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?

Holistic & Adaptive Thinking Skills (HATS) is a thinking workshop that develops the ability to manage emotions that lead to cognitive breakdown in order to think critically and creatively for application in real life situations.

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. Validating Data

2. Assessing Criteria

3. Concluding Decisions

4. Ideating!

5. #Conceptualising

6. Building!

HATS Modules

Module 1: Validating Data
Inspect the filters that cause us to perceive data with bias to question the source, evidence and logic of a statement before accepting it as fact.
Tools: Critical Cycle, Thinking Traps 

Module 2: Assessing Criteria
Analyse and/ or build the theories, models and frameworks that allow us to compare, contrast, classify, categorise and calculate complexity.
Tools: Assessment, Criteria

Module 3: Concluding Decisions
Determine objectives that guide the direction and prioritisation of a decision and how to get a final conclusion in terms of what to know, want, say or do.
Tools: Decision Tree

Module 4: Ideating?
Brainstorm and simulate freely by temporarily removing cognitive filters to generate high quantities of ideas.
Tools: Simulation, Brainstorming

Module 5: #Conceptualising
Develop different concepts from generated ideas to solve a particular problem or meet a unique request
Tools: S.C.A.M.P.E.R.

Module 6: Building!
Create a convincing pitch experience to sell a solution that fulfils all criteria to a problem based on available data.
Tools: Rapid Protoyping