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Empower Your Team Through Facilitation Excellence
Break down barriers and build facilitation skills for more collaboration, innovation, and efficiency through custom training programs designed for teams big and small.
"If you want to have systemic change across your organization, Voltage Control's hands-on learning experiences will change the way you design and implement meetings on a macro-level. Their purposeful approach will re-engage attention, re-energize teams, and re-define your culture!"
Nick JohnsonSenior Project Manager, Nike Innovation 
For Companies
Facilitation is a Critical Skill to Your Organization’s Success
Your leaders drive retention, productivity, and belonging. Ensure they have the skills for today and the future.
- Fuel Product Innovation and Efficiency Through Cross-Collaboration: The power of cross-collaboration sparks innovation, enhances problem-solving efficiency, increases time to get your products to market, and drives higher employee engagement within your organization.
- Stakeholder Alignment for Swift Decision-Making: Our programs cultivate stakeholder alignment, enabling quicker and more decisive actions, streamlining decision-making processes.
- Build More Confident Leaders Capable of Navigating Conflict and Fostering Trust: Equipped with enhanced facilitation skills, your leaders will have the tools and frameworks to address conflicts head-on, while fostering trust and engagement among your workforce.
Companies We’ve Worked With
For Companies
Corporate Training Program At-a-Glance
Our comprehensive facilitation certification program is aligned with the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) competencies. By the end of this corporate training program, your team members will be able to:
- Identify a spectrum of impactful facilitation methodologies and practices
- Select the best facilitation system for your unique context
- Cultivate a professional leadership identity and reflect on areas of personal facilitation strengths and growth
- Confidently deploy effective meeting management techniques
- Manage stakeholder interaction and expectation
Program AT a Glance
Sample Corporate Facilitation Program
Programs can be facilitated online, in-person, and/or hybrid. All private programs are custom and can be extended or condensed to suit the needs of your organization.
Assessment
Online • ONE-On-ONE INTERVIEWS
We’ll start by working with you to understand your current organizational design and leadership needs. Our initial assessment will help us discover specific target stakeholders, custom learning objectives, and growth opportunities. Using these insights, we’ll design a custom learning program for your team.
With a private corporate training program, your learners will have a consistent and business-relevant experience alongside their peers allowing them to share, integrate, and amplify their growth. The momentum created through these shared learning experiences is further amplified through one-on-one coaching and a private community of practice dedicated to scaling impact across your organization.
Facilitation Foundations
Live Meetings
This synchronous immersive will provide your team members with an introduction to the core competencies and fundamentals of facilitation. Instructors will model the basics of facilitation methods and provide learners with the opportunity to conduct practice sessions with instructor and peer feedback.
Live sessions are held weekly for three hours and are scheduled at your convenience. Students also typically spend three to five hours per week (on average) outside of class sessions for prep and practice.
Facilitation Electives
Video Courses
After completing the Facilitation Foundations course, students will then select two asynchronous elective modules of interest that will allow for further exploration and application in a key facilitation focus area. Learners should allocate about three to five hours a week per month.
Facilitation electives include:
- Magical Meetings
- Design Thinking
- Liberating Structures
- Workshop Design
- New offerings as launched
Facilitation Capstone
Live Meetings
After completing both the Facilitation Foundations and Facilitation Electives Courses, students will complete their certification experience through the Facilitation Capstone Immersive. In this immersive, your team members will create their professional facilitation portfolio, provide artifacts that show competency in key facilitation foundation areas, and create a plan for their leadership growth over the long term.
Live sessions are held weekly for three hours and are scheduled at your convenience. Students also typically spend three to five hours per week (on average) outside of class sessions for prep and practice.
Community of Practice
Online • Live Meetings
Launch a community of practice in the 3 months following core learning to establish a space for ongoing facilitation and leadership growth. Participants will continue to meet bi-weekly and bring specific experiences that surface as they continue to practice their competencies across their work. Facilitators will guide participants in ways to continue to improve in their facilitation as well as build a reflective practice that can be sustained long after the formal program ends.
Required Reading
To help ground the experience, all participants receive a course pack that includes key facilitation texts based on your assessment needs such as: The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker, Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner with Lenny Lind, Catherine Toldi, Sarah Fisk, and Duane Berger, Liberating Structures by Henri Limpanowicz and Keith McCandless, and Rituals for Virtual Meetings by Kürṣat Ӧzenc, PhD and Glenn Fajardo. These materials not only provide a common set of methods and language to ground the work but also can be used as a handy reference long after the certification is over.
Testimonials
"Voltage Control taught us valuable new ways of looking at applying the Design Sprint methodology for larger groups. Google Sprint Masters have now expanded their toolkits which enables them to push their product teams to drive more innovative outcomes across larger sprint teams."
Kai HaleyHead of Google Sprint Master Academy, Google 
"The best thing about Voltage Control is that they set up a virtual learning space that covers every aspect of adult learning. They encompass the principles of adult learning without ever talking about it ... they just do it."
Ron KollerSenior Managing Consultant, IBM, IBM 
"I realized my entire role is facilitation. I have to do a lot of lateral influencing. So I use these skills even if it is not a super-structured workshop. I can’t believe every college student doesn’t have to take a class like this."
Savannah CarlinSenior Product Designer, Chegg Inc. 
"If you are looking to learn facilitation for the first time, level up your own skills, or that of your team, then Voltage Control is a great option. After engaging with Voltage Control we are now confidently moving beyond design thinking."
Robert TaylorVP & Senior Corporate Counsel 
"From inception to execution, Voltage Control met the brief perfectly in the design and structure of our global workshop facilitation program. They took the time to understand the nuances of the objectives, tailoring an approach that was not only comprehensive but also designed to foster productive and engaging sessions and usable outcomes."
Charles HoskinsonChief Executive Officer Founder, IOHK 
"The certification helped me realize that facilitation isn’t about running meetings or putting on a show. It’s about creating environments and experiences that enable people to be themselves and get the most out of each other. Now my impact is so much greater by facilitating others to be more creative, more collaborative, and more productive."
Phil CanningDirector TM Studio, Ally 
"Companies need creative and inclusive solutions that can only be brought forward through leaders that facilitate inclusive and regenerative conversations. If you are looking for a program to learn how to create a space for your team or clients to truly speak up and build collective solutions, then Voltage Control's Facilitation Certification is for you."
Dirk Van OnsemVP Key Sport Emea at Nike Inc., Cohort 5 participant 
"My purpose and approach are both clearer thanks to this experience. I now aim to facilitate groundbreaking discoveries by channeling collective insights and intelligence to achieve outcomes. And, most importantly, I am now guided by a more meaningful question to pursue alongside the teams I serve. And I have Voltage Control to thank for that."
Dom MichaelicExecutive Director, Product Management, JPMC 
"A vital leadership lesson emerged for me during certification. Leaders aren’t just solution providers; they can also be questioners, listeners, and facilitators."
Ma. Roselle JunioGlobal Head of Quality, Training and Optimization for Audit and Capture services, SAP 
“Voltage Control's program taught my how to ask the big WHY. This approach has become my new compass and my new lens, informing my design for every workshop and meeting.”
Eddie JjembaUrban Resilience Officer, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre 
"We weren’t just learning techniques. We were learning to wield them with intent, to understand the why behind the what. It broke down my preconceived notions and built them back up, fortified with purpose and precision."
JJ RogersProduct Design Director, Watermark 
"Even as an experienced, fulltime facilitator, I found deep and lasting value in Voltage Control's Facilitation Certification. For me, it was a long-overdue investment in myself and the business. Through well-paced live sessions and a great reading list, I was able to update and reground on the latest theory, get inspired and renewed with new ideas and methods, connect with other learners in the field, and ultimately sharpen the way I talk about my work. I feel more confident and credible."
Shannon HartPerformance Consultant and Learning Strategist, Shell 
“The Voltage Control Facilitation certificate is one of the most impactful training programs I've experienced. I was able to immediately apply the acquired skills into facilitating sessions with diverse cross-functional teams and leadership within my organization. It has undoubtedly been a game-changer, elevating my facilitation skills to new heights and contributing immensely to my professional growth.”
Aiza HasibDesign Research Lead , Cisco 
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