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Practical, skill-building workshops offered face-to-face and online in which participants receive a certificate of completion and Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Facilitating for Excellence Certificate

Master the art of facilitating learning events.

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Powerful facilitation skills are a requirement for any professional. This one-day certificate program provides participants with a variety of proven techniques for facilitating engaging and result-oriented training sessions. Participants will have the opportunity to deliver a practice facilitation session with feedback and coaching from the instructor and peers.

  • Face-to-Face1 day
  • On-SiteFlexible dates & duration

Program Overview

During this one-day workshop you will learn how understanding of adult learning principles and proper practice and preparation are the key to successful facilitation. Participants will learn how to foster learner engagement and enthusiasm, address the needs of all learning styles, leverage effective questioning techniques, and manage participant behaviors to lead impactful sessions.

Learn to:

  • Open every training session with punch.
  • Make the connection between learning objectives and effective facilitation.
  • Incorporate adult learning principles into all sessions.
  • Explain the various learning styles and support learning methods for each.
  • Recognize the importance of facilitation preparation and identify the critical components required in your world.
  • Use the facilitation techniques and approaches from the workshop to improve on-the-job success.

ASTD Certificate Programs are learning events and a certificate is awarded to participants upon successful completion of the program. No test is given and participants are not certified. Certification is a testing event that confirms that skills, knowledge, or competencies have been acquired. Please click here for more information on the ASTD Certification Institute's credential, the Certified Professional in Learning and Performance™ (CPLP™).

Learning Objectives

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Prepare properly for their facilitation.
  • Apply effective techniques to engage all participants.
  • Develop confidence for handling participant disagreements.  
  • Adapt to the various learning styles in the room.
  • Facilitate with true confidence.

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Who Should Attend

This workshop is designed for anyone responsible for facilitating learning events. Professionals from outside the learning and development field are encouraged to attend.

Credits & Attendance

Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

Earn 0.7 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) upon successfully completing this program. Learn More

CPLP© Recertification Points

This program may be eligible for up to 7 CPLP recertification points. Learn more at astd.org/recertification.

HRCI Recertification Credits

This program has been pre-approved for 7 (General) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute.

Attendance Policy

Participation in all originally scheduled days of the program is mandatory in order to receive the certificate of completion and 0.7 CEUs. Participants who miss more than two hours of the entire program will not be eligible to receive the certificate. Participants who fulfill the attendance requirement will receive a certificate at the end of the program.

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What Participants Are Saying

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  • Tracy Marriot

    "The Facilitating for Excellence Certificate program not only gives you a knowledge base, but also provides you a framework in which to use it, as well as hands-on practice. They offer all of this while providing a truly engaging, interactive learning environment.

    I found that ASTD classes/programs are the best quality money can buy."

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    Tracy Marriot

    Tracy Marriot
    Sr HR Business Partner
    Engineered Arresting Systems Corp

    5/5 Average Rating

    "The Facilitating for Excellence Certificate program not only gives you a knowledge base, but also provides you a framework in which to use it, as well as hands-on practice. They offer all of this while providing a truly engaging, interactive learning environment.

    I found that ASTD classes/programs are the best quality money can buy."

Meet Our Facilitators

We've got the best in the industry
  • Julie Patrick

    Julie Patrick

    Julie Patrick is a learning and performance consultant with JP Learning Associates. Julie has been a trainer, facilitator, and instructional designer since 1992. As a former manager of a corporate university, Julie was responsible for new employee orientation, leadership and management, sales, client training, systems, and administrative training programs. She holds numerous certifications, including DDI, AchieveGlobal, and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment, and designing and implementing training and development solutions that help clients achieve their desired business results. Julie also serves as an in-person and online facilitator for ASTD's Creating New Supervisor Training Programs Certificate and Training Certificate Programs. She also wrote the Infolines "Creating Training Manuals" and "Creative Facilitation Techniques for Training." Julie has a bachelor's degree in business administration and a master's degree in organization development.

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    Julie Patrick

    Julie Patrick

    Julie Patrick is a learning and performance consultant with JP Learning Associates. Julie has been a trainer, facilitator, and instructional designer since 1992. As a former manager of a corporate university, Julie was responsible for new employee orientation, leadership and management, sales, client training, systems, and administrative training programs. She holds numerous certifications, including DDI, AchieveGlobal, and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment, and designing and implementing training and development solutions that help clients achieve their desired business results. Julie also serves as an in-person and online facilitator for ASTD's Creating New Supervisor Training Programs Certificate and Training Certificate Programs. She also wrote the Infolines "Creating Training Manuals" and "Creative Facilitation Techniques for Training." Julie has a bachelor's degree in business administration and a master's degree in organization development.

    Facilitates the following:

    Creating New Supervisor Training Programs Certificate| ASTD Master Trainer™ Program| Facilitating for Excellence Certificate| Training Certificate|

    Nadine Martin

    Nadine Martin

    Nadine Martin has had many different aspects to her career including being an automobile insurance adjuster, trial preparation assistant for the Manhattan and Bronx District Attorneys, a rock climbing and backpacking salesperson and a member of the U.S. Women's Judo Team. She has spent the majority of her career in the technology learning field. She also has been the technology training manager for Northeast Utilities (a New England-based utility company),the IS learning manager for LL Bean and the e-learning manager for Bean. During her corporate career she helped to introduce the accelerated learning methodology at both companies as well as help to redesign the way in which learning was done at the company. She is certified in the usage of the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument and has been utilizing technology to deliver learning for most of her career.

    Nadine has bachelor's and master's degrees in education as well as having done post graduate work in counseling. She is currently an independent consultant as well as the supervisor for instructor development for the Eastern Division of the National Ski Patrol.

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    Nadine Martin

    Nadine Martin

    Nadine Martin has had many different aspects to her career including being an automobile insurance adjuster, trial preparation assistant for the Manhattan and Bronx District Attorneys, a rock climbing and backpacking salesperson and a member of the U.S. Women's Judo Team. She has spent the majority of her career in the technology learning field. She also has been the technology training manager for Northeast Utilities (a New England-based utility company),the IS learning manager for LL Bean and the e-learning manager for Bean. During her corporate career she helped to introduce the accelerated learning methodology at both companies as well as help to redesign the way in which learning was done at the company. She is certified in the usage of the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument and has been utilizing technology to deliver learning for most of her career.

    Nadine has bachelor's and master's degrees in education as well as having done post graduate work in counseling. She is currently an independent consultant as well as the supervisor for instructor development for the Eastern Division of the National Ski Patrol.

    Facilitates the following:

    Blended Learning Certificate| Project Management for Learning Professionals Certificate| Facilitating for Excellence Certificate| Training Certificate|

    Halelly Azulay

    Halelly Azulay

    Halelly Azulay is a consultant, facilitator, speaker, and author with 20 years of professional experience in the fields of workplace learning and communication in corporate, government, regulatory, not-for-profit, and academic organizations. She is the author of Employee Development on a Shoestring (ASTD Press, 2012), in which she provides managers and supervisors hands-on tools and techniques for developing employees outside the classroom and on a budget. Azulay is the president of TalentGrow LLC, a consulting company focused on developing leaders and teams to improve the human side of work. She is also past president of the board of directors of the award-winning Metro DC chapter of ASTD where she served in various board leadership roles from 2005 to 2010; talentgrow.com/blog.

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    Halelly Azulay

    Halelly Azulay

    Halelly Azulay is a consultant, facilitator, speaker, and author with 20 years of professional experience in the fields of workplace learning and communication in corporate, government, regulatory, not-for-profit, and academic organizations. She is the author of Employee Development on a Shoestring (ASTD Press, 2012), in which she provides managers and supervisors hands-on tools and techniques for developing employees outside the classroom and on a budget. Azulay is the president of TalentGrow LLC, a consulting company focused on developing leaders and teams to improve the human side of work. She is also past president of the board of directors of the award-winning Metro DC chapter of ASTD where she served in various board leadership roles from 2005 to 2010; talentgrow.com/blog.

    Facilitates the following:

    Facilitating for Excellence Certificate| Consulting Skills Certificate|

  • Lorimer Fauntleroy

    Lorimer Fauntleroy

    Lorimer Fauntleroy is the principal of Pinnacle Performance Partners (P3), based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. P3 is a workplace learning and development company specializing in performance-based learning solutions. P3 assists clients in determining whether the cause of a performance gap is a lack of performer knowledge or skills. When it is, P3 creates a performance-based learning solution.

    Since 2000, P3 has assisted ASTD in various capacities including a number of course redesigns and development, course review and oversight, and course facilitation.

    Organizations for which P3 has provided on-site services since 1998 include Mercury Insurance, Image Point, ExxonMobil, High Point Regional Health System, Lockheed Martin, National Center on Education and the Economy, Ft. Campbell Army Base, Acupowder, The University of Tulsa, Luxotica, United Healthcare, American Express, Alphagraphics, International Truck, and others.

    Lorimer holds a BA degree in History from the University of Richmond and an MS degree in Human Resource Development from the University of Tennessee.

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    Lorimer Fauntleroy

    Lorimer Fauntleroy

    Lorimer Fauntleroy is the principal of Pinnacle Performance Partners (P3), based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. P3 is a workplace learning and development company specializing in performance-based learning solutions. P3 assists clients in determining whether the cause of a performance gap is a lack of performer knowledge or skills. When it is, P3 creates a performance-based learning solution.

    Since 2000, P3 has assisted ASTD in various capacities including a number of course redesigns and development, course review and oversight, and course facilitation.

    Organizations for which P3 has provided on-site services since 1998 include Mercury Insurance, Image Point, ExxonMobil, High Point Regional Health System, Lockheed Martin, National Center on Education and the Economy, Ft. Campbell Army Base, Acupowder, The University of Tulsa, Luxotica, United Healthcare, American Express, Alphagraphics, International Truck, and others.

    Lorimer holds a BA degree in History from the University of Richmond and an MS degree in Human Resource Development from the University of Tennessee.

    Facilitates the following:

    ASTD Master Trainer™ Program| Advanced Designing Learning Certificate| Facilitating for Excellence Certificate| Selecting and Implementing Performance Improvement Solutions Certificate| Designing Learning Certificate| Training Certificate|

    Rebecca Grueneberger

    Rebecca Grueneberger

    Rebecca Grueneberger has more than 25 years experience as a trainer and organization development consultant. She has worked in a variety of settings including health care, telecommunications, academia, and government. Most recently, Rebecca was a senior trainer for the U.S. Senate Office of Education and Training. She is passionate about helping others learn and chooses fun, interactive tools to engage learners and improve their performance on the job. A life-long learner, Rebecca has an MA in education with a concentration in human resource development from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and numerous certifications including the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment and the Career Architect.

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    Rebecca Grueneberger

    Rebecca Grueneberger

    Rebecca Grueneberger has more than 25 years experience as a trainer and organization development consultant. She has worked in a variety of settings including health care, telecommunications, academia, and government. Most recently, Rebecca was a senior trainer for the U.S. Senate Office of Education and Training. She is passionate about helping others learn and chooses fun, interactive tools to engage learners and improve their performance on the job. A life-long learner, Rebecca has an MA in education with a concentration in human resource development from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and numerous certifications including the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment and the Career Architect.

    Facilitates the following:

    Presentation Skills Certificate| Facilitating for Excellence Certificate| Training Certificate|

Dates & Locations

New York, NY

Nov 14, 2013

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Mar 28, 2014

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