The "Silent Killer" of Great Presentations: Are You Speaking with Your Eyes Shut? Every speaker has noticed this in others. Maybe, if we’re being honest, we’ve all done it. A speaker is on a roll. They’re halfway through a signature story or a complex data set. ...
The Missing Engine of EQ: Mastering NLP Emotional State Chaining If you were to ask me a specific question about the state of our field today... "Jonathan, what is the single most important Neuro Linguistic Programming skill that is consistently under-taught and...
The NLP Milton Model,What it is, and Why it WorksAn Incomplete Guide onHow to be artfully vague… on purpose(and for good reasons) Originally published on Altfeld.com; updated and expanded for 2026. Jump to: [Presuppositions], [Embedded Commands], [100-sentence...
In NLP there is a reasonably well known "hypnotic induction" called 'the NLP Drug of Choice Induction" or Technique. This tends to be really popular at workshops where mature adults get to safely re-experience things they haven't played with since college...
It really doesn't require any Trials by Fire! There is and will always be a wide range of approaches, to learning any skill you want to acquire. In the case of speaker training, it could be easier than you think to get over a fear of public speaking. I don't care...
Let's explore the impact made by NLP or Hypnosis in Politics. Originally published on Altfeld.com; updated and expanded for 2026. Far more famous people have trained in Ericksonian (indirect) Hypnosis and NLP than you might guess. Certainly far more have strong...
What do we believe makes for an Effective TED or TEDx Talk? A multitude of factors contribute to whether or not a speaker gives a compellingly effective TED or TEDx Talk. Periodically when the mood strikes, I'll post a talk with a review of how well (or not?) any...
Planning on taking a Speakers course? Keep this in mind: Negative reinforcement does NOT work! Many speakers training groups/courses have training methods that are riddled throughout with negative reinforcement techniques. For example, if a speaker happens to utter...
The Invisible Friction: Mastering Time Distortion for Maximum Speaking Influence. Have you ever watched a brilliant speaker but felt a strange, nagging sense of 'wrongness'? It wasn't their words. It was the fact that they were gesturing to their left when talking...
It can be scary when Speakers freeze up, or lose track of their flow. That fear or concern is justifiable. When you're on stage, you need to be at the top of your game. Clear minded. Clear spoken. Analytical but pragmatic. Effective. Strategic. And flexible... very,...
Deductive vs. Inductive Course Design = Failure vs. Success. Lets explore the massive difference between deductive vs. inductive course-design methods. I hope I never hear about yet another training course whose structure was obviously designed via deductive reasoning...
Knowing vs. Doing; which is more helpful or useful? Many who know me find me a very outspoken critic of 7-day (or shorter) NLP Practitioner courses. I'm especially critical of those which train more than about twenty people at a time. I find such courses to be a...