One-to-one mentoring for entrepreneurs on how to create educational products
workshops | courses | e-Books | social media campaignstrainees in workshops across Europe and Africa
people trained one-to-one
digital learning users in 12 countries
hours of courses delivered
Demonstrate your expertise, gain trust, and grow your business.
Build a lifelong skill you can use everywhere, never becomes outdated, and leaves a positive mark on your life and your clients’.
Ideal for advisory entrepreneurs: consultants, coaches, therapists, trainers.
€ 295
2 one-hour video sessions
current status assessment
custom project & assignments
support between sessions
structured knowledge
long-term action plan
Before purchasing, make sure you are clear what product you want to develop and need assistance:
facilitated workshop
online course
e-Book or other instructional material
educational social media campaign
who is the mentoring for?
advisory entrepreneurs
This mentoring is ideal for those who use their expertise and experience to provide services and products to clients, but need compelling evidence to build trust and demonstrate value.
Consultants, coaches, therapists, counsellors, advisors.
training professionals
The offer is also fit for freelance or employed professional trainers who need an experienced opinion to audit their workshops, courses, and materials.
WHY mentorING?
Knowledge isn’t skill.
Training, like any skill, requires frequent practice.
More than that, training is a complex ability. Very few other skills integrate working with reason and emotion on so many levels during the same activity at the same time.
Deliberate practice requires effort and involves setting goals, getting just the right knowledge, practicing consistently, challenging yourself, monitoring performance, and embracing feedback for improvement.
This is precisely where one-to-one organized and systematic mentoring will help you advance and build skills to use in your practice.
What will be discussed during the mentoring sessions?
It’s entirely up to you. We can start building from your existing or partial courses, workshops, materials, or campaigns or we can start from scratch. Here are some common working scenarios:
‘I have never designed a training course, but I believe it’s time to build one now.
I don’t know yet if it’s going to be short or long, paid or free.
I need help with all the process. I also want some solid core abilities so I can build on them in the future.’
‘I know who my target clients are, I think I have some valuable content I need to turn into an interactive workshop that can be delivered both in person or online, live or digital.
I’m ok with exposure, I mainly need assistance with designing the information and the activities.’
‘I’d like my training course audited. I believe it has the potential to add more value to learners, so I am looking for fresh ideas to work on.
I’m not sure if it’s about structure, organization, training activities, or something else, but I welcome the challenge.’
‘I need assistance with the facilitation part. I think the needs analysis is sound, and the course structure is fine.
However, I believe there is room for improvement in terms of interaction and engagement with my audience. I also need to manage my energy better.’
‘I need you to help me write clear and engaging educational content for my audience.
Content I can use for social media campaigns, newsletters or postings, scripts for audio & video recordings, or more elaborate materials like e-Books.’
Are you experiencing any of these challenges now?
WHO IS MY mentor?
My name is Victor Răzvan Ghebaur. I am the founder of The Learning Designer.
Here is some quick info about my professional expertise:
Formal Education
My early formal education was in the navy: warship engines and navigation. That period taught me discipline and clarity of thought.
Later I studied sociology – intercultural management at the University of Bucharest.
I am currently continuing my psychology studies to become a fully certified psychotherapist, as I believe in the idea of keeping a ‘white belt’ mentality for life.
Corporate Employee
I spent 14 years working in customer service, sales, and mostly training, primarily in technology industries.
As a soft skills trainer, training manager, and training academy project manager in commercial divisions, I trained thousands of front-line employees on sales, customer service, and leadership.
Both classroom and one-to-one.
Entrepreneur
During the last 13 years, my career has progressed from freelancing as a soft skills trainer and consultant to custom digital learning business owner, leading a team of instructional designers and production specialists.
During this period I’ve had the opportunity to work with over 50 companies from around the world, to facilitate other hundreds of workshop hours.
Mentor
I recently decided to use my training, project management, and entrepreneurial experience to provide mentoring services for advisory entrepreneurs.
I reach out to consultants, coaches, therapists, advisors who want to develop new skills they can use to grow their business or practice.
In the future, I will build further support services and other products in this idea.
What do the clients say?
‘I really got lucky early in my career of learning and development having a chance to work, being coached and trained by a wonderful professional like Razvan.
He put his mark on our training programs which are very successful and perfectly fit for our needs.
Thank you for sharing your experience and skills without any hesitation during your onsite and remote support. You are one of a kind!’
Hana Alemu
Sales Enablement Lead
Ethio Telecom, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
‘I had the opportunity to cooperate with Victor on projects conception and I was very impressed by his creative, professional and high level skills through his proposals.
Victor is very curious and has the ability to always quickly adapt to his business partner to fully meet the objectives.’
Brigitte Raffard
Responsable des Ventes Régionales
Orange Business Services, Paris, France
‘It is rare to have in the same person a trainer and an instructional designer.
And it is a real advantage in any given project. It is so easy to build something great around his ideas.
I strongly recommend him for his human and professional abilities as a partner in your training projects online or offline, from design to delivery.’
Elena Florina Dochie
General Manager
eLearning & Software SRL, Bucharest, Romania
HOW CAN the mentorING HELP ME?
Essentially, there are at least two ways in which this mentoring can help you:
1. An educational product & the know-how to create the next one independently
Unless you have other deliverables in mind at the beginning of our collaboration, here are some examples of typical outputs you will have by the end of our project.
A facilitated workshop you can deliver online or in-person.
A convincing online course designed with minimum technical investment.
An e-Book or other educational material.
A social media campaign based on educational content.
Created by you, with my guidance, close feedback and support.
Moreover, the value is even greater than that: you will also learn the know-how to create them yourself in the future.
2. Supporting skills
Depending on what you want by the end of the project, expect to learn insights and best practices that will benefit you in the following areas:
Strategic Thinking
analyzing the learning needs of your clients
developing learning objectives
aligning educational products with your general business strategy
monitoring learning progress
using learning products to promote and sell other services
Teaching Tactics & Methods
using clear thinking and mental models for clarity
designing activities
delivering presentations
facilitating discussions
managing group dynamics
adapting delivery for online courses
how to write compelling educational copy
Psychology of Learning & Teaching
exploring the newest neurobiology of learning and apply it to course design and learning projects
transferring learning into practice after training
starting and keeping routines and habits
Expression & Interactivity
using body language
building expert and training credibility
rapport-building
using examples, stories, and metaphors
providing feedback
questioning skills
motivating learning engagement
pacing
overcoming fear and nervousness
managing own energy
Setup / Environment for Learning
designing training materials, presentations, and workbooks
designing environmental learning aids
‘paper environment’ for instructional materials
how to create an encouraging online environment
When properly executed, the result is what we commonly call in training a ‘learning experience’. I’m looking forward to assisting you create a memorable and useful one.
HOW DOES THE MENTORING HAPPEN?
Depending on your business type, on your clients and on the target product, we will prepare a custom process. Here are some usual elements:
1. Enrollment
This is a short initial discussion in which we confirm the type of educational product we are going to work on.
Here I will also accustom myself with your business, your clients and your strategy.
Unless this type of product design is completely new for you, I highly recommend providing your input upfront.
This can be in the form of a recorded sequence of a facilitated workshop, a planning or a work in progress version of your course, or any information related to our project. By doing so, we save time and ensure that every minute we spend is valuable by having an accurate point A regarding your skills.
Think of it as you giving me the homework at this stage.
2. Video session 1 / point A
Here I will tell you about the analysis I made on your input.
I will propose and we agree on the project objectives, structure, timeline, and who does what and when.
I will also provide resources, tasks, and activities until next time.
We schedule the next session, usually weeks or months apart so you have enough time to implement.
3. Support between sessions
I provide personalized feedback on the agreed tasks via e-mail or platform.
I will ask you for partially executed versions (recordings, materials) so I can come up with just in time feedback.
The purpose of this stage is to assist and support you to do the tasks as effectively as possible so by the next video session you preferably have the workshop, course, material or social media campaign ready to launch.
I will also provide handpicked know-how, tips and tricks on how to execute and prepare.
Your discipline is very important at this stage.
4. Video session 2 / point B
If the products are in their final form, we discuss fine tuning, implementation tips.
If not, we’ll clarify the next steps and timeline.
I will also provide a summary feedback on your skills based on a ‘before and after’ / point A point B approach with tips on how to monitor your own progress in the future.
We develop short, medium, and long-term action plans for improvement.
We may plan future sessions depending on your needs and budget.
WHY IS TRAINING A WONDERFUL SKILL TO DEVELOP AND IMPROVE?
Think opportunities. Contemplate a future in which your training and educational product design skills will help you to:
Grow your business
Regardless whether or not you use your products for selling or for social marketing purposes, they will be an excellent leverage for growth in an industry where trust is key.
Moreover, this is an excellent opportunity to critically revise your business strategy.
Create educational products independently
You will have the know-how, the models, and the discipline to create other polished workshops, courses, instructional materials or social media educational campaigns.
Leave a positive mark on people’s lives
A former workshop participant writes to you:
‘Your training really helped me back then, I think that’s when things started to change for the better.’
Grow your network
You will have hundreds, if not thousands, of new networking possibilities as a result of the exposure you received while training others.
Improve your clarity of thinking and empathy
You will significantly increase both your clarity of thinking and your human connection skills.
Training is one of the few abilities that encourages you to think both logically and be present at any given moment.
Gain more self-confidence
Training teaches you how to develop informal authority and gain respect naturally.
People trust you, respect you and follow you for reasons other than your position or status.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is included?
- Two one-hour online focused discussions.
- Access to the mentor between sessions (via e-mail and platform).
- Mentoring-specific assignments, plans, and resources.
- Access to the online portal. You need to create an account to communicate with your mentor and also to keep an accurate tracking between sessions.
- Evaluation of your inputs (i.e. recorded training, designs, plans, written pieces and other deliverables).
- Structured assessment.
- Other personality or style inventories if necessary.
- Action plan for future improvement after coaching.
Isn’t it more than mentoring?
Indeed, each interaction contains in various degrees a mix of mentoring, instruction, and even coaching.
What do you mean by e-mail support between the mentoring sessions?
Anything related to the mentoring project and objectives with me in the role of a mentor or consultant. Generally that means that you you implement and I offer guidance and feedback.
How many sessions do I get?
The mentoring package comes with two one-hour sessions as well as assessments, assignments, structured knowledge, feedback and other forms of support. These will be available before and between the two one-hour sessions.
What language do we speak during the video sessions?
English.
Is the mentoring going to happen if I don't submit the input materials before the first video session?
It is but consider how much more value I could deliver for your money if you did. Having both a before and an after picture significantly raises the quality of our entire project. If the design of such products is totally new for you, don’t worry, I will provide step-by-step guidance for each task.
In what language do I send the input materials (recordings, presentations, documents)?
You may provide them in any language. I will use artificial intelligence tools to translate any audio or text. If there are still language issues I need to clarify, we do so swiftly via e-mail or during our video sessions.
Except for English and Romanian (my native language), I am quite comfortable with spoken and written German, as well as with most romance languages in written form.
Is your offer beneficial to me if I'm in the public education?
Yes, if your focus is on facilitation techniques, adding interactivity to instruction, or improving content design for adult learners.
Other than that, you may discover better alternatives elsewhere. I have two years of professional experience teaching 14-year-old teens at a public school, but I don’t think teaching children and teens is my strong suit.
Anyway, feel free to schedule a free 15-minutes conversation so you can make a more informed decision after that.
Do you develop slides or workbooks?
I don’t. But I provide feedback on the visual design whenever required.
Do you provide consultancy services for larger learning or training projects?
Please contact me for further information.
Terms and conditions
You agree to the following when you book the mentoring service:
Booking
Bookings are most conveniently completed via our online booking system. Contact us if you prefer invoice payment and bank-to-bank transfer.
After booking, you’ll get an email confirmation and receipt. If you haven’t gotten the confirmation email in 24 hours and checked your spam folder, let us know and we’ll assist.
Payments
You may pay by debit/credit card or bank transfer.
For direct bank-to-bank transfers, email us and we’ll send you an invoice with our bank info. Funds must be clear before booking.
Prices
The price you see when booking is what you pay.
The price already includes VAT.
Price adjustments are subject to change at any time.
Scheduling
Connect with your mentor to schedule the video sessions. Considering international time differences and mentor availability, we will make every effort to accommodate your needs.
We recommend leaving enough time between sessions to implement the recommendations.
The second video session should take place no more than three months after the first session.
Rescheduling
We can reschedule a video session. Please let us know about it as soon as possible.
Non-attendance and no cancellation notice will result in losing the session and the paid fee.
Cancelling
Cancelling your session before submitting your initial input materials for evaluation or before the first video meeting, you will receive a full refund.
Following this point, you may terminate the partnership at any moment by giving notice. No refund will be given in this instance.
We will provide notice and reimburse you for the remaining sessions if, for any reason, we are the ones ending our mentoring partnership.
Relationship
The aim of the mentoring relationship is to assist you in realizing your objectives.
The mentor will assist you in improving your performance.
Responsibilities
To participate in the mentoring sessions as scheduled.
To provide the information or input required for the mentoring.
To choose discussion topics according to your progress needs.
To formulate and pursue objectives.
Platform
To share information throughout the coaching process, we will use our online platform to simplify the process of providing you instructions, tasks, submitting your videos and materials, and so on.
No recording will happen without the explicit agreement of the parts involved.
Legal
The mentoring services cannot be relied on for legal interpretation.
The Learning Designer, its trainers, mentors, and coaches are not liable for delegates’ actions.
Copyright
All workbooks, instructions, handouts, and training materials are protected by copyright, and it is completely forbidden to reproduce, distribute, or sell them without permission.