you don't need to go to anyone Just export your powerpoint with the notes pages to MS word and then give a border and cover page .Adjust the size of each image in this exported file by using the Format picture option in MS word .Add the header and footer .Version date,page number and the name of your company in the footer .Place the Title of the session and course name in the header along with the logo of your company.Your Facilitaor guide is ready .Split the Guide according the the number of session and name it to prevent the file size from becoming to large .Convert into PDF for ease in printing .Create an common cover page

The "market value" is whatever participants in a negotiation agree to. If you are looking for a fee to charge to build the guide....or looking to engage someone else to do it for you....all that matters is that both parties feel the transaction was fair.

But we still don't know your actual circumstance (need/intent)....so here are some random thoughts:

If it is your workshop and you want to make it available to others as a package then the cost to them is imbedded in the sale. You don't recover your investment all at once. Consider proving an optional T4T (training for trainers) learning event to insure the quality and integrity of the program is maintained. I ask people to first attend as a participant...follow with a workshop that focuses on a blend of process and content, then co-train one session with each person.

If you are hiring someone to create a facilitators guide then you have to determine it's value to you....not based on a national norm. How much time will it save you? What is your time worth....etc. The downside here is that if you developed the workshop no one will ever be able to put together a guide that you won't need to adjust.

And, as Kaliko and Pkanthan have indicated, if you are already delivering the workshop you already have (maybe in you head) what needs to be included. It is then just a matter of collecting it all and making it pretty.

Provide more details on what you are thinking and we can all take another shot at a reply.

when possible I always create the facilitators guide first. You can reverse engineer it if you are a SME. Even where I am the SME I would charge $3500 per half day of FG materials. Top of my head number w/o knowing the scope. Probably more if I have to work with an SME to create it.

A GOOD facilitator guide should be in such a format that someone who has never instructed this course before could learn how to teach it by using the guide. This includes questions to ask, anecdotes, exercises, answers, etc. No small task to do it correctly. Not cheap either. I would guess at 40 to 60 hours of development time for an FG depending on the topic and how many rolelays, etc.

Hope this helps

A good facilitator should need only the objective(s) and an outline.

A facilitator who is still learning should need only the objectives, outline, and suggestions for learning activities.

NOBODY should be teaching a class just because he/she has a facilitator guide. If you have to spoonfeed the facilitator how to teach the class, then that person shouldn't be teaching the class.

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A GOOD facilitator guide should be in such a format that someone who has never instructed this course before could learn how to teach it by using the guide. This includes questions to ask, anecdotes, exercises, answers, etc. No small task to do it correctly. Not cheap either. I would guess at 40 to 60 hours of development time for an FG depending on the topic and how many rolelays, etc.

Hope this helps

I generally create courseware (including facilitator guides) for SMEs. As such they are much less than noted above. One option is to create an FG with background info, help for workshops, etc. and then supply a DVD (or DVDs) of you delivering the material.