy
5 days of inspired personal and professional growth
The week will be a tightly-focused and highly participative training intensive. It is
an advanced programme of stage craft structured to take participants skills and
capabilities to a new level. We aim to ensure all participants acquire the requisite
skills, knowledge and confidence to successfully present MindSkills Workouts.
How is the week structured?
The week-long programme for potential Workout Coaches consists of two parts:
- Accelerated learning, development and skills-transfer (4 days)
- Evaluation (1 day)
This programme will include, how to:
- Sequence Workouts for maximum impact
- Present complex ideas quickly and clearly
- Seamlessly format presentations to optimize learning
- Manage the stage and maintain group rapport
- Use and project voice and body, tempo and rhythm
- Deploy all the senses and embed empowering beliefs
- Understand the impact of verbal and non-verbal language
- Enhance stage presence, gravitas and charisma
- Design and tell compelling stories
- Eliminate stage nerves, fear and anxiety
- Handle skeptics, unbelievers and questions elegantly
- Manage logistics (seating, equipment, charts, etc)
- Structure and influence audience states and energy for best results
- And much more . . .
This week will give you an unprecedented opportunity to enhance your training
versatility, learn different presentation methods and have ample opportunity to
present and receive immediate feedback.
Attendance numbers
To optimize the learning, development and skills-transfer each programme is restricted
to a maximum of 10 candidates.
Hitting the ground running
Candidates with a distinct advantage in being successful will most likely have some
or all of the following characteristics:
- They will have had experience as a ‘soft, interpersonal, personal development
and/or management psychology skills’ presenter, speaker, facilitator, trainer or
coach in private or public sector organisations.
- They will have a strong academic/knowledge background in people stuff – eg.
traditional psychology, psychometrics, OD, formal quality NLP certifications,
and so on.
- The personal characteristics, personality and presence that inspires, builds
confidence and motivates others.
Venues
For independent coaches: held at a near London location
For corporate licensees:
held in-company
Evaluation
Assessment consists of three parts to fully evaluate your capability to deliver
MindSkills Workouts.
- Written: a short written test of knowledge, skills and understanding of
course material covered during the week.
- Presentation: You will be required to deliver 2 different 15 minute
segments of a 90 minute Workout presentation in one or both of the two styles
to your peer group and an approved Workout assessor. One workout topic you will
choose and the other will be chosen by the assessor. You will have plenty of
practice during the week to learn, develop and hone these skills.
- Open Frame: is designed to evaluate the capability to field audience
questions. You will acquire advanced skills for doing this elegantly during the
week.
You will be given full support during the week. You will be encouraged to practice
your presentations with fellow colleagues through the week also. Video’s will be
available for many of the presentations, and all the evaluation sessions. An assessor
will be on hand most of the time to give advice, encouragement and feedback. We really
do want everyone to succeed.
Independent Coaches
There are three levels of certification:
- Master Workout Coach – certified to present any of the Workout topics.
- Workout Coach – certified to present specified Workout topic/s.
- Attendance – did not take, did not score sufficiently well or meet the
required standard in the three stage evaluation. This could be for any number
of reasons. Based on a mutual discussion, candidates can either continue on
their own independent journey with new found skills, if borderline they can
apply to attend a future Academy week (for 50% of the fee), or retake the
evaluation (POA (£/€/US$ fee) only at a future date.
Corporate Workout Coaches
There are three levels of certification:
- Master Workout Coach – certified to present any of the Workout topics.
Particularly relevant to competencies framework matching and dovetailing of
a wide range of behavioural competencies aligned with Workout topics.
- Workout Coach – certified to present a specified Workout topic/s.
- Attendance – did not take, did not score sufficiently well or meet the
required standard in the three stage evaluation. This could be for any number
of reasons. Based on a mutual discussion, between the company sponsor, the
candidate and a MindSkills assessor they can either, 1. choose to work through
a self-development programme (POA (£/€/US$)) and retake the evaluation presenting
to a WorkSkills assessor and work colleagues (POA (£/€/US$)) at a future date.
What it costs and what you get
The fee for the UK Academy is POA (£/€/US$) + Evaluation POA (£/€/US$) fee + VAT. The
fee is payable in advance of attendance. A 50% deposit secures your place, after
which course books, reading, CD’s and other preparation materials will be sent to you
a few weeks in advance of the course. Travel, accommodation and subsistence is for
the account of the attendee.
After enrolment you will receive
- All materials for the week
- Lunch and all refreshments during each day
- An expert Workout Master Coach (David Norman – Workouts designer, innovator
and presenter) to guide you through the week
- An experienced one-on-one personal coach and mentor to resolve any issues
around presenting, learning, knowledge, skills development or confidence with
the material, will be on hand during the week
- Copies of video’s taken of many of your presentations and the evaluation session
- Optional guest presenters on specific skill development
After the course
For the first event (or an early event) each Coach presents they are entitled to a
full feedback and analysis profile by David Norman (a few at random in person, or
by video) is provided as part of the fee.
The next steps
In the first instance we recommend you contact David Norman personally to discuss
your interest and needs.
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