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If you’re uncertain about your path OR want to maximize your chances of career growth, facilitation skills can be a game-changer. 

Take Julie Zhao for example. Julie is the former VP of Product Design at Facebook.

She entered Facebook as an intern and was able to rise up the ranks.

And in her book, The Making of a Manager, she drives home that the core skill that helped her grow wasn’t product design at all.

You guessed it, it was facilitation. 

Facilitation skills can be your secret weapon and a shortcut to rapid growth.

One of the things you learn in Facilitation: by Design is how to make sure you include diverse voices in your collaborations and make sure that each one of those voices is heard and given equal importance. 

Not only does that broaden the scope of your organization, but it also truly reflects the modern world. Having diverse voices from various genders, races, and backgrounds helps you create products and experiences that actually cater to everyone and nip potential product biases right at the bud. 

It’s 2021, everything we do as Creatives is political and impacts billions of people. : by Design is created to help you make sure you navigate the fields of diversity and inclusion with grace.

This is a very real concern. 

But fortunately, it’s also the easiest for us to address! 

While a lot of design teams and companies still operate on ideas that border on old-fashioned, every colleague and superior wants the same things: 

• Efficiency
• Ease in getting impactful work done
• A better collaborative environment

If you’re able to provide all THREE of those to your organization, your colleagues won’t care that you used new methods to get there. 

There might be some bit of resistance at first, but once you prove how valuable your ideas are in increasing collaboration and efficiency, you’ll have no trouble getting through. We also cover tips and tricks for how to shift your team's culture through facilitation! 

Yes, it definitely is. 

One of the things you’ll learn in Facilitation: by Design is how to convince your colleagues to work with you (and each other) more effectively in collaborations. 

Once you get them in the door and actually show them how efficiently designed collaborations can be, getting them back in week after week will be a breeze!

If you're currently an employee, chat with your manager — facilitation skills can save businesses thousands of dollars in a team's time and bad ideas. 

In fact, here is some email copy that others have used:

I'm writing to secure some education budget in order to further my impact on the team with this Facilitation: by Design course. This course has been taught live since 2013 in association with AIGA, and for the first time, is being offered online. They have already trained over 500 design and creative professionals who have used these skills to transform how collaboration works within such organizations as Google, IBM, Airbnb, R/GA, Huge, and Nike. Alumni attest to how these skills have led to higher engagement across functions, greater impact, and more efficient use of everyone's valuable time and energy. 

I am confident that this course can help not only increase my skills but allow me to bring back to the team a clear framework of the six different types of collaborations the course teaches that can be applied to meetings, sprints, workshops, summits, etc. I will learn practical skills in developing agendas, which methods and activities to use when, and how to lead diverse teams through key decisions we need to make to increase velocity. 

If you work for yourself, think about how fast you can earn this cost back once you sell your first Facilitation package! You will make folds more than the cost of a course here with just one contract. 

I’ve used my own experiences in design AND the experiences of hundreds of students who’ve taken this course and who’ve gone on to become master facilitators themselves (check out the testimonials!).

So yes, you will see results.

For our Online trainings, you will receive an email after your purchase with confirmation and access details. 

For Live trainings, you will receive an email confirmation with event details, as well as update emails as the event dates near.

If you do not receive your confirmation, please reach out to [email protected].  

Attendees are responsible for covering the cost of transportation and lodging, as well as evening meals.

Our Online trainings are not refundable or transferable once purchased and initiated. 

Our Live trainings are subject to cancellation or change. Liability is limited to funds remitted for training registration and sponsorship fees.

Your registration constitutes permission to our use of photos, audio and video recording taken of you at the event for promotional and educational purposes in connection with : by Design Workshop's trainings and activities, in corresponding publications and in archives.