What Is a Facilitator Certification?

Nadzrin has been teaching Professional WorkSkills in the fields of knowledge management, interpersonal skills and leadership development successfully to international audiences since 2006. (Don’t know Nadzrin? Visit: www.nadzrin.com)

Now, he wants to transition away from the classroom into a consulting role by 2027. To ensure his workshops can continue delivering value, he is certifying facilitators to be able to run them independently.

This means no hidden, annual or must-renew licensing fees aside from the one-off published price and no remote controlling. You will own the course after you complete the certification. You may even change the materials and title to suit your client offerings.

You will receive a PWS Facilitator digital badge that you can use on your marketing materials. All he asks is that you do your best to help your participants learn.

What Will I Learn?

Designing Elegant Solutions for Innovation, Growth & Navigation (DESIGN) is a design thinking workshop based on the University of Virginia method pioneered by Prof Jeanne Liedtkas 4-phase process: What Is?, What If?, What Wows? and What Works?

You will undergo the 2 day workshop as a participant to feel the intended impact followed by 2 hours of facilitator unpacking to understand the rationale of each day’s design.

On Day 3, you will learn the EnSync Learning Experience Design methodology to ensure that you can make necessary design changes to the workshop and still create positive impact.

There are 6 modules you will experience and learn to teachback on Day 3 to prove that you can deliver them competently and confidently:

1. Designer Mindset

2. Analysing Value

3. Seeing Possibilities

4. Developing Concepts

5. Reality Testing

6. World Changing

DESIGN Modules

Module 1: Designing Mindsets
Adopt a versatile mindset and apply analytical, critical, creative and lateral thinking to spark and develop elegant solutions for complex world issues that require logistics and empathy.
Tools: Journey Mapping

Module 2: Analysing Value
Analyse the value of a problem and identify its component problems that contribute to its complexity.
Tools: Value Chain Analysis, PDRM: Process, Decision, Relationship, Motivation

Module 3: Seeing Possibilities
Quickly and freely generate radical out-of-the-box solutions to pitch towards solving complex problems.
Tools: Brainstorming, SCAMPER

Module 4: Developing Concepts
Develop a chosen concept that best solves all aspects of a problem by adding deeper details and functionalities.
Tools: PDRM, Rapid Prototyping

Module 5: Reality Testing
Test the validity and robustness solutions in a learning launch.
Tools: Learning Launch, Peer Review

Module 6: World Changing
Critically analyse options without emotional noise and justify a choice based on weighted analysis.
Tools: Decision Tree