The drills begin with teaching the student how to face another person comfortably, even with distractions, since one cannot communicate well if one is shy, nervous or unwilling to simply be there to communicate. Each of these drills builds on the ones before it. Students pair up and progress through each of the drills, mastering one before going on to the next. In doing the drills, the students become aware of poor communication habits or patterns they may have previously developed and they learn to communicate effectively. The next basic skill needed by an auditor or, for that matter, any successful person, is the ability to control things and to direct people and situations.
Control is defined as the ability to start, change and stop something.
One is successful in his life to the degree that he can start or change or stop the things and people within his environment. This skill is learned on the Hubbard Professional Upper Indoc TR Course. This course teaches adroitness in starting, changing and stopping communication and directing other people. One's abilities in this area are thoroughly drilled until proficiency is attained. To some, control may have a bad connotation but that is only due to past failures at controlling things or upsets stemming from times when one was poorly controlled.