Most professionals will at some point facilitate workshops, conferences or meetings. Sometimes you might even be designing and implementing a training programme. Where do you start when designing a training programme? How do you keep your group engaged? Transferring skills and knowledge to learn from each other is valuable and rewarding, if done in the right way. After this course, you will become creative in using a variety of training and facilitation methods. You will be able to recognise group dynamics, facilitate a discussion and build consensus during meeting and events.

What will you gain?

Your profile

√ Skills and tools to assess training needs and learning styles

√ Ability to design a training programme

√ Where to you start when designing a training. How to you keep your group engaged.

√ Steps to improve processes and promote full participation

√ Ability to help groups achieve useful meeting and training outcomes

√ Practice in conducting a training and get personal feedback

√ Insights into ways of handling difficult situations

√ Confidence in use of various training methods

You are a professional who wants to achieve meaningful, high-quality results from participative meetings and workshops. Or you have a trainer keen to get the best out of your learners. You are open to learn from feedabck and enhance your competencies.

“Designing a memorable training

programme has many more aspects to it than I imagined. This course has highly boosted my

confidence as a trainer.”

Training and Facilitation Skills Design and facilitate effective trainings, workshops,

conferences or larger meetings for your target groups

Training and Facilitation SkillsDesign and facilitate effective trainings, workshops,

conferences or larger meetings for your target groups

What can you expect?

Contributing to your social impact

Bridging theory and practice

Creating lasting learning effect

Passionate about our work

In this course, we offer you a blended learning trajectory, combining online learning and face-to-face training. During the first four weeks of the course, you learn by long-distance through our online learning platform. This online portion takes about 2-3 hours per week. The face-to-face part comprises 5 days.

CertificateOn completion of the training course and subject to attendance and active participation, MDF Training & Consultancy will award a certificate of completion.

Terms and conditionsRead more about our cancellation policy, visa requirements and insurances on our Frequently Asked Questions page.

Costs€1050 course fee or €1225 inclusive of conference fee. The course fee covers tuition fee, course materials. The course fee does not include the conference package at the training facility (lunch, coffee/tea, water, stationery, internet). Depending on the location additional costs may be charged between 20 - 30 Euro per day.

Dates

Online startweek 1-4

Getting acquainted with each other and the basics of Training and Facilitation Skills, understanding some of the TFS challenges of your colleague-participants and sharing you own challenges and possible case-material.

Face-to-face

Day 1

The dynamics of learning

Day 2

Needs assessment and communication skills

Design and facilitation

Design andevaluation

Day 3 Day 4 Day 5

Mini-training and feedback

The course is offered once per year in Nairobi and Accra.

Accra18 February 2019 Start online learning18 - 22 March Face-to-Face training

And:

Nairobi24 June 2019 Start online learning22 - 26 July Face-to-Face training Have a look at our training calendar for options of following a similar course at one of our offices world-wide.

Training and Facilitation SkillsDesign and facilitate effective trainings, workshops,

conferences or larger meetings for your target groups

Hotel accommodation, dinner, airport pick-up fee, visa and additional costs are not covered in the course fee. Participants are responsible for arranging their own travel plans. Please confirm overseas travel only after you receive confirmation that the course will take place. Visa’s might be required. Please check before travelling. MDF strongly advises to book flexible air tickets in order to avoid cost swhen a course is cancelled.

About MDF

We are a training and consultancy organisation with over 30 years of experience in providing management training, advisory and evaluation services worldwide. We believe in building on existing knowledge and experiences to create long lasting effects.

Our services are diverse but have three things in common – they are driven by new concepts and theories, are practical, and lead to new insights. The tools and approaches we utilise are directly implementable. This way we empower individuals, organisations and networks to increase their positive social impact!

Our experts are involved both in training and consultancy activities to ensure they maintain a close link with day-to-day practices in the field whilst staying up-to-date with the latest concepts. We believe this way of working enriches our training courses and keeps our experts at the forefront of emerging ideas and best practices.

Our learning method

Accomodation and Travel

We design training concepts that best match your objectives and requirements. With your close cooperation, we shape and share responsibility for embedding our training into the broader goals of your organisation and staff. Our objective is to help you realise your goals by offering knowledge, training skills, and encouraging new behaviour. Our programmes appeal to the individual’s personal competencies, capacities and ambitions. Furthermore, we stimulate mutual learning amongst participants by exchanging ideas and sharing experiences, ensuring ample room for open dialogue. Challenging lectures are alternated with practical cases, simulation games and exercises, debating sessions, workshops, partnering, and/or exchanges with experts.

Training and Facilitation SkillsDesign and facilitate effective trainings, workshops,

conferences or larger meetings for your target groups

Michael O. Nkrumah

WWW.MDF.NL/TRAINING

mdfwa@mdf.nl

Lead Trainer, Accra

+233 265646065

Ask the trainer!

Jacinta Kariuki is a Training and Facilitation, Human Resource Management & Learning and Development expert with over sixteen years’ experience. She’s been repsonsible for identifying needs, designing solutions and delivering the same across levels. She’s familliar with several training technologies and was a Reader for Mandela Washington Fellowship, 2015.

Jacinta Kariuki Lead Trainer, Nairobi

+254 728372757mdfesa@mdf.nl

Join us in this course, Training and Facilitation Skills, or any one of our English open entry courses in Nairobi, Accra or Kigali or ask for a custom-made training at a place of your choice. Our French training events are offered at our branch in Goma, DRC Congo and within West Africa.

We Invite You!

This course can be customised to meet your specific needs. Each organisation faces context specific challenges and opportunities. Custom-made training courses are specifically designed to address the objectives and capacities of your organisation. The duration of a custom-made course depends on your requirements, the complexity of the topic and the level and number of participants. They can be conducted in English, Kiswahili, French or Dutch.

Michael O. Nkrumah is an expert in Training Facilitation Skills and Organisational Development with a background in project cycle management, monitoring, evaluation and learning, youth enterprising initiatives. He has been involved in adult learning methodology, participatory processses and youth engagements.

Custom-made

Custom-made training options include: Competency Based Education, Human Resource Management, Change Management, Coaching, Communication Skills, Disability Mainstreaming, Project and Programme Management, Theory of Change, Training of Trainers, Resource Mobilisation, Facilitation Skills, Knowlegde Management, Local Fundraising, among others.

Other Options for Custom-made Training