Online learning
Learning theories, instructional design, facilitation techniques: the program's resources are available at any time, on the device of your choice, backed by exercises and corrected field cases.
Diploma program · 100 % online
Trainer
Design, deliver and assess training programs that genuinely transform the practices of those who take them. A fully online adult-trainer program, validated by a real training project.
100 % remoteSynodeo diplomaPrepares for RNCP 3727512-month access
Hours, support and price
142 hTotal training time
4 hOf one-to-one video coaching, included
€1,200incl. tax, i.e. €100 per month over 12 months
Price subject to a pathway adjusted following the diagnostic interview.
What the price includes4 hours of one-to-one video coaching with your referent, to be scheduled freely across your program. This volume is the same for every learner on this program: it is not decided at the diagnostic. It comes with unlimited e-mail support - as many questions as you need on content, deliverables and method, answered within 72 working hours. If you want more video time, additional 4-hour packages (€300, i.e. +€25/month) can be added at any point.
The promise
What you'll actually be able to do.
By the end of this program, you design training programs that don't just transmit knowledge - they transform.
You know how to listen to a need before proposing a solution, build a progression that respects your learners' intelligence, and facilitate a group of adults while holding both the rigor of the content and the freedom of the experience. You become the kind of trainer people recommend - the one from whom learners walk away having learned something beyond what they came for, and to whom they come back.
- Master the theoretical, legal and digital fundamentals of adult training, and hold a professional stance.
- Analyze a training need and build a coherent teaching progression.
- Design a detailed instructional scenario, learning activities and their assessment.
- Facilitate a training session and troubleshoot difficulties, both in-person and remotely.
- Welcome and co-build an individualized path with each learner.
- Assess learning outcomes and analyze your practice to evolve it.
- Comply with regulations, embed your activity in a responsible approach, and maintain your expertise through structured monitoring.
Prerequisites
What you need to start
Demonstrable, real professional expertise, built on several years of practice. A first field of application already in view (a training request, a facilitation project, a knowledge-transfer mission), or being actively engaged in positioning yourself as a trainer. No academic prerequisites: Synodeo relies on experience and reflective capacity.
The program
A path built step by step.
01
Mastering the fundamentals of the trade
Before any tool, four foundations to lay: the theoretical fundamentals of adult education (andragogy, learning theories), the legal framework of professional training, the right stance for a trainer - facilitator rather than expert-who-knows -, and the cross-cutting digital tools essential to your activity.
02
Designing a training program
A good training program starts well before the first session. You learn to hear the real need behind the request, to translate a professional goal into measurable learning objectives, to build a progression that respects learners' intelligence, and to produce materials that serve learning.
03
Facilitating and enabling learning
Facilitating means holding the content, the group, the timing and the energy all at once. You train to open a session with intention, to alternate formats, to manage a group without constraining it, to handle difficult situations, and to master the art of remotely following a cohort.
04
Supporting learners
A program plays out as much in the room as in each person's trajectory. You learn to welcome, to conduct an honest positioning assessment, to differentiate your teaching according to profiles, and to situate the training within the learner's broader professional development.
05
Assessing and evolving
A training program is judged by what it leaves behind. You learn to assess learning in its full depth, to engage in reflective practice on your activity, to comply with applicable regulations, and to set up structured monitoring - the lasting condition of your expertise.
Zoom in on the content
What you work on, module by module.
One example of method and one case-study excerpt per module - taken directly from the program's courses.
01
Mastering the fundamentals of the trade
Theoretical fundamentalsGeneral legal frameworkProfessional stanceCross-cutting digital tools
Method in focus
Biggs' constructive alignment: making the intended objective, the proposed activity, and the chosen assessment all point in the same direction, by phrasing each objective with an observable action verb rather than a vague word like "understand".
Case in focus
A trainer receives a vague request - "have the teams know how to use the software." She translates it into multi-level objectives depending on profiles, from simple screen recognition to independently solving an unfamiliar case, and links each one to a coherent activity and assessment.
02
Designing a training program
Building the teaching progressionDesigning the instructional scenarioDesigning activities and assessment
Method in focus
The three-level cascade of objectives: breaking down an overall objective into intermediate objectives, then session objectives, each phrased with an observable verb, to build a sequence that alternates formats every twenty to thirty minutes.
Case in focus
For the same software workshop, a trainer needs to advance both an anxious employee who doubts herself and a young apprentice who is overconfident. She builds a two-track sequence - a first guided case, then a more demanding case in a mixed pair - that moves both forward without sacrificing either.
03
Facilitating and enabling learning
Facilitating and enablingTroubleshooting difficultiesMentoring remotely
Method in focus
The five stages of running a session: anticipating from real profiles, opening by setting a co-built framework, pacing by reading disengagement signals, reviving participation with open questions, and closing to anchor what's been learned.
Case in focus
On a Monday morning, a group starts out flat and a learner in career transition blurts out that he's "not cut out for computers." Rather than pushing through the planned content, the trainer changes format, gets the group moving, then brings this learner back to ground where he's an expert before reconnecting him to the software - never commenting on his success out loud.
04
Supporting learners
Welcoming and co-buildingSupporting learning pathsSupporting professional development
Method in focus
The seven-stage intake interview, leading up to co-building a personal objective set alongside the shared objectives, without ever lowering standards or promising what the training itself can't deliver.
Case in focus
A reserved learner, internally identified for a management position, shows up to the intake interview on the defensive - "I'll just do the training like everyone else." By holding a silence and then reflecting back without judgment, the trainer draws out an unspoken ambition, and folds it into the path without changing a word of the shared program.
05
Assessing and evolving
Assessing learning outcomesAnalyzing one's practiceComplying with regulations & CSRMonitoring & expertise
Method in focus
The criteria-based rubric: breaking a competency down into three to six weighted criteria, each paired with an observable indicator, to make assessment traceable, fair, and defensible if challenged.
Case in focus
At the end of a training program, the learner most comfortable speaking seems the best prepared. The graded simulation reveals the opposite: he moves fast but makes mistakes, while a slower, quieter colleague never gets it wrong. Without the rubric, the trainer would have ranked the two profiles backwards.
Condensed, anonymized excerpts from the program's case studies - for teaching purposes, not transcripts of real sessions.
How it works
100 % remote, at your own pace - never alone.
Everything happens online, at your own pace; the program stays open for one year after enrollment, and you never move through it without support.
Personalized coaching
Over video with your Synodeo mentor, you work on your instructional choices, your facilitation stance, and the progress of your training project. Four hours of video coaching are included in the program, alongside unlimited e-mail support.
The black book
Here, the signature device takes a form specific to the trade: you design, from end to end, a training project aimed at young professionals, you document every decision in your black book, and you facilitate at least one session as soon as your field allows.
Lived practice
Your diploma doesn't rest on declared knowledge, but on a training program you yourself designed, delivered, and analyzed.
Assessment
Validated by your practice, not by an exam.
Continuous validation
Every stage of the program includes its own checkpoints: self-corrected exercises, instructional design work reviewed by your mentor, and regular review of the black book where your training project lives.
Final validation
The defense, over video before a Synodeo mentor, focuses on your training project for young professionals: the design process, the facilitation delivered, and the reflective analysis you draw from it - while respecting the confidentiality of the people trained.
Diploma & certification
A proven diploma, solid recognition.
At the end of the program, Synodeo awards you its professional diploma. It doesn't certify attendance: it validates competencies actually demonstrated in your black book, tested in real support work and developed with your mentor.
This diploma is part of a dual-recognition model. On one hand, a professional certification backed by an external professional body, which situates your competencies against industry standards. On the other, a professional diploma awarded by Synodeo, which puts the school's own responsibility behind the quality of your training and assessment.
Synodeo designs its own curricula and trains with full pedagogical autonomy; professional recognition, meanwhile, rests on a third party external to the school. The same rigor runs from the first case study to the final defense.
RNCP 37275
Working toward certification
The program is backed by the professional certification "Formateur professionnel d'adultes" (Professional Adult Trainer), registered with France's National Register of Professional Certifications (RNCP 37275), and prepares you directly for it. The assessment takes place with a partner training organization; your positioning assessment specifies the terms.
Frequently asked questions
What people often ask us.
Do you need a diploma to become an adult trainer?
No: the profession is open to anyone with real expertise who knows how to pass it on. That's precisely what the program builds, and what the Adult Trainer diploma awarded by Synodeo attests to - on the strength of a training project genuinely designed and delivered.
What makes the Trainer program's black book distinctive?
It takes the form of a complete training project aimed at young professionals: needs analysis, teaching progression, scripting, materials, facilitating at least one session, and assessment. You document every judgment call in it, then draw from it the reflective analysis that becomes the material for your defense.
Can you become an independent trainer after this program?
Yes. The program covers the legal framework of professional training, responding to a training request, the relationship with the commissioning party, and monitoring - what's needed to practice within an organization or on your own.
Does the training prepare you to facilitate remotely?
Yes. Facilitation is worked on both in-person and remotely, from opening a session to following an online cohort, along with the digital tools that go with it.