Training and Facilitation skills

4 Feb, 2025

Apply for the new training on facilitation and training skills:

IFRC Surge Learning team offers a new training on facilitation and training skills:

Train. Assess. Facilitate. (TAF) is a 5 day long face-to-face training course for trainers and facilitators.

This training is for you if:

If you are regularly asked to facilitate a webinar, a training session, a briefing or any other learning event;
You learned facilitation by doing, but would love to dive deeper and form a solid theoretical foundation;
You are curious about how to make the learning experience engaging, relevant and fun, while keeping the focus on job skills (or maybe it doesn’t have to be fun?);
You feel you lack confidence using interactive methodologies and learner-centered approach;
You are unsure how to approach designing a new course (no matter if it’s a 1-hour webinar or a weeklong training);
You want your audience to enjoy your training event and achieve learning goals;
You are wondering how to assess competencies in a structured and objective manner;
You want to practice your facilitation skills in a safe space and receive feedback;
You want to become a better trainer and professionalize your training skills.

The training curriculum is based on solid academic research, neuroscience and andragogy bringing structure and evidence-base to the art of teaching.

Agenda:

DAY 1

Facilitating Learner-Centered Training:

Feel more confident facilitating engaging training events and managing a classroom.

DAY 2

Designing Job-Focused Training Courses:

Make your course sharp, to the point and relevant to the target audience and their job requirements.

DAY 3

Maximizing Learners’ Attention and Memory:

Apply recent research evidence from neuroscience to your training.

Designing & Delivering Learning Activities:

Develop and facilitate activities that serve the purpose.

DAY 4

Managing the classroom. Evaluating your training:

Feel confident dealing with difficult behaviors. Make sure you measure the right things.

DAY 5

Assessing performance

Practice assessing whether your training participants possess needed competencies.

EVERY DAY

Practice

Bring your session materials, improve them throughout the training, practice delivery and receive feedback.

Selection criteria:

Individuals must be a staff member, volunteer or registered member of a National Society, IFRC or ICRC.
Fluent (at least upper intermediate level) in both written and spoken English (additional movement languages are an advantage).
Experience in supporting at least one training event as lead or co-facilitator in the past 3 years.
Individuals whose job requires them to train others in one way or another (preference will be given to those who are scheduled to deliver training events in the next 6 months).
Individuals who are required to develop training materials (an advantage)
Motivation to improve training practices within the Movement and to become a better trainer.

What our students said about the course:

“I’ll never organise a training the same way again after all that I’ve learned here this week. Thank you for your time, expertise and energy!”
“It covered all the training curve from design to facilitation and evaluation/assessment. I feel I now have a structured overview.”
“I really enjoyed this training and felt like I learned a lot of very practical things, many of which I will immediately put to use in both my professional and personal lives.”
“I particularly appreciated how the content can be applied even to short presentations/learning moments.”

How to apply:

The dates for the TAF training are published in the Training Calendar. The next scheduled cohorts are:

To apply for the training, please fill in the application form by February 16th. The training has 14 seats available.

Participation fee: 950 CHF. Discounts to be discussed on an individual basis.

For more information, please contact surge.learning@ifrc.org