What is a quality assessment tool ?

What is a quality assessment tool ?

Apr 19, 2021 | Training Design

A quality assessment tool consists of a number of components. Each one designed to meet particular conditions that ultimately ensure the tool meets the principles of assessments and rules of evidence. To ensure the tool is Valid, we use a mapping matrix that carefully...
7 Steps to map an assessment

7 Steps to map an assessment

Apr 19, 2021 | Training Design

Mapping assessments There are two approaches to mapping; 1. As you develop the assessments, 2. Mapping existing assessments. The approaches have a slight difference in the process, but the end results should be the same. I’d like to cover mapping existing...
My top 3 workplace training tips

My top 3 workplace training tips

Apr 19, 2021 | Training Design

The phone rings again and your trainee is called off to attend to another customer. You sit patiently waiting for her to return and shuffle some assessment papers around in your folder. You can’t help but think that this workplace isn’t serious about training. Or that...

Taking learning and development seriously

Apr 19, 2021 | Training Design

When you were a teenager, chances are, you sat in a sterile room on a weekday morning with a few of your compatriots, answering a long list of driver safety questions. The State government of the day wanted you to attain a certain level of knowledge before proving...
Creating a 40 minute presentation in just 5 minutes

Creating a 40 minute presentation in just 5 minutes

Apr 19, 2021 | Training Design

Let’s look at the stumbling blocks that some people have when it comes to developing a 40 minute training session. Firstly, it can be the subject itself. What should I train? Where do I start? This should be the easiest step to overcome, but I have seen people...

Documenting Emotional Behaviours

Apr 19, 2021 | Training Design

Excerpt from our Diploma of Leadership and Management program Documenting behaviours To analyse emotional behaviours, collecting and recording your data accurately is essential. It is difficult to recall subtle emotional behaviours accurately more than 60 minutes...
FREE External validation of your TAE16 materials

FREE External validation of your TAE16 materials

Apr 19, 2021 | Training Design

The new text book for the Certificate IV in Training and Assessment went to print on Friday 20th May, 2016. The new requirements for RTOs with the previous TAE10 on scope include an “external validation” of the four assessment units (below) as a minimum,...
Are you a leader? Then maybe you should work alone?

Are you a leader? Then maybe you should work alone?

Apr 19, 2021 | Training Design

I’ve often wondered why groups of seemingly intelligent and powerful people find it so hard to come to a decision. Government question time comes to mind, as do boards of directors I have had dealings with. But anecdotes aside, there is now real evidence...
How do you measure EQ in your managers?

How do you measure EQ in your managers?

Apr 19, 2021 | Training Design

For around 30 years, Emotional Intelligence (EI or EQ) has been slowly but surely gaining popularity as a means by which to identify the human skills that some people seem to have as an innate quality, while others don’t seem to have at all. While I’m not...