Certified Virtual Facilitator
Take your virtual workshops, meetings, and presentations to the next level with Knowmium’s Certified Virtual Facilitator program.
Our certification program lets you:
Learn time-tested virtual methods: for over 5 years, Knowmium has run worldwide interactive online programs with a wide variety of class sizes, durations, topics, and troubleshooting. We take the most useful and pack them into this certification program.
Experience a variety of virtual tools: you will be on the learner side and facilitator side of a variety of virtual tools and apps, giving you a 360 view so you can choose the right resources for your future virtual programs.
Practice your methods and get feedback: our certification process gives you chances to facilitate using the tools and your personal style so you get practice, feedback, and confidence. We keep our groups small so you have plenty of time to interact, discuss, and get the answers you need to tailor your own virtual programs.
Delivery Methodology:
Pre-Workshop: Build before we begin. Pre-session and between-session work includes brief readings, surveys/assessments, and personal practice.
In Session: Hands on learning. Our sessions are highly interactive, customized to your level of experience, and practical. What you won’t see: long lectures, overloaded slide decks, and quick jumps from one unlinked activity to another.
Personalized Certification. Your final certification involves your actual facilitation to live participants. It can be achieved through options that suit you best: with our session cohorts, with external participants, or through video samples of your actual facilitation.
Follow-Up Resources. Our catalogue of links and resources is always at your disposal and our facilitators are available for planning, feedback, and suggestions as you move forward.
Read Robert’s LinkedIn article or watch his overview of the program below:
Program Fee and Dates
Fee: 900 USD includes all pre-session engagement, live sessions, certification, and one-on-one planning and troubleshooting
Our schedule caters to the individuals signed up, so let us know your preferred dates and if you need specific arrangements. Time Zones around the globe are welcome.
Content Overview
Pre-session
Self-assessment, readings, and personal introductions
Introduction to virtual platform basics (for those new to virtual sessions)
Module 1 (2-3 hours)
Reviewing fundamentals of facilitation and learning
Hardware, software, and station setup
Testing our unique setups
Virtual presence so we look and sound amazing
Presenting and speaking online
Multitasking and ways we can prevent it
Module 2 (2-3 hours)
Kinds of interactions and activities
Virtual engagement tools and apps
Verbal engagement & moderating
Virtual backgrounds and 2nd camera apps
Visual design suggestions and practices
Finding and creating actionable content
Module 3 (2-3 hours)
Developing new content and modules
Facilitating and moderating activities and discussions
Linking modules and activities for session flow
Offline and post-session activities and suggestions
Experimenting with personal styles and activities
Post-session
Resources, links, and continued learning opportunities as well as personal feedback, suggestions, and planning assistance
Certification (20 minutes)
Adjustable formats for convenience including in-group demos, demos with real-world clients, and video samples
Ready to take your virtual facilitation skills to the next level?
Email Robert at robert@knowmium.com or fill in the contact form below. Download the PDF overview: click here.
Testimonials
The Certified Virtual Facilitator program with Knowmium was an excellent learning experience. The content was highly focused, quickly absorbable, and rich with best-practice insights gained through experience. The program facilitator, Robert, led stimulating interactive live-sessions and fostered a collaborative learning space in which participants were able to share their experiences and exchange ideas about technology tips and tools they use. The certification project was flexibility designed to support participants needs and asynchronous completion. I would highly recommend this program for anyone who wants to push their virtual training, teaching, or facilitation game to the next dimension.
-Jordan Vinikoor, Educational Technology Consultant, University of Connecticut, USA
I've been running webinars and virtual workshops over the past year. One reason I took this course was to find more ways to get my audience more engaged. I loved seeing and using new apps and tools to get people's opinions in new ways. I've started using them in smaller meetings and workshops, too, simply because it's more fun for everyone than just coming off mute and speaking. The other thing I liked about this course was taking my own activity plans and finding new ways to add onto them. I'm able to fit in more content and more feedback to what I had already built, and my participants have noticed the new tools. Enroll in this certification if you want to take your virtual facilitation skills up a notch!
-Renee Conklin, HR Consultant and Executive Coach