Behaviour Change and Innovation Facilitation Training

Learning Outcomes

• Apply principles of behaviour change to develop strategies that encourage adoption of new practices.
• Analyse the social, economic and cultural factors influencing innovation in extension contexts.
• Design participatory processes that facilitate stakeholder engagement and co-creation of solutions.
• Implement monitoring and evaluation frameworks to assess the effectiveness of change interventions.
• Demonstrate facilitation skills that promote group learning, problem-solving and innovation.
• Evaluate the impact of innovation facilitation on community development and agricultural productivity.

Target Audience

Extension officers, agricultural advisors, community development workers, and managers responsible for driving change and innovation in rural or agricultural settings.

Prerequisites

None — open enrollment.

Course Outline

Practicals

Overview

Practicals are integral to this course, allowing learners to apply behaviour change and facilitation theories in simulated and real-world scenarios. Through role-plays, design thinking sprints, and capstone project development, learners gain hands-on experience in designing, facilitating, and evaluating interventions.

Practical Activities

• Facilitation Role-Play Sessions — Learners conduct facilitated conversations with simulated participants to practice motivational interviewing and handling resistance. (16h)
• Design Thinking Sprint — Teams work through a full design thinking cycle to develop a prototype behaviour change intervention for a given challenge. (16h)
• Needs Assessment and Intervention Planning — Learners design a needs assessment tool, collect simulated data, and develop a logic model and intervention plan. (16h)
• Capstone Project Development and Presentation — In teams, learners develop a comprehensive behaviour change and innovation plan for a real or simulated organisation, culminating in a stakeholder presentation. (20h)

Summatives

Each delegate is assessed continuously throughout the course via daily exercises, scored practical assignments, and a final summative test at the end.

Practical Assignments — 30%

Practical assignments are observed and scored against a rubric during the practical sessions. Each delegate's practical mark is averaged into a single 100% score and contributes 30% to the final total.

Daily Exercises — 20%

Every training day ends with a multiple-choice exercise scored out of 100%. The scores from each daily exercise are averaged across the duration of the course to produce a Daily Average mark, which contributes 20% to the final total.

Final Test — 50%

On the last day a final summative test is written. It is a multiple-choice paper with multiple-answer questions: each question may have more than one correct option, and a single wrong selection on a question marks the entire question wrong — no partial credit. The final test is scored out of 100% and contributes 50% to the overall mark.

Final Total

Component	Out of	Weight
Practical Assignments (rubric-scored)	100%	30%
Daily Average (multiple choice)	100%	20%
Final Test (multi-answer multiple choice)	100%	50%
Final Total	—	100%

All marks are recorded on the AATICD LMS and visible to each learner under their account.

Certificate

How it works

• Certificates are auto-generated on the AATICD LMS as soon as the marks pass the 50% threshold.
• Each certificate is a branded PDF with the delegate's name, the course title, the unit standard ID, NQF level, credits, and the date of issue.
• You can download or print your certificate from your LMS dashboard at any time after issue — there's no reissue fee and no expiry date.
• If you scored under 50% you can sit the final test again at the next scheduled session at no extra cost.

Where to find it

Sign in to the LMS, open your dashboard, and your certificates appear under My Certificates. Each entry has a View / Download button and a print option.

Training Discounts

Group discounts apply automatically — the more delegates you enrol, the greater the saving. Discounts are calculated at 3% per 5 delegates, scaling up to 40% off for 100+ delegates.

Delegates	Discount
5	3% off
10	6% off
15	9% off
20	12% off
25	15% off
30	18% off
50	30% off
75	35% off
100	40% off

3% discount per 5 delegates, up to 40% off for 100+ delegates. Contact us for a custom group quote.