Description:

Virtual Training is commonplace, yet somehow, the skills to perform it well and to create effective results are challenging to master. The Virtual Facilitator Certification offered by Kassy LaBorie Consulting is a hands-on, practical, engaging, quick moving, and highly effective live online program that guides learning professionals to design, develop, and facilitate what learners often call “heroic virtual training experiences!”

This 5-session, 2-hours each, live online certification gives participants the experience of working with and learning directly from Kassy LaBorie, a 25-year virtual training veteran, author, consultant, and globally recognized facilitator and presenter. This special offer is an opportunity to engage with Kassy in the same way she consults with her clients which includes: the synchronous classroom experience, her expertise, the certification, robust handouts, tools, and templates, content from her various books, and an understanding of what it means to be a virtual training hero!

This program has been pre-approved by the ATD Certification Institute to earn points that can be used towards initial eligibility and recertification of the Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD) and Associate Professional in Talent Development (APTD) credentials. 

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Facilitator:

 Kassy LaBorie
Founder and principal consultant at Kassy LaBorie Consulting, LLC

KASSY LABORIE is the founder and principal consultant at Kassy LaBorie Consulting, LLC. She is a professional speaker, author, facilitator, and instructional designer who specializes in virtual engagement for learning and development professionals and business owners who get to use web conferencing technology to connect with people around the globe. She’s known for believing that “being online is certainly equal to, and in some cases, better than, being in-person!”

In her previous role at Dale Carnegie & Associates, she was the director of virtual training services, a corporate consultancy that partnered with organizations to help them develop, design, and develop successful online training strategies. Kassy also served as the product design architect responsible for developing the company’s live online training product and experience, leading a team that built a $4 million dollar business in 4 years.

Kassy is the co-author of Interact and Engage! 75+ Activities for Virtual Training, Meetings, and Webinars (ATD Press, Second Edition, December 2022), and author of Producing Virtual Training, Meetings, and Webinars (ATD Press, January 2021).

See what Kassy is up to next by connecting with her on LinkedIn: 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kassylaborie/ and following her at KassyConsulting.com 

Syllabus:

VIRTUAL FACILITATOR CERTIFICATE

5 online sessions, time spaced, 2-hours each

An immersive skill building experience of engaging online training with practice and coaching. A program delivered entirely live online and time spaced according to your team’s schedules.
Five, 2-hour live online sessions, designed to empower trainers to deliver virtual instructor-led training with confidence! Participants join a live online training world, participate in discussion, both on and offline, practice training online, explore and learn their platform, and create training materials ready for immediate use!

Session 1: Use Your Platform to Deliver Engaging Live Online Training
Introductions, foundation for the program, and a demonstration of a model engaging live online training session delivered in your platform.

• Define and discover engaging online training
• Overcome the challenges to engaging an online audience
• Manage the technical aspects necessary to deliver an effective learning experience

Session 2: Virtual Presentation Skills
Sharpen the presentation skills necessary to masterfully inspire an engaging online event.

• Sound like a radio star, keeping participants engaged
• Say messages with clarity of meaning and annunciation
• Show visuals and screen shares that excite an audience to action

Session 3: Virtual Facilitation Skills
Develop the unique facilitation skills required to ensure learning transfer in an online event.

• Ask insightful questions to inspire thoughtful learning and reflection
• Listen to participant responses and learn to look for meaning even when it cannot be heard
• Coach participants to greater levels of learning and depth of understanding

Session 4: Deliver Live Online, Part A – instructor assigned

Deliver a portion of a live online event for feedback and coaching from the instructor and certificate peers.

• Practice real time delivery of a portion of an assigned live online event
• Receive coaching and feedback
• Create an action plan for future successful delivery of the selected live online event

Session 5: Deliver Live Online, Part B – participant created

Deliver a portion of a live online event for feedback and coaching from the instructor and certificate peers.

• Practice real time delivery of a portion of the participant’s selected live online event
• Receive coaching and feedback
• Create an action plan for future successful delivery of the selected live online event

Certification Programs Include and Assume the Following:

Included

Learn and be coached directly from Kassy LaBorie and receive the following:

• A Participant Manual
• Example facilitator’s slides, slides and other materials which can be used as templates
• A Virtual Platform Checklist
• Coaching in the moment
• An online channel or discussion board using Padlet
• Practice time
• Feedback and action plan development
• Flexibility to adjust the program as the team needs
•  A Virtual Training Hero badge, powered by Credly, is earned which can be shared on your choice of social media platforms, internally and externally

Assumptions/requirements

• All online sessions delivered Zoom, although other platforms are discussed so attendees do not need to always use Zoom at their companies. They only need it for this program. They should download the Zoom Meetings Desktop Client and be up to date. Do not use the mobile application or the web browser version for this certification. https://zoom.us/download
• Participants attend the training from their own computer, their own desk, and their own audio connection.
• Each online session is recorded and made available only to the candidates who participated in the live sessions for 30 days following the completion of the program.
• Each participant has access to login and host their own virtual sessions using the web conferencing platform of their choice (Zoom, Teams, Webex, etc.) to apply the technical learning, and practice on their own in between sessions.
• Participants actively attend and complete assignments to earn the final certification.
• If participants miss classes or request make up sessions, we will work together to determine the due dates and pricing associated with the additional training/coaching sessions required. Please note there is a $250 fee for makeup teach back sessions, which are also a requirement to earn the final certification.

Cancellation, No Show, and Refund Policy

Registrants who need to cancel must do so at least 14 days before the training program date.

• Cancellations made at least 14 days before the workshop will receive a refund minus a 5 percent administrative fee.
• Cancellations made less than 14 days before the training program, will not receive a refund.
• Registrants who do not cancel or transfer within the given timeframe, or do not attend the course, will not receive a refund.

Registration Modifications:

• Registration modifications to indicate a substitute participant must be completed at least 10 days before the training program date.
• Registrants may cancel or modify their registration for the training program (within time frame described above) by contacting email here to complete this transaction.
• To switch a registration to attend a different session date, registrants must contact us at least 10 days before the training program date. Please contact email here to complete this transaction.

Event Cancellation Policy

Kassy LaBorie Consulting, LLC. and L&D Philly reserve the right to cancel or postpone the training program due to unforeseen circumstances. In this event, L&D Philly will refund the program registration fee but is not responsible for any other expenses that may have been incurred as a result, such as logins to technologies or other equipment a registrant may have chosen to purchase.

Description:

You are in the final interview for that position, and you are asked, “What is your experience with coaching?” or “What do you know about the coaching process?” You know just enough to come up with an adequate response, but lacked enough detail to communicate that you really know your stuff.

Or, as you are looking for new opportunities coaching is showing up more and more as a position requirement, coaching is a more and more requested or preferred skill set. Your organization may ask you to include coaching as part of a professional development program and want you to coach participants. Your organization may ask you to hire and manage external credentialed coaches for employees.

Coaching Essentials for Non-Coaches is for individuals who are not credentialed coaches and who want to understand more about coaching, learn and practice some coaching basics, or who manage external coaches and really want to ensure your organization is getting a return on its coaching investment.

Topics include:

• Understanding What Coaching Is and Isn’t

• Coaching as an Organizational Strategy

• Creating the Coaching Environment

• Critical Coaching Skills

• Use of Assessments in Coaching

• Best Practices Working with External Coaches

• And LOTS of practice with coaching skills
  

Join us for this full day certificate program! Lunch included. 

Early bird pricing expires October 16!

Facilitator:

 Dr. Bernadette Costello
Managing Partner for BCC Consulting

Dr. Bernadette Costello is the Managing Partner for BCC Consulting. The foundation of her coaching and consulting practice is “You are Exactly Where You Are Supposed To Be.” Affirming where you are is the first step in any transformation. Transformation is like looking into a labyrinth: a path for discovery, understanding & clarity. One way in & one way out-there are no dead ends. That symbolism expresses Bernadette’s approach to coaching, consulting, learning and the sacred space created with clients to support their journey.

Bernadette has over 25 years of talent development, coaching, consulting, and leadership experience in human resources and talent development in the public, non-profit, and higher education sectors. She is also an adjunct faculty member in the George Mason University’s School of Business and Schar School of Policy and Government. She is certified in several assessment tools which include Myers Briggs, DiSC, EQi, and Appreciation in the Workplace MBA.

Bernadette has served as President for the Metro DC Chapter of the Association of Talent Development (ATD), as Chair of the ATD Leader’s Conference Program Advisory Committee and was a member of ATD’s National Advisors for Chapters. She has served on other professional organizations in leadership and volunteer roles with Virginia CUPA (Colleges and Universities Personnel Association), and the International Personnel Management Association (IPMA). Bernadette received a Bachelor of Social Work from Southern Illinois University, a Masters in Public Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a doctorate in Higher Education from George Mason University. She is an ACC certified coach, an Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner and holds a SHRM-SCP certification.

Event Cancellation Policy

L&D Philly reserves the right to cancel or postpone the training program due to unforeseen circumstances. In this event, L&D Philly will refund the program registration fee but is not responsible for any other expenses that may have been incurred as a result, such as logins to technologies or other equipment a registrant may have chosen to purchase.

Description:

Are you a new instructional designer who is eager to learn the basics of instructional design? If so, this workshop series is for you! Over the course of this 3 part workshop, we will cover the following topics:

• What is instructional design?
• The steps of the instructional design process
• Common instructional design principles
• Connecting learning to business goals
• Writing human-centered learning objectives
• Adult learning theory: creating effective and engaging learning experiences
• Kirkpatrick's model of evaluation

We will also discuss some of the challenges that instructional designers face and how to overcome them. This webinar is a great opportunity to level up your instructional design skills. Whether you are just starting out in your career or you are looking to brush up on your skills, this workshop series is for you!

Through Learning Rebels, participants are eligible for 4.5 APTD/CPTD ATD certification or recertification points. (Learning Rebels will issue certificates for the program)

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Who should attend?

• Beginning to intermediate instructional designers
• Educational professionals who may be transitioning into the field of learning and development, seeking to gain fundamental design skills
• Subject Matter Experts who are now responsible for creating training materials

Facilitator:

 Shannon Tipton
Founder of Learning Rebels®

As an author, international speaker, and workplace learning expert,  fights for learning that sticks. As founder of Learning Rebels®, she fixes training that’s broken, while delivering business results. Known for her Rebellious Rebuilding™ Framework, Shannon’s approach to learning reinforcement invites curiosity into workplace learning. Join her in the fight for learning that sticks and results that matter at learningrebels.com.

Syllabus:

This 3-part virtual learning event will provide you with a solid foundation for how to create effective instructional materials starting with needs analysis and ending with evaluation.

Session #1: Determine the business need for training requests and identify learner needs.

The aim is to understand how to align learning initiatives with broader organizational objectives, ensuring the most efficient use of resources and maximum impact.

Here we will discuss the following topics:

• Discuss techniques to analyze performance gaps, identify skills deficiencies, and explore the link between these gaps and overall business goals.
• Use root cause analysis techniques to determine training needs
• Discover the gap between employees' current skill needs and future needs.

We will also provide you with practical tools and exercises to help you determine the business need for training and identify the learner need in your own organization.

Session #2: Develop strong and human-centered learning outcomes

In this session, we'll delve into the heart of human-centered learning objectives. This approach places the learner's needs, perspectives, and experiences at the forefront of the learning process.

• Examine how to formulate objectives that resonate with learners on a personal level, fostering not just comprehension but also motivation and engagement.
• How to use “knowledge, skill, and attitude (KSA) to inform your learning objective approach.
• Develop learning outcomes that connect with Bloom's Taxonomy and Gagne’s Nine Events of Learning.
• Then, using real-world scenarios, we'll practice crafting objectives that are clear, meaningful, and measurable.

By the end of this session, you'll be equipped with strategies to create human-centered learning objectives that effectively guide your instructional design and, ultimately, lead to more impactful learning outcomes.

Session #3: Evaluate training effectiveness

In this session, we'll dive deep into the Kirkpatrick Model, a widely respected framework for evaluating the effectiveness of training programs. We will explore each of the model's four levels: Reaction, Learning, Behavior, and Results, providing you with a comprehensive understanding of how these components contribute to a full picture of training effectiveness.

• Explain the four levels of the Kirkpatrick Model and describe how each contributes to a comprehensive evaluation of training effectiveness.
• Examine how to collect and interpret data at each level.
• Connect the insights gleaned from the Kirkpatrick Model to organizational objectives, enabling them to demonstrate the value of training initiatives,

By the end of this session, you will have elevated your L&D skills to start making data-driven decisions and continually refine your training programs for maximum impact.

Cancellation, No Show, and Refund Policy

Registrants who need to cancel must do so at least 7 days before the training program date.

• Cancellations made at least 7 days before the workshop will receive a refund minus a 5 percent administrative fee.
• Cancellations made less than 7 days before the training program, will not receive a refund.
• Registrants who do not cancel or transfer within the given timeframe, or do not attend the course, will not receive a refund.

Registration Modifications:

• Registration modifications to indicate a substitute participant must be completed at least 4 days before the training program date.
• Registrants may cancel or modify their registration for the training program (within time frame described above) by contacting info@ldphilly.com to complete this transaction.

Event Cancellation Policy

Learning Rebels® and L&D Philly reserve the right to cancel or postpone the training program due to unforeseen circumstances. In this event, L&D Philly will refund the program registration fee but is not responsible for any other expenses that may have been incurred as a result, such as logins to technologies or other equipment a registrant may have chosen to purchase.