PROBE Facilitator Training Course, Geneva Switzerland
By the end of this two-day course, participants will be familiar with the PROBE methodology, and will have practiced facilitating PROBE assessments. They will be equipped to use the new ‘Lite’ version of PSB, and the longer-established ‘Advanced’ version. They will have had previews of the forthcoming ‘Standard’ version, which will complete the PSB suite; and the ‘Core’ PROBE tool
which will provide a more general business assessment, incorporating sustainability as an integral component of a broad vision of ‘business excellence’.
Venue: Geneva (please see contact information at bottom)
Course content:
- PROBE background, aims & benefits, methodology
- PROBE and the FSSD
- Facilitation, Analysis & Feedback exercises
- Reporting, Action Planning & Quality Assurance
- Facilitator’s Documentation Kit & Software Features
- Integration with your approaches to client support
- Marketing and deployment – what will work for you?
- Review and Next Steps
Participant profile
- Experienced business advisor
- Background in facilitating/leading groups
- Good analytical/systems thinking skills
- Laptop running Windows XP, Vista or 7 – please bring it to the training course!
- Detailed skills/experience/knowledge profile available; please provide CV in advance
- Broad familiarity with sustainability issues is helpful, but support to broaden knowledge can be provided
- Knowledge of Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (‘The Natural Step Framework’) is required
- – 3 hour eLearning module can be provided as pre-course prep if you are not familiar with FSSD; further support signposted as appropriate
Course fee
1,500 CHF includes:
- Facilitator’s Documentation Kit & Software
- 2 pre-paid PROBE uses worth 1’300 CHF
- Links with PROBE facilitators worldwide
- Coaching & software support
- Pre-course FSSD eLearning license
- Further PROBE uses available under pay-as-you-go or corporate licence arrangements
For more information, please visit www.comparisonintl.com or contact Stanley Nyoni at + 41 79 410 48 75 or by e-mail at stanley.nyoni@thenaturalstep.org.