Staying Motivated as a Trainer

How to Keep your Motivation High no Matter the Circumstances Have you ever become ‘bored’ of delivering the same training over and over again? You see the session plan, slides or content and just don’t know if you can continue to ‘go through the motions’ anymore....

The problem with validation meetings

Are you attending an effective validation meeting? Validation is the cornerstone of accredited assessment. It’s the net that catches errors, compliance problems and shortfalls in the assessment process. A well-run validation will study the questions and activities...
What is a quality assessment tool ?

What is a quality assessment tool ?

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

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

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

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...

Documenting Emotional Behaviours

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...