Advanced Facilitation Skills Certificate

• Openings and Brave Space Creation  

• Setting a Purposeful Foundation

• Influences of Emotion

• Transitioning Into Facilitator Mode

• Group Ownership Techniques

• Beyond Words – Nonverbal Cues

• Exploring and Refining Your Personal Style

• Facilitation Fusion: Skills and Style

Today’s talent development professionals are often expected to do more than just lead learning events. They may be called upon to facilitate stakeholder engagement sessions, guide strategic discussions, deliver presentations, or support organizational change initiatives. Advanced facilitation skills are valuable across a wide range of business settings. Learning those core skills can make you a go-to resource in your organization and raise your profile across business lines and in executive leadership teams.

At the end of this facilitation course, you will be able to: 

• Adopt a facilitation mindset. 

• Assist groups in defining their purpose. 

• Create safe spaces for group collaboration that foster trust and openness. 

• Facilitate groups through a process to solve problems. 

• Pivot facilitation to respond to unexpected events. 

• Advance your talent development career with in-demand facilitation skills recognized across the industry. 

• Facilitate effective meetings and group sessions skillfully to enable problem solving and foster engagement using a successful meeting process.

• Refine your presence and personal facilitation style to lead with greater clarity, authenticity, and confidence.

• Navigate unexpected group dynamics with agility, awareness, and emotional intelligence.

• Deepen your expertise through highly practical, experiential learning and personalized feedback that sharpens both mindset and facilitation techniques.

• Gain access to ATD-exclusive templates and tools to use in your own practice.

• Earn an industry-recognized certificate, continuing education credits, and an ATD digital badge to share with your networks.

This program is intended for experienced facilitators, trainers, and professionals from any industry who want to deepen their facilitation effectiveness, increase their expertise, and tackle more intricate group challenges. Additionally, leadership development practitioners, instructional designers, learning consultants, training managers, and subject matter experts (SMEs) who facilitate learning, lead meetings, guide the meeting process, or conduct strategic planning sessions will find this course valuable.

Additional information to help you prepare for your advanced facilitation course: 

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• Technical requirements: Ensure your tech is ready for the first day of your training course. 

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