ATD Master Performance Consultant™ Program

Get to know your peers and become familiar with the course structure. You will discuss the role of a performance consultant, review key concepts related to HPI, and receive an introduction to ATD's Performance Consulting Model and Performance Consulting Framework. You’ll review the case study and select a topic for your final project.

During this week, you’ll spend approximately two and a half flexible hours online, on the days and times of your choosing. You’ll also attend a 90-minute facilitator-led live online session.

Get started with the first phase of the ATD Performance Consulting Model: Assess the Need. Key topics for the week include assessing business needs, gaining client alignment and commitment, building client relationships, and starting up a project. You’ll submit your first deliverable for your final project by the end of the week.

During this week, you’ll spend approximately two and a half flexible hours online, on the days and times of your choosing.

Work through the second phase of ATD’s Performance Consulting Model: Understand the Issue, which will help you identify and interview key performers and define outcomes. You’ll apply the first two steps of the Performance Consulting Framework when analyzing the case study and preparing for your final project.

During this week, you’ll spend approximately two and a half flexible hours online on the days and times of your choosing. You will also attend a 90-minute facilitator-led live online session.

Continue working in the second phase of the Model, Understand the Issue. Important topics include reviewing performance gaps, analyzing key work processes, defining tasks, interviewing for key work processes, and conducting structured observations.

By the end of the week, you’ll submit the second deliverable of your final project.

During this week, you’ll spend approximately two and a half flexible hours online, on the days and times of your choosing.

Focus on the third phase of the model: Present Findings and Interpretation. Discuss how to review data and formulate a hypothesis based on your findings, test your hypothesis, consolidate and refine your data set, select and prioritize solutions, and confirm an influence hypothesis.

During this week, you’ll spend approximately two flexible hours online, on the days and times of your choosing. You’ll also attend a 90-minute facilitator-led live online session.

• Assess current strengths in key performance consulting competency areas and roles (e.g., expert, advisor, coach, facilitator, and more) and identify opportunities for ongoing improvement.

• Apply ATD’s Performance Consulting Framework (e.g., ethical guidelines, critical skills, consulting competency areas, process, methodology, tools, relationship management, and specializations ) to enhance your ability to improve clients’ individual, team, or organizational performance.

• Establish and manage a trusting relationship with the client and key stakeholders during an engagement and beyond.

• Use the Performance DNA Methodology and tools to gain client alignment and commitment, capture goals and performance gaps, identify key performers, analyze human performance, recognize positive and negative influences on performance, and document findings.

• Use effective HPI data analysis, consolidation, and decision-making methods to derive defensible workplace performance findings, reveal trends and patterns of key performance, and make recommendations.

• Use effective presentation techniques to report findings and recommendations and gain agreement from decision makers to move forward.

• Select and design the most appropriate solutions that align with recommendations, close performance gaps, have a high probability of success, and meet or exceed the client’s originally stated needs and business goal(s).

• Lead, align with, or advise others on planning and implementing solutions that meet client requirements.

• Lead, align with, or advise others in evaluating and measuring the success and impact of solutions on original client business goals.

• Make a bigger impact in your role and elevate your status as a TD professional by learning the techniques and tools of a master performance consultant.

• Access ATD’s Performance Consulting Model and Performance Consulting Framework, a step-by-step guide that takes you through the performance consulting process from beginning to end.

• Gain access to tools, resources, and templates to use on the job.

• Receive personalized feedback from your facilitator and peers.

• Earn the industry-recognized ATD Master Performance Consultant designation and digital badge.

• Accelerate your pathway toward achieving the Associate Professional in Talent Development (APTD®) or Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD®) certification.

• Learn research-based best practices from across the Talent Development Capability Model to elevate your instructional design skills.

• Engage in a flexible around-your-schedule program via ATD’s online learning platform. Attend four virtual facilitator-led sessions throughout the program, in weeks 1, 3, 5, and 7.

• Benefit from the role- modeling, wisdom, and guidance of an ATD expert facilitator.

• Learn with and from a group of peers through application-based discussions and reflections.

• Personalize your Master Performance Consultant journey by assessing your current skills, taking a deep dive into content most relevant to you, and demonstrating success with a multi-part real-world project.

Elective Course Offering

To support ongoing professional development, ATD master program registration includes a complimentary course elective. Take the ATD certificate program of your choice following successful completion of your ATD master program. Exclusions apply.

Learners cannot enroll in the following as their complimentary elective:

• Other ATD master programs

• Essentials of Talent Development Certificate

• Talent Development Executive Certificate

• Applying AI in Learning & Development Certificate

• Training Design & Delivery Certificate

• APTD or CPTD preparation courses and preparation bootcamps

• ATD on-demand courses, including ATDYou and Micro courses

• Fundamentals of Negotiation Skills Workshop

ATD Master Performance Consultant™ Program is offered by the ATD Certification Institute.

The ATD Master Performance Consultant program is designed primarily for experienced learning, talent, and organization development practitioners ready to elevate and validate their skills in performance improvement and consulting. Internal and external business consultants who lead transformation and change initiatives in organizations will find this program especially beneficial.

To ensure you gain the most from this advanced program, you must have:

• At least three years of experience in the consulting profession.

• A solid understanding of and experience in applying consulting principles and processes.

• A strong background in traditional consulting tasks, such as conducting needs assessments, understanding the issue, analyzing available data, presenting findings, and developing and implementing solutions.

Additionally, completion of a foundational ATD certificate program such as the Consulting Skills Certificate, Human Performance Improvement Certificate, or Change Management Certificate is preferred (not required).

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