ATD Master Trainer® Program

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

• Diagnose your current ability in delivering training with the ATD Master Trainer self-assessment tool, the Learning Prioritization Inventory

• Demonstrate the ATD essential skills in delivering training, including preparation, creating a positive learning climate, facilitating learning, managing challenges, and evaluating learning.

• Select questions to use when conducting a needs assessment to determine the need for training.

• Apply adult learning principles and cognitive learning theory.

• Describe various models of instructional design (ID).

• Convey measurable outcome-based learning objectives.

• Plan and prepare for conducting a consultative needs analysis conversation.

• Identify best practices for maintaining and enforcing organizational standards.

• Apply decision-making models to a scenario.

• Prepare for a training session by sequencing facilitation.

• Select methods to address learner motivation.

• Define types of delivery media, including facilitating virtual training.

• Identify best practices in learning technology.

• Recall copyright guidelines for use of creative work.

• Create stories, examples, and analogies to connect with participant needs.

• Identify best practices in co-facilitation.

• Create a culturally aware and inclusive learning environment.

• Facilitate learning using effective questioning techniques and feedback methods.

• Apply relevant solutions to overcome challenges in the classroom.

• Identify assessment techniques to ensure learning outcomes.

• Describe the purpose of coaching.

• Evaluate training to align to business outcomes.

• Analyze and evaluate training delivery skills through a detailed assessment review.

• Develop and demonstrate mastery of advanced training and facilitation techniques through multiple practice deliveries, including individualized feedback and analysis.

• Gain access to practical course materials, including tools, resources, and templates, to use on the job.

• Receive personalized feedback from your facilitator and peers to advance your professional growth as a master facilitator.

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

• Accelerate your pathway toward achieving the APTD or CPTD Certification.

• Learn research-based best practices from across the Talent Development Capability Model to elevate your training and facilitation skills.

• Engage in a flexible around-your-schedule program via ATD’s online learning platform and facilitator-led sessions.

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

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

• Personalize your Master Trainer journey by assessing your current facilitation skills, adapting scenarios to your context, and demonstrating success with advanced skills practice opportunities.

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

ATD Master Trainer® Program is offered by the ATD Certification Institute.

Experienced trainers will benefit from individualized coaching, peer discussions, and exposure to up-to-date practices that enhance both the art and science of facilitation. The program also includes assessment components, such as delivering a recorded facilitation session with self-analysis, and offers access to tools, resources, and templates for ongoing professional use.

Experienced professionals ready to elevate their skills and demonstrate mastery in training delivery and facilitation skills. Roles may include professional trainers, facilitators, training consultants, training officers, corporate trainers, faculty developers, and managers and/or directors of learning and development.

Those with less experience looking to build new skills in in-person and virtual facilitation should consider ATD’s foundational courses: Training & Facilitation Certificate or Virtual Training & Facilitation Certificate.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

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

• Have a minimum of three years in the training and facilitating profession

• Be knowledgeable about effective training techniques (such as managing participants, responding to learner needs, managing classroom challenges, and creating a positive learning environment) and how to apply them.

• Have experience with developing engaging, learner-centered training solutions.

• Have completed a foundational ATD certificate program such as the ATD Training & Facilitation Certificate (preferred, not required).

This program is designed for professionals who are ready to practice and demonstrate advanced skills in facilitation techniques. When you successfully complete the program, you will earn an industry-recognized designation and join a networked community of advanced practitioners, validating and elevating their professional brand as master facilitators and presenters within the talent development field.

This 8-week program combines a blend of weekly self-directed online learning and instructor-led live sessions, offered either face to face or in the virtual classroom. Completing the self-directed work and attending the instructor-led sessions are required for completion. For specific dates, select the “More Info” link for each offering listed under dates and location.

In addition to an ATD Master Designation, 2.8 CEUs, and a digital badge, participants can accelerate their pathway to APTD or CPTD certification by completing the program, which satisfies the professional development hours required for certification eligibility. Visit the certification website for the full details on eligibility requirements.

This program offers recertification credit toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR through the HR Certification Institute. It is valid for PDCs for SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP, and provides recertification points from the ATD Certification Institute for APTD® and CPTD® credentials.