Certification
Certified on the methodology, examined on it, and verified running it.
A self-paced certification for coaches and facilitators: seven modules on the instrument and the craft, a 25-question exam, and a practicum you complete by taking a real team through a full run. $1,295, once.
The syllabus
About five hours of study, then the exam, then a practicum that takes as long as a real engagement takes. Module content lives in the product with your seat; this is the whole of it, with nothing held back for an upsell.
1. The category and the evidence~35 min
Why the instrument is peer-rated, what the research actually supports, what the incumbent assessments claim versus what their own technical reports show, and the three classes of claim you will be expected to keep apart in front of a client.
2. The instrument~40 min
The four layers of the item bank — peer behavior dimensions, team climate scales, nominations, and the self module — how items are anchored and time-bounded, what reverse keying and referent shift mean in practice, and the versioning rule that makes results comparable across waves.
3. Method and measurement~45 min
The rater arithmetic behind every threshold, what agreement statistics decide, why results are suppressed below three raters, what anonymity can and cannot promise, the Social Relations Model in one page, and how to talk about change without lying with arrows.
4. Running an engagement~35 min
The full lifecycle of a team run — roster, wave, invitations, close, score, review, release — what each stage needs from you, the craft of getting responses in, cadence across waves, and when the right product is an org-wide engagement cycle instead of a team run.
5. The facilitator craft~45 min
What being the named facilitator unlocks and obliges: the release gate, reading the rater-behavior signals, the confidential channel, running the generated debrief, holding a hard room, and what to do when a debrief goes badly.
6. Ethics and boundaries~35 min
The developmental–evaluative wall and why it is structural, exactly who can see what, the consent and data-protection ground rules, the claims discipline in front of a client, and where the instrument's competence ends.
7. The practice~30 min
Positioning against the incumbents without overclaiming, the economics of running Facets in a paid practice, scoping single teams versus org cycles, the multi-client limits as they stand today, and the conversations that win or lose an engagement.
8. The practicuminstructions
The practical requirement: run one real team through a complete wave as its named facilitator. What qualifies, how it is verified automatically, and what gets recorded on your credential.
What the purchase includes, and what the credential earns
The purchase includes the course, the exam, and 6 team-run credits — enough to practice with, and the practicum consumes one. The earned credential adds three things: the certified-practitioner rate on engagement cycles (25% off list), a public verification page at an unguessable address you can put on a proposal, and an optional listing in the practitioner directory — opt-in, self-authored, removable by you at any time.
And one thing on purpose: nothing else. Nothing in the product is or will be locked behind it. Facilitator surfaces come with being named a facilitator; the instrument is published for anyone to inspect. The credential certifies you, not your access.
The rules, stated in advance
The exam
25 questions drawn from a larger bank across all 7 content modules; 20 correct passes. Retakes are unlimited with a 24-hour wait after a miss, each from a fresh draw. Auto-graded, score and per-module breakdown returned, answer keys never.
The practicum
Run one real team through a complete wave as its named facilitator: at least 3 raters other than you submitting, and the release decision made by you. Verified automatically against what the product recorded, and the credential stores that evidence — identifiers and counts, never your client’s content. A completed Leadership 360 you facilitated qualifies the same way.
No expiry
The credential does not expire and there is no re-accreditation fee. It permanently records the instrument version you certified on; when the version moves, a free delta module covers what changed.
Revocation
A refunded purchase or a fabricated practicum revokes the credential. Revocation is visible: the verification page says revoked rather than pretending the credential never existed.
The honest part
The course teaches the same claims discipline the website practices, so it would be strange to break it here. The instrument has not been through a psychometric pilot, and no study shows that using it improves team performance — what is validated is the research the design rests on, and what the certification certifies is that you know the method, passed an exam on it, and ran it for real under the product’s own record-keeping. That is what the credential page will say, because that is what it is.