Grow Learn Connect (GLC) is a program for learning and development (L&D) professionals in emerging markets. It offers access to a repository of tools and resources to help L&D professionals grow their businesses and improve their services to MSMEs and other clients. GLC resources include publications, trainer certifications, and capacity-building courses organized around the training project lifecycle: assessing performance needs, designing curricula and learning experiences, and facilitating and supporting learning.
Start your journey with the Foundations of Learning course—it is a prerequisite for all learning experiences on the platform. This course discusses the training lifecycle, how to maximize learning, and ethics for performance and learning professionals.
1. Assessing Performance Needs
This self-paced course teaches participants how to analyze performance gaps and develop strategies to design training or performance improvement solutions that align with organizational needs. Participants will learn to identify the current and desired states of individual or organizational performance in relation to specific business goals, determine the necessary steps to bridge these gaps, clarify any limitations, identify appropriate learning or performance solutions, and create a plan for implementing these solutions.
2. Designing Curricula and Learning Experiences
These courses teach instructional designers and trainers how to create effective, interactive training content that drives behavioral change and achieves program outcomes. Participants will develop a learner persona, learn to collaborate with subject matter experts, design activities that motivate learners, support the transfer of learning, and adapt classroom-based training to a virtual environment. By the end of the course, participants will have developed skills for designing and developing instruction.
Designing Learning
This hybrid course is designed for prospective instructional designers, training managers, trainers, college or university instructors, and subject matter experts tasked with developing a course in their area of expertise. It takes about 11-12 weeks to complete, and the expected commitment is 2-5 hours per week.
Converting Training for OnlineLearning
The Converting Training for Online Learning learning path offers guidance for those faced with the task of converting classroom training to a virtual setting. It explores the options and considerations when moving classroom-based training to the online environment and provides guidance, tools, and tips for making the switch.
3. Facilitating Learning
The Facilitating Learning courses provide trainers with the skills needed for both online and in-person facilitation. By the end of the training, participants will be able to create a conducive learning environment, tailor sessions to meet learners' specific needs, and deliver engaging content. Trainers with significant expertise may be invited to participate in the master trainer certification program, which prepares them to train other trainers.
Facilitating Face-to-Face Learning (FFF), in-person
This learning program equips novice and experienced trainers with face-to-face facilitation skills. The training is conducted offline by IFC-certified master trainers at the time and location specified in the calendar but can be organized on demand. The IFC-LPI TPMA certification may be obtained at the end of the program.
Facilitating Face-to-Face Learning (FFF-O), online
This learning program equips novice and experienced trainers with face-to-face facilitation skills. The training is conducted online by IFC-certified master trainers at the time and location specified in the calendar but can be organized on demand. The IFC-LPI TPMA certification may be obtained at the end of the program.
Facilitating Learning: Online and In-Person
This learning program equips novice and experienced trainers with face-to-face and online facilitation skills. The training is conducted online by IFC-certified master trainers at the time and location specified in the calendar but can be organized on demand. The IFC-LPI TPMA certification may be obtained at the end of the program.
Effective Facilitation
This learning program targets training managers and other specialists who are not trainers. The program is based on the Facilitating Face-to-Face Learning program; however, it is reduced to 2-3 days and does not lead to certification. The training is conducted offline for select clients.
Master Level Certification in FFF Learning
This highly selective learning and certification program is offered to experienced trainers previously certified as IFC-LPI TPMA trainers. It empowers facilitators to deliver Facilitating Learning courses (FFF, FFF-O, FLO, and Effective Facilitation) for adult participants and assess them for the IFC-LPI TPMA trainer certification.
4. Supporting Learning
This self-paced coaching course is designed to equip participants with the skills to create activities and interventions that help learners apply what they have learned in class. By the end of the course, participants will adopt a coaching mindset, learn to use best practice tools, strategies, and techniques to coach others for high impact, uphold ethical standards and integrity in their coaching practices, and identify and overcome coaching roadblocks.