Virtual Facilitator Trainer Certification™
Design and deliver engaging virtual training
Our Virtual Facilitator Trainer Certification (VFTC) course is designed to maximize their virtual training capabilities of trainers and facilitators.
Are you serious about maximizing your virtual training capabilities? Do you want a more rigorous learning experience to ensure that you know how to make online learning more engaging? Can you benefit from professional certification as part of your career development?
The Virtual Facilitator Trainer Certification course may be right for you.
Learn how to:
- Engage learner attention and participation in virtual training
- Design effective online synchronous exercises using the web conference interaction tools
- Design blended training solutions with interactive virtual training exercises
- Describe virtual facilitation best practices
- Increase learning transfer before, during, and after the facilitated online learning session
- Develop and facilitate a 20-minute online learning experience for peers in this course
The VFTC course leads participants through a four-week, hands-on training experience. You will learn how to design and deliver powerful, high impact virtual training enhanced with interactive and engaging activities. The course includes:
- Three synchronous facilitated webinars (4.5 hours)
- Collaborative, self-paced assignments at the NetSpeed Fast Tracks™ website (12 – 20 hours)
- A private coaching session to prepare for each participant's trainback (45 minutes)
- Peer to peer learning through trainback presentations (6 hours)
- A copy of Great Webinars by Cynthia Clay
A NetSpeed Master Trainer provides feedback on your assignments, models effective facilitation practices, and provides detailed feedback on your 20-minute trainback.
See below for delivery options and schedule.
Delivery Options
Private
Schedule virtual workshops delivered by a certified NetSpeed Master Trainer. We collaborate with you to tailor the content of each web workshop to meet your specific needs and objectives. We blend engaging, online synchronous virtual training with collaborative asynchronous online learning.
- Want multiple sessions delivered in your web conference platform? We have got you covered.
- Prefer to have us deliver web workshops on our own platform? We can do that in Zoom, Adobe Connect, Webex, or your preferred web conferencing platform.
- Want to make sure the whole virtual training experience is engaging and collaborative? That is the only way we do it!
If you are looking for a flexible, responsive training partner, NetSpeed Learning wants to work with you.
Public
We deliver six public sessions of the Virtual Facilitator Trainer Certification course every year, making it easy for you to prepare trainers and instructional designers to know how to make virtual training effective. Cost per person: $1600
See below for a schedule of upcoming public VFTC course offerings.
We also offer public offerings of the Virtual Producer Course and Web Conference Essentials™ courses according to demand.
Sign up for the Virtual Facilitator Trainer Certification
Virtual Facilitator Trainer Certification - January 25
Pre-webinar assignments begin on January 3, 2025 at the NetSpeed Fast Tracks web site, with assignments due by the first webinar one week later.
(All times are shown in Eastern time.)
| Session | Topic Covered | Day/Date | Duration | Start Time | End Time |
| 1 | The Virtual Facilitator: Orientation to Web Presentation Skills | Fri 1/10/25 | 90 minutes | 1:00 pm | 2:30 pm |
| 2 | Successful Webinar Training Delivery and Learning Transfer | Tue 1/21/25 | 90 minutes | 6:00 pm | 7:30 pm |
| 3 | From Chalkboard to Keyboard: Repurposing Training for Engaging Web Delivery | Fri 1/24/25 | 90 minutes | 2:00 pm | 3:30 pm |
| 4 | Completing and Facilitating a Design for an Interactive Webinar (Train back Session 1) |
Tue 2/4/25 | 90 minutes | 3:00 pm | 4:30 pm |
The number of additional trainbacks is determined by class size. Scheduled sessions will be confirmed when the course opens. Participants will present in only one session, but will be asked to attend all scheduled trainback sessions, to participate, support their peers, and learn from each other.
From Chalkboard to Keyboard: Transitioning to the Virtual Classroom
The ebook offers tips and insights to help you transfer your training to effective virtual instructor-led training. Full of virtual facilitation best practices, this ebook is a handy resource to help you learn how to make online learning more engaging.
Download Now
