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Facilitating Effective Trainings Workshop
An Exploration Into Tactics and Techniques for Facilitating Experiential Learning and Reflective Dialogue
A Train-the-Trainer Workshop Based Off Of The Award-Winning Preparing Leadership Educators book.
Our remarkably powerful and effective train-the-trainer
workshop hosted live, for your organization.
Facilitating Effective Training is an immersive and engaging train-the-trainer workshop that will provide you with the foundational knowledge and skills to facilitate hands-on and dynamic experiential learning activities and reflective dialogue as the core feature of your trainings.
We know that learning and development happens best when participants are engaged in the learning experience. Experiential activities and reflective dialogue provides that hands-on, live opportunity to strategically explore the themes and content of your training.
Facilitating Effective Trainings can be facilitated at your convenience as a 2-hour Workshop, Half-day Retreat, or Full-day experience.
The Facilitating Effective Trainings workshop will assist you in crafting training experiences that enable your participants to:
Access the training material and information
Internalize leadership learning
Apply the learning to their leadership practices effectively
Facilitating Effective Trainings is designed to provide the foundational elements of facilitating trainings for maximum learning - the utilization of experiential learning and reflective dialogue.
Facilitating Effective Trainings can be facilitated within your organization as a 2-hour Workshop, Half-day Retreat, or Full-day Experience. Regardless of the structure, you and your colleagues will review the theoretical foundations of experiential learning and reflective dialogue before participating in immersive experiential learning activities and reflective dialogue together. This is not a boring, yawn-filled, sit-back-and-listen, lecture-style training. We model what we train to illuminate how powerful and essential experiential learning and reflective dialogue is to learning. The longer and more immersive the engagement, the deeper the learning and practice-opportunities for you and your colleagues.
And because Facilitating Effective Trainings is facilitated exclusively for your colleagues, it can serve as an incredible relationship-building experience for your team. Consider this hands-on, engaging workshop for your next professional development opportunity.
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Workshop Facilitator & Master Trainer
Workshop Facilitator & Master Trainer
Founder & Executive Director
Jonathan Kroll, PhD.
Jonathan began his career as a university administrator, focusing on leadership development, community engagement, and reflection initiatives. He has co-founded two leadership training businesses in addition to Leadership Trainer. As a Master Trainer, Jonathan has facilitated hundreds of leadership workshops, retreats, trainings, conference presentations, and classes to thousands of participants across five continents over the last decade.
Formally, Jonathan served as the founding Program Director and an Assistant Teaching Professor for the Professional Leadership Studies program at the University of Rhode Island. He authored the award-winning Preparing Leadership Educators: A Comprehensive Guide to Theories, Practices, and Facilitation Skills, book.
Jonathan earned a PhD from Fielding Graduate University in Leadership with a focus in Group Mentoring. He coaches, consults, authors, teaches, and trains about leadership, mentoring, and training & facilitation.
Contact Jonathan at [email protected].
Jonathan Kroll, PhD.
Leadership Trainer Founder, Executive Director, and Master Trainer
Author of Preparing Leadership Educators
Interested in Facilitating Effective Trainings?
Schedule a time to speak with Leadership Trainer Executive Director, Jonathan Kroll.
What our Participants Have to Say
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A great intro to interactive facilitation! ...This gave me a reinvigorated intentionality for making my trainings engaging and interactive.
Director of Student Involvement, Lynn University
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The session provided a wonderful engaging a space to reevaluate how you think and approach facilitation. It’s refreshing and highly recommended.
Senior Learning Designer, Stellenbosch University
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Everything about the workshop is intentional.... Regardless of your area of expertise, there is tangible information, activities, and strategies that is transferable and easily adaptable to your own work.
Student Affairs educator, University of Texas @ Austin
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It’s a training program that give you the tools you need to create active, engaging training sessions.
Director of TRIO Programs, University of Nebraska
We're proud of working with organizations from diverse sectors
and with people from across the world.
Interested in Facilitating Effective Trainings?
Schedule a time to speak with Leadership Trainer Executive Director, Jonathan Kroll.
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