Yes, you will get a Certificate of Completion. This certificate indicates your attendance and completion of the course, and demonstrate your knowledge in the HOBA method.

Strictly speaking, no. This is a Certificate Program, not a Certification program. As a certificate programme, on successful completion of the course, acquiring the knowledge and passing the test at the end, you will obtain your certificate, indicating your knowledge in the content (Business transformation using the HOBA® method). For this reason, this course is open to newcomers and experienced people alike. The long term plan for this course is to be offered as a Certification program.

There are industry best practices to follow to become a certification program. This includes working with psychometricians to develop the test and test questions.

The overall process to certification is – experience, take course, read the book or guide, 1-2 years after the course gaining practical experience, then take the test.

The key to a solid certification process is the testing/certification process is ‘legally defensible’, that the individual being certified is competent. In order to do that, industry best practices must be followed (not just some of them), it was proper beta tested, and is statistically valid.

There are a lot of courses out there that claim to be ‘certification’ but don’t follow industry best practices, only do some but not all, or just cater for ‘Test Takers’ to take the test without having any knowledge of the content, reading any material, book or guide or undergone any training.

Test Providers are finding ways around this by requiring Test Takers to become ‘members’, as a quasi ‘interest in the professionalism of the industry’.

We are not interested in fake certification. We are interesting in proper certification and will look to implement a proper certification process by industry best practices testing process as part of a longer term strategy due to the high costs involved.

We would be however interested to hear from any potential partners or sponsors that would be interested in pre-purchasing a minimum number of participants to undergo training (and therefore certification) or sponsoring the development of the certification programme to get their consultants certified.

No. A certificate that simply can be purchased isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. The test will test you have understand the course material and can apply it in a practical situation.

You will find the test is ‘satisfyingly difficult’, meaning its difficult enough that you need to actually know the materials but it isn’t tricky or difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That said, we have made the test(s) challenging and the questions relate to our proprietary methodology, so you shouldn’t expect to be able to pass the test just because you have taken other paid business transformation courses in the past. This training is different and the test(s) will reflect those differences.

Yes, you can retake the test, but you must wait at least 7-days to re-register. We recommend taking additional time to prepare, to maximize your chances of success.

You will have access to the course and any bonus material you accessed at the time the course was taken for a period of 12-months from the date the course was commenced.

We are still finalising the details, but it will be along these lines:

For individuals:

• There will be a 50 question online test (either online proctored or in a testing centre), 90 mins. Licence for certification valid for 12-months, nominal annual subscription fee (TBD) per year for maintenance etc. When we launch that program, early-birds will get first year free. Issued with downloadable physical certificate and electronic badge to put on email, website and LinkedIn. 

For organisations (that want to be certified partners):

• All partners must complete the training and certification test and pay the annual licence fee. That annual licence fee will depend on the number of certified partners in the practice, e.g. Bronze minimum – 1, Silver minimum – 3, and Gold minimum – 5 respectively.
• All partners will be listed on their own partner page. All visitors wanting to get a Certified partner to help them with their transformation can go online, search the partner directory and contact them directly, or when we get inquiries directly, we will send referrals to the nearest or best suited partner.
• There will be addition training for certified partners included as part of their licence fee – e.g. how to sell, implement and support HOBA plus sales and support materials so you can quickly and easily start offering paid training, implementation and support services for your clients
• For more details go here: https://hoba.tech/partner-program/