Become a Certified Bigger Bucks Facilitator
Build business acumen at scale, by training your own people to run the simulation in-house. Bigger Bucks® Certification equips you to facilitate a hands-on, simulation-based learning experience that lifts financial literacy and commercial decision-making by showing how everyday choices impact the P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow.
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Why Bigger Bucks
Business and financial acumen are no longer optional.
When business acumen is confined to a small group of leaders, well-intended decisions can erode profitability, stall growth, and increase risk.
Bigger Bucks helps shift business acumen from “finance knowledge” to confident, commercially sound decision-making.
Benefits of Bigger Bucks Certification
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Bigger Bucks Certification Process
Format: Online 2–3 hour train-the-trainer session (once your organisation has purchased the Bigger Bucks materials).
Outcome: certified facilitators can run Bigger Bucks internally - building financial confidence and commercial capability over time.
Certification focuses on:
- How to set up and run the simulation smoothly
- How to guide gameplay and keep teams moving
- How to debrief so participants connect decisions to P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow
- How to translate insights into practical, role-relevant actions
What participants learn (what you’ll be certified to facilitate)
Tailored learning for every level
Bigger Bucks is fully customisable and designed for audiences such as: intact teams, cross-functional teams, emerging managers, sales professionals, and leaders.
Each experience can be tailored to the group’s responsibilities to maximise relevance and impact.
Trainer certification
Why become certified?
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Why become certified?
Becoming certified allows you to guide others in developing the skills they need to succeed. You will gain the knowledge and confidence to teach crucial concepts that positively impact your organisation’s culture and performance.
By certifying internal leaders and employees, your organisation can implement training in a cost-effective and efficient manner. Certification also equips you with the tools to customise the training to your organisation's specific culture and challenges. This tailored approach leads to more effective skill development and better results.
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Certification process
Crucial Influence
Trainer certification
Criteria to Become a Certified Crucial Learning (CL) Trainer.
- Must have attended a recent CL program
- Previous facilitation experience is helpful but not essential
- Sign an delivery agreement with Crucial Learning
- Attend a one hour, virtual Orientation Meeting held 4 weeks before certification training
- Certification is conducted over two days, covering content mastery, teach-backs, exercise facilitation, and platform navigation
- To become fully accredited, a Trainer must facilitate 3 programs per year and report on the Lives Impacted Portal
- Certified trainers gain access to "Fast Track" certification programs, ongoing support, and additional resources.
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Fast track
Getting Things Done
Fast Track Certification
Steps to Becoming a Certified Trainer in Multiple Crucial Learning (CL) Programs.
- Eligibility: Must be a Crucial Learning certified trainer
- Step 1: Attend the course in which you are seeking trainer certification
- Step 2: Pass an online content knowledge assessment within 30 days of attending the course
- Step 3: Receive trainer materials from Crucial Learning after passing the assessment
- Step 4: Begin facilitating the new course
- Step 5: Train three classes of the new course within nine months to complete certification
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Community
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Community
As a certified trainer, you become part of a supportive community designed to maximise your impact. Led by our Learning Experience Lead, the community provides ongoing assistance for training program planning, execution, and impact measurement.
Members benefit from quarterly virtual meetups, education sessions, peer to peer relationships, and other exclusive events and resources. The Trainer Community provides professional development opportunities, and empowers its members to continually enhance their skills and maximise their impact in organisational learning and development.
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Become a certified Bigger Bucks facilitator and embed business acumen as a workforce capability - not a leadership-only skill.
Frequently asked questions
How long does certification take?
Typically delivered as an online 2–3 hour train-the-trainer session once materials are purchased.
Do I need a finance background?
No. While a finance background is helpful, it is not a requirement to become a facilitator. Bigger Bucks is designed to build capability through discovery learning and gameplay, not lectures.
Who is Bigger Bucks for?
It can be tailored for intact teams, cross-functional cohorts, emerging managers, sales teams, and leaders.
What makes it different from traditional finance training?
Traditional modules often stay abstract; Bigger Bucks builds true acumen by having people run a business, make decisions, and learn from results.
How does it support better decision-making?
Bigger Bucks helps teams clearly see the cause-and-effect relationship between everyday decisions and financial outcomes. Through the simulation, participants make real business choices around pricing, costs, investment, and resourcing, then immediately see how those decisions flow through the profit and loss statement, balance sheet, and cash flow. This hands-on experience builds judgement, not just knowledge - helping people evaluate trade-offs, anticipate downstream impacts, and make more commercially sound decisions back in their real roles.
