Career Conversations Train the Trainer Online [OPEN]

Gain the skills, license and materials to deliver the AO Career Conversations Programmes

In today’s business world, organisations need to take a new approach to career management. It is no longer realistic for organisations to offer lifetime security to employees. Nor is it realistic to expect lifetime commitment from them. More than ever, the organisation-employee relationship is a partnership. Career Management strategies need to reconcile the differing needs of organisations and employees. Managers and employees need to have meaningful career conversations. And organisations need to create a culture which values learning and professional development.

The Career Conversations Train the Trainer Programme will help you develop the internal capability to do that. It will provide you with the skills, confidence and resources to deliver the Confident Career Conversations Workshop to managers.

This certification programme is specifically designed for trainers, coaches, consultants, managers, HR and Learning professionals who wish to build practical career conversation skills within an organisation.


Benefits of the Career Conversations Train the Trainer Programme

The Career Conversations Train the Trainer Programme will help you:

  • Develop the skills and confidence you need to put in place career management strategies
  • Deliver Career Conversations training to managers
  • Empower employees to take ownership for their professional development
  • Help employees prepare for career conversations with their manager and others
  • Build scalable programmes linked to your business strategy or integrated with your own content.
  • Access a professional community and resources for ongoing support and professional development

"'The career conversation model empowers employees by being based on solutions, clients' strengths and on the future. Accelerated learning methods motivate and bring about behavioural change. Participants walk away with a practical toolkit they can start using right away. Most useful for trainers is that they know how to address the challenge of those resistant to change"

- Head of Career Planning & Communication, Career Management, UNHCR

What we cover

A pre-requisite of participating in the Career Conversations Train the Trainer Programme is that participants have completed the Confident Career Conversations Programme.

The Career Conversations Train the Trainer Programme is a 4-module Programme:

Module 1 - You will learn how to influence behaviour change and the principles underpinning new skill development.

Module 2 - You will understand the Solutions Focus practices that help influence behaviour change. These principles underpin the design of the Career Conversations programme.

Module 3 - You will discover the brain-friendly learning principles that make learning engaging and effective

Module 4 - You will explore how to engage participants and facilitate online learning discussions.

“I really appreciated learning the different stages of behavioural change. This is very important for the Managers who have over the years been seen as ‘bad’ Managers. They could be supported and the change would be beneficial to the organization, the manager, staff and the persons of concern, resulting from the conducive working atmosphere achieved through behavioural change.”

- Programme Manager, Talent Development Division, UNHCR

Who will benefit?

The Career Conversation Train the Trainer Programme is for trainers, coaches, consultants, managers, HR/LOD professionals who have completed the Confident Career Conversations Programme and wish to build practical career conversation skills within an organisation. You may work inside an organisation or may serve as an external consultant/coach advising and supporting organisations.

"I loved the personal practice and experience. I feel more confident as a result. The brain-friendly approaches make the training much more enjoable and effective! The structured approach and booklet for each day will really help when I am delivering the workshops. And it was great to learn from the facilitators' experience in the field."

- HR and Training Officer, International Agency for Research on Cancer

How it Works

In your own time and at your own pace, you will complete the self-directed learning through our comprehensive learning portal. This involves watching recorded videos, completing online activities, background reading, practice, and interacting with others via online comments.

It’s a highly practical programme. Each module focuses on a new concept or tool and you are encouraged to put each of them into practice – so you're ready to make immediate use of your learning.

Self-directed learning has many benefits:

1. Time management and pacing

You can access the programme at the time that best suits you and move at your own pace.

2. Unlimited access

After completing the programme, the material is always available, so you can refer back to it any time you need to.

3. Feedback and support

Antoinette personally reads every comment posted in the comments section so you receive feedback and support throughout the programme


"I love the materials that we received on the Facilitator Programme - The toolkit, all the workbooks and resources, slides, agenda. They are all ready to be used straight away, We have already planned our first Confident Career Conversations Workshop for Managers in just a few weeks"

- HR Manager, Global Talent Management, World Health Organisation (WHO)

Programme Materials

As a Certified AO Facilitator, you will be certified, authorised and equipped to deliver your own Career Conversations training presentations and workshops based on proven AO content. With our facilitation resources and ready-to-use materials, you will be fully prepared to deliver each proven session.

Based on Antoinette Oglethorpe’s years of professional experience as a career management expert, the resources you will be quipped with are the same ones Team AO has used to train some of the largest organisations in the world.

Additionally, you will be given authorisation to use select AO logos and messaging to help you promote career conversations training to your audiences.


Career Conversations Workshop Kit

Each participant will receive a Career Conversations Workshop Kit which includes:

1. A Facilitator Kit containing:

A Comprehensive Facilitator Guide which includes key learning points, helpful tips for participant engagement and a breakdown of timeframes required for delivery

Powerpoint slides

Internal Marketing Materials such as an editable email message to invite employees to participate in the programme and an editable flyer to promote the programme to participants.

2. One Complete Digital Participant Kit which includes:

Confident Career Conversations workbook (editable PDF)
Career Conversation Toolkit (PDF)
Career Compass Workbook (editable PDF)
It's Good to Talk eBook (PDF)

Certified AO Facilitators can purchase further materials at 30% discount of standard prices.

License to use materials

Antoinette Oglethorpe Ltd will retain all Intellectual Property rights of the Career Conversations materials but will grant graduates of the Programme a non-exclusive license to use them under the following terms.

  • Purpose: Certified facilitators can use the materials for business purposes only
  • Notices and Markings:Certified facilitators will not remove any notices or markings from the materials
  • Ownership: Antoinette Oglethorpe Ltd remains the owner of the IP
  • Protecting IP: Certified facilitators will diligently protect the IP
  • Quality Control:Only Certified Career Conversations Facilitators can use the materials to deliver the Career Conversations Workshops

Approved by the Institute of Leadership

On completion of the Career Conversations Train the Trainer Online Programme you will be awarded membership of the Institute of Leadership at the Member Grade (MIoL). As a result of membership you will be able to:

- Access to the Institute's Award-Winning elearning tool, MyLeadership

- Use the letters MInstLM after your name to demonstrate your commitment to leadership

- Share and learn from like-minded people

- Keep learning with expertly curated resources.

- Dive deeper into current leadership and management issues in The Edge Journal

Your Instructor


Antoinette Oglethorpe
Antoinette Oglethorpe

Antoinette is an award-winning leadership development consultant, coach, speaker and author. She has over 25 years’ experience in developing leaders for the world’s most successful organisations – companies like P&G, Accenture and Avanade. She works with individual leaders, leadership teams and HR professionals.


Antoinette uses a solution-focused approach to focus on the things that will have the greatest impact on performance. By helping to make progress in those areas, she inspires her clients to operate more effectively and deliver better results. In the past few years, she has supported multiple career management programmes or initiatives at international organisations in a range of sectors. She was a contributor to the award-winning Virtual Career Labs at the United Nations Development Programme, which won two Fuel50 awards in 2017 as outstanding career management initiatives.


Antoinette frequently provides free resources to HR practitioners via her website. She speaks at events across the globe on subjects like the impact of mentoring and the importance of career conversations to engage, keep and develop leaders, among other talent development topics. In 2016, she launched a book called “Grow Your Geeks: A Handbook for Developing Leaders in High-Tech Organisations.”


Course Curriculum


  Introduction
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  Module 1 - Influencing Behaviour Change
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  Module 2: Solutions Focus - Philosophy and Practice
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