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In the dynamic world of Vocational Education and Training, trainers hold the key to industry knowledge and skills. We are the custodians and the guardians of our industries. With years of diverse experience across various organisations, we've gained invaluable firsthand insights into the nitty-gritty secrets of our industries. Preserving the integrity of our industries and staying current is crucial.
It’s pretty likely that we’ve all worked for or under a bad leader - someone who depletes your creativity, diminishes your desire for innovation, stifles your will to show initiative, crushes your authority or micro-manages you. It feels lousy, deflating, exhausting, mentally draining and demotivating.
And what happens when employees feel this way? They generally leave for greener pastures, where they hope to feel valued and appreciated for their contribution to the ‘team’. This happens all too often and it’s a well-known fact that the cost of keeping existing employees is far less than onboarding new ones.
Let’s start by expressing our gratitude for your contribution to the field of wellness and human potential. The world needs you to keep motivating us to our own greatness.
Being an exceptional trainer and creating memorable experiences for your learners takes continuous self-reflection and feedback, improvement and reinvention. And while we strive to improve our professional skills, sometimes it’s the quality of our training resources that could benefit from a revamp.
In the last 20 years since life coaching became an alternative to counselling and business mentoring, so many people have engaged a life or business coach to help them get ahead. The services they provide are incredible for helping you do just that.
But not all coaches are equal and not all Coaching Programs are effective. The industry is unregulated, so a person can pretty much do a weekend workshop and call themselves a life coach. For obvious reasons, this could affect the end game for you.
One issue with the coaching industry is the lack of industry standards around the formal training and qualifications of the coach. In an unregulated industry, it can be difficult to distinguish between a well-intentioned amateur, a glossy motivator with good marketing skills, and a qualified, experienced coach and mentor.
It’s no act of heroism going it alone when it comes to deciding on your career options or pathways, it can be costly and time consuming. Career change can be a minefield to navigate, especially for the inexperienced person and it may not be enough to just ‘google it’. We are in the information era and not all of the information we find is good, real or trustworthy.
In these uncertain times where there are more people changing industries than ever before, it’s important to get it right so you can secure a stable position in an industry that is here to stay. And more importantly, if we have learnt anything of late, it’s to find happiness and balance in our career choices.
Recently, my twenty-two-year-old son had a major motorcycle accident right when he was about to sign up for an apprenticeship in landscape gardening. After two years of rehabilitation, he found himself physically unable to resume where he left off in the chosen career. Destiny seemed to have a different plan for him. During this time, he was stressed and depressed with moments of anxiety and uncertainty clouding his judgement of what to do next. So, we arranged a Career Counselling session for him and it changed his life direction in ways we had never considered… For the best. He is now studying Environmental Science at university! So…
It’s no secret that completing TAE40116 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment involves a significant amount of work, and the quality of the learning resources and support available has everything to do with how easily you will complete the qualification. The TAE (training and assessment qualification) has a notorious reputation for being a must have qualification but it’s not easy to get… unless you enrol in a quality course and receive the right level of guidance to help you through.
Been hearing whispers of an upgrade to the TAE40116 program? Well, the rumours are true, it’s happening, it’s a fact. The new TAE40122 draft (which arrived in our inboxes on May 2, 2022) is in the public review process and is due for release in December of this year if all goes according to plan.
There are many ways to train and teach a student new, exciting topics, but what does it really take for a student to remember something new and recall it a week, a month or a year or more later? And when the whole point of delivering training is so the participants can remember and apply what they’ve learnt in a workplace, sometime later… Retention becomes a key factor in a course and trainer's success.
It’s been said that when hearing about new content, only 10% of the content is remembered. It’s also said that the more engaging and interactive a training session is, the more the information is likely to be learned. So once we engage and wow our students with our presenting finesse and use of an assortment of training aids to do so, how do we encourage and support our students to retain and recall what we have taught them?
If you really want to have raving fans as students and assist them in achieving incredible results in your courses, try the following tips to help them retain and recall what you teach. Your students will come out on top – with understanding and the confidence to demonstrate their abilities.
5 ways to increase students' retention and recall information;