Training Assessment Education

Category: Assessment

  • DiSC Profiles

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    I use DiSC a lot in my programs when it is relevant. The cost is a bit prohibitive for some clients but there are some cheap (free) tools out there. The best one I have found recently is on Tony Robbins website. Check it out and do the quick assessment. The report is quite comprehensive.…

  • Assessment Anguish

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    I have been a little tardy in my blog posts lately and a big part of that has been the constant stream of assessments to mark. After a particularly intensive session of assessment I realised that in a lot of cases most answers would be competent given the vagueness of the assessment question. Worse, often…

  • ASQA – You’ve got it all wrong!

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    Many trainers, assessors and RTO managers will already know about some of the proposed changes that ASQA wants to introduce to improve the quality of assessment. As they state: “In November 2015 Skills Ministers agreed to explore reform options to support the following principles: Graduates have the required competencies for the job role and there…

  • Bread and the Future of Learning

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    I have been watching a great documentary on Netflix called Cooking. It has nothing to do with training or education. On the weekend I was watching the third episode on Air which introduced bread making. There has been a common theme running through all of the episodes that essentially states that due to the decreased…

  • The mismatch

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    Here is an interesting post from Jane Hart regarding the mismatch between how L&D and employees see workplace learning. Do you agree? I often experience this mismatch particularly when an employee attends a competency program and I have to cover certain content which isn’t  really relevant to the employee, or they could just simply look…

  • What work are you suited to?

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    It took me a long time to work out what sort of work I was suited to. Basically for me that is working for myself, generally by myself. If you want to fast track the process of finding out what work suits you try the assessment below. My assessment came up with the classification Independent…

  • Being Civil

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    Of course as a trainer you need to be civil. There does appear to be a lot of uncivil behaviour around us at times. Why? No one is really sure but things like social media and mobile phones have been indicated as possible causes. Test you civility below with this quick quiz. I scored 86…

  • Productivity Assessment for 2016

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    Time to get productive for 2016. take the simple assessment below from Harvard Business Review and find out what you nee to do to get productive for 2016. Take the assessment here

  • More Feedback

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    I sent out a post on Wednesday about providing feedback to participants. Here is a good follow up article in regard to the value of positive feedback and employees. The same principles though would apply to training participants. Read the article here.

  • Feedback

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      I have been delivering a lot of feedback training lately. It’s not the easiest thing to deliver as it is more about the right attitude. Culturally, in Australia, I believe we find giving positive feedback difficult, unnecessary and often embarrassing so we avoid it. Critical feedback is given out more frequently but often with…