Hybrid Experience

A one-of-a-kind, immersive, engaging, hands-on,   trainer preparation experience - with a healthy integration of virtual sessions and a mini on site retreat!

Leadership Trainer's Hybrid Certification Program is a one-of-a-kind, immersive, engaging, hands-on, trainer preparation experience that is guided by four objectives:

(1) Prepare you and your colleagues to facilitate amazing and impactful trainings rooted in dynamic, culturally relevant, and learning-oriented facilitation techniques - specifically ​experiential activities and reflective dialogue;

(2) Engage you and your colleagues in purposeful in critical self-reflection and identity exploration;

(3) Utilize scholarship to advance your and your colleagues' understanding and practice of leadership;

(4) Cultivate a community of leadership trainers and facilitators.

 

By effectively completing Leadership Trainer's Certification Program, you and your colleagues will become knowledgeable, skilled, and dynamic Certified Master Trainers who can facilitate diverse training experiences in which your participants can access the training message and material, internalize their learning, and then apply that learning to their own practice.

Hybrid Experience Benefits

By effectively completing Leadership Trainer's Hybrid Certification Program, you and your team members will become knowledgeable, skilled, and dynamic Certified Master Trainers who can facilitate diverse training experiences and maximize your organization's ROI. The Hybrid experience is a valuable and impactful trainer preparation experience for seven core reasons:

 

(1) Ensures organizational leaders are skilled to perform. With intentional training facilitated by Master Trainers, managers can become savvy leaders who employ a variety of hard and human skills to effectively engage their team members. This empowers these managers to navigate challenges towards goal accomplishment.

 

(2) Enhances organizational agility and effectiveness. Master Trainers, by preparation, design training experiences that enable their participants to internalize learning from trainings and then apply that learning to their practice within the organization. Because this learning is directly and immediately put into practice, individuals throughout the organization are better enabled to make strategic decisions—allowing for greater organizational flexibility and responsiveness to the needs of today's complex workplaces and environments.

 

(3) Expands organizational profitability and well-being. When organizations invest in personnel to become effective Master Trainers, outside trainer needs are reduced and repeat trainings due to ineffective facilitation experiences are eliminated. More, organizational team members become excited about training opportunities and recognize the value of these experiences - rather than actively (or subversively) resisting them.

 

(4) Empowers participants and deepen their levels of organizational engagement. Certified Master Trainer intentionally utilize facilitation tactics and techniques that deepen levels of engagement. This cultivates synergistic relationships and strengthens commitment to the organization.

 

(5) It is cost effective. Hosting the Hybrid Certification Program enables substantially more members of your organizational community to participate - compared to sending your colleagues to an off-site retreat and incurring individual fees, transportation expenses, and other incidental costs.

 

(6) It meets your organization's specific needs. The Hybrid Certification Program is specifically curated with 'Deep Dive' sessions to emphasize the learning and development needs of your team members.

 

(7) It is confidence-raising for organizational leaders. Hosting a Hybrid Certification Program will ensure that at every training touch-point facilitated by your team members, their participants will be immersed in an engaging and dynamic experience in which they can access the training message and material, internalize their learning, and apply that learning to their practice. This will prove to have immediate impact as well as long-lasting implications for learning and leadership development.

Hybrid Experience Schedule

VIRTUAL COMPONENT

3 - 6 Weeks of Digital Engagement

Initial 2-hour Virtual Welcome Retreat

One or Two 90-minute Live Engagements per Week

Optional "Office Hours" for Individualized Coaching

Week 1 (Virtual)

Welcome Retreat: 2-Hours
Program Overview

Learning Outcomes & Expectations

 

Module I: 90-minutes

Exposition

(Preparations & Opening a Training)

Week 2 (Virtual)

Module II: 90-minutes

Rising Action

(Sharing a Training Message)

 

Module III: 90-minutes

Resolution

(Concluding a Training)

Week 3 (Virtual)

Module IV: 90-minutes

Apex

(Facilitating Experiential Learning)

 

Module V: 90-minutes

Falling Action

(Hosting Reflective Dialogue)

ON SITE RETREAT

1.5-Day Retreat or 3 Back-to-Back Half-Day Sessions

Optional "Office Hours" for Individualized Coaching

Block 1 (4-Hours)

Welcome & Community Building

Deep Dive Session

Facilitation Observations

Facilitation Workshop & Practice

Block 1 Closing Reflections

Block 2 (4-Hours)

Deep Dive Session

Facilitation Observations

Facilitation Workshop & Practice

Block 2 Closing Reflections

Block 3 (4-Hours)

Deep Dive Session

Facilitation Observations

Certification Exam Strategy Session

Facilitation Workshop & Practice

Becoming a Master Trainer | Closing

Program Elements

Curated Curriculum

This is the most comprehensive leadership train-the-trainer experience on the market. We specifically craft a curriculum to meet the leadership development and training needs of the participants for each and every Certification Program.

Expert Facilitators

Our expert facilitators are leadership scholars and seasoned professionals who have years of experience training and teaching leadership in diverse contexts and formats. We love leadership! 

Engaged Learning

The Certification Program is a hands-on learning experience. We learn by doing. We have crafted this experience to provide ample opportunities for our participants to actually facilitate experiential learning activities, and host reflective dialogue.

Connected Community

Like all great professional development experiences, this program is an opportunity to cultivate relationships and expand your network of leadership educators passionate about leadership training and development.

Scholarships & Grants

Our 'friendly financial model' makes it easy for you to say, "yes!" Prior to the Certification Program, we offer scholarships!  Following the Certification Program, our graduates are eligible to apply for grants to support their leadership training programs.

Online Resources

In addition to the hands-on learning, each participant has access to an incredible online library of resources including videos, worksheets, and more. 

Year-Round Engagement

The Certification Program experience is just the beginning! We offer year-round opportunities to continue your leadership learning and engagement after becoming a Certified Leadership Trainer. This includes monthly Jam Sessions, a private facebook group, and reduced prices for our other leadership training programs and resources.

Leadership-Training Coaching

Certified Leadership Trainers receive two leadership-training coaching sessions in advance of their first leadership trainings after completing the program. These are designed to ensure you are prepared to shine and deliver exceptional leadership training experiences for your participants.

Training Manual

Every participant receives our 330-page Training Manual that has been specifically written to compliment this program. It includes overviews of leadership theories, leadership practices, and facilitation skills - as well as reflection space, case studies, and more!

What Our Participants Say


“I am critically engaged and asked to reflect along the way where most conferences your only reflection is an assessment at the end.” - Terrian, 2022

“I was never a confident person and [others] could feel that during day 1 and day 2… but now, I absorbed so much knowledge from this experience that I feel it and I know that I can use it every single day.” - Reba, 2019

“This experience has been completely transformational for me.” - Erika, 2019

“This has been quite a life changing experience for me. We learned so much not only about how to train others, but about ourselves and our leadership skills.” - Flor, 2019

“I am leaving more authentic, more self-reflective.” - Aura, 2019

“We live in a climate now where we keep waiting for someone to come in and rescue us… but I think what I’ve learned the most is that I go back to my community and it starts with me.” - Habibah, 2019

“It was fun. It was challenging. We felt because of the challenge the need to rely on each other so there was a lot of connection and networking that happened and I really think that I’m leaving here today with new, strong, long lasting friendships.” - Six, 2019

“Honestly this is the best training I have ever been to.” - Wanda, 2019

“The most meaningful portions of this experience have been the opportunities to put into practice what we’ve been learning. We’ve broken off into small groups and practiced aspects of the narrative training approach. And we’ve gotten feedback from people which has been really valuable.” - Rachel, 2022

“Not only did we leave with hands-on practical resources and experiences but we also built a community.” - Jagan, 2022

“The fact that they’re not just teaching experiential learning but they’re doing that through experiential learning… I can already see how the learning will be different and more enriched by following this method.” - Sarah, 2022

“Coming to this training together allowed me the opportunity to bounce ideas off of my colleague.” - Jamal and Heaven, 2022

“I’ve definitely grown and gotten out of my comfort zone through this program.” - Justin, 2022

“I have grown professionally… looking at facilitation from a different lens. Not as a professor in a classroom being so much more conventional but making a deliberate or intentional decision to facilitate.” - Nicole, 2022

“What was really unique about this experience is that we didn’t just go through the narrative approach to facilitation but we also experienced it with some of our deeper dives… like identity exploration components that helped us see how and who we are in order to apply that to our facilitation.” - Robin, 2022

“I think you’re going to get so much more out of this training than you ever thought you possibly could.” - Erica, 2022

“I wanted to be a part of this because this is such a unique program. There are very few, if any, leadership trainer opportunities. Most of the time we are learning to be great leaders.. but we aren’t learning how to facilitate workshops… the unique skillsets and tools and framework to actually facilitate really good leadership training opportunities.” - Chantelle, 2022 Master Trainer

“The Leadership Trainer Certification Program is so important because these are things that you don’t necessarily naturally have. You’re not born knowing how to train or lead others in many cases. People are more effective if they a strategy or framework to work from. We utilize the narrative framework and guide folks through the different stages of that framework and then give them hands-on tactical skills that they can then apply in their own settings.” - Sarah, 2022 Master Trainer

“With the narrative approach and experiential learning you get to see real-time application of what folks learn and that’s the difference with Leadership Trainer.” Daymyen, 2022 Master Trainer

Hybrid Experience Inclusions

It's More Than Just the Retreat!

  • Curated training curriculum led by expert facilitators.

  • Networking and relationship-building with a community of passionate leadership trainers.

  • Hands-on learning opportunities to experiment with dynamic facilitation techniques.

  • Hard-copy training resources including the Preparing Leadership Educators book.

  • A year-long subscription to our virtual resources including videos and downloadable worksheets.

  • Two training-coaching sessions per participant to prepare them to become Certified Master Trainers.

  • Unlimited Leadership Trainer Jam Sessions with our community of Certified Master Trainers

  • Reduced pricing for other Leadership Trainer programming and resources.

  • Grants to support the leadership training initiatives of Certified Master Trainers!

Prefer to contact a Leadership Trainer directly? Call Jonathan at 609.915.4115 or email him at [email protected]

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