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Online Self-Paced Training & Facilitation

Mastery Course

Facilitate leadership trainings with confidence!

Virtual. Asynchronous. Self-Paced.

Leadership Training & Facilitation Mastery Course

Online, Virtual, Self-Paced Train-the-Trainer Mastery Course

Research indicates that only 10% of what is learned during leadership trainings is retained by participants.

The Leadership Training & Facilitation Mastery Course is a 100% online and self-paced train-the-trainer course created by Leadership Trainer's Certified Master Trainer staff.

Over 12 modules packed with crucial information, tips and tactics, the Mastery Course is designed to prepare you to facilitate trainings that enable your participants to:

  • Access the training material and information

  • Internalize leadership learning

  • Apply the learning to their leadership practices effectively.

A 12-Module Facilitation Mastery Course designed to dramatically enhance your facilitation and trainings.

What you get with the Mastery Course...

The Leadership Training and Facilitation Mastery Course from Leadership Trainer includes not only online content, videos, and training, but also access to leadership training coaching, community, and resources to support your facilitation practice and development.

Once you register for the course, you'll receive:

  • 12-Modules of Master Facilitation Videos
    - Nearly 4 hours of video content in bite-sized chunks

  • 12-Module Master Course Workbook
    - 140+ pages of content presented in an engaging fashion

  • Reflection Questions and Activities
    - Purposefully crafted to enhance your learning

  • Leadership Training Coaching
    - A 1:1 session with Master Trainer and Course Creator, Jonathan Kroll, PhD.

  • Monthly Jam Sessions
    - Monthly virtual group sessions covering leadership facilitation topics

  • PDF-Downloadable Resources
    - A trifecta of resources including:
    • 90 Ice-Breaker Questions for Meaning & Depth
    • 18 Go-to Reflective Dialogue Questions
    • Training Preparation Checklist

  • Access to our Private Facebook Group
    - A robust, supportive community of practitioners

Register now and get the Mastery Course - only $390 for everything above!

Course Modules & Content

This self-paced online Mastery Course explores foundational training & facilitation theory, tactics & techniques for engaging participants, a proven framework for designing consistently high-impact trainings, and promising practices for training management - over 12 modules.

The Online Mastery Course covers:

Training & Facilitation Foundations:

MODULE 1

Leadership Training 101

  • What is leadership training?

  • Why is leadership training important?

MODULE 2

Leadership Trainers

  • Who are leadership trainers?

  • Why is identity exploration and development essential for leadership trainers?

MODULE 3

Leadership Training Theory & Practices

  • What has been the trajectory of leadership research and scholarship?

  • Why is it important for leadership trainers to have a strong knowledge base in leadership theory and healthy leadership habits?

MODULE 4

Leadership Training & Facilitation Pedagogy

  • What is leadership training?

  • Why is leadership training important?

The 'Training Story' Framework for Consistently Facilitating High-Impact Trainings

MODULE 5

Crafting a Training Story: Exposition

  • How do we best prepare for leadership trainings?

  • How de we intentionally open a training?

MODULE 6

Crafting a Training Story: Rising Action

  • How do we craft a training theme that has resonance with our participants?

  • How do we share our training message with dynamism?

MODULE 7

Crafting a Training Story: Apex

  • What is experiential learning?

  • How do we facilitate experiential learning activities?

MODULE 8

Crafting a Training Story: Falling Action

  • What is reflective dialogue?

  • How do we host engaging reflective dialogue?

MODULE 9

Crafting a Training Story: Resolution

  • How do we close a training with intention?

  • How do we ensure participants are able able to access, internalize, and then apply their leadership learning beyond the training bubble?

Leadership Training & Facilitation Promising-Practices:

MODULE 10

Leadership Training Management

  • How do we effectively manage time, obstacles, and participants as leadership trainers?

  • Why is training management as essential - and often forgotten practice - of leadership trainers?

MODULE 11

Leadership Trainer Presence & Communication

  • How do we dynamically present ourselves and clearly articulate each aspect of the training?

  • Why does leadership trainer presence and communication hold significant weight for our trainings?

MODULE 12

Leadership Trainer Resources

  • How do we continue perfecting our practice?

  • Why is it essential that leadership trainers pursue a life-long journey to enhance their practice?

Course Creator and 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 a 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, Master Trainer

Author of Preparing Leadership Educators

Still Have Questions?

Schedule a time to speak with Leadership Trainer Executive Director and Mastery Course creator, Jonathan Kroll, PhD.

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