Training Assessment Education

Category: Competency

  • Soft Skills

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    Photo by Yuriy Kovalev on Unsplash A great deal of my training is essentially the development of soft skills. Conflict resolution, communication, emotional intelligence etc. Often this is not regarded as important as the so called hard skills such as programming, scheduling, planning etc. It’s always rewarding then when you see more and more research indicating that soft…

  • Wake Up Monday

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    Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash How was the weekend? Feeling good and ready for a big productive week? Rating your performance this week as exceptional already. Time to wake up and really understand your abilities. Watch the video below and spend this week re-evaluating your abilities. Can’t see the video – click here

  • Unconsciously Incompetent

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    The title of this post is (see above – don’t want to write that out again). How many people who believe they are competent, in fact  highly competent (is there such a thing) are also not aware of some key aspects of their role or occupation because they are (see title above).  Read this recent…

  • Human Misjudgement and stupidity

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    Photo by Evan Dennis on Unsplash I recently finished re-reading a book I read over 10 years ago on ‘Understanding Stupidity’. Great book if you can find it. It explains a lot and in particular the current world situation. The video below is another attempt to understand stupidity. We talk about competency a lot in training but we…

  • Bias and decision making

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    Photo by Samuel Zeller There is a truck load of information swirling around out there at present on bias (100 plus versions) and decision making. If you need to explain this to participants it can get quite confusing. Here is a great article which simplifies what it is and what to do about it. Read the…

  • Expectations – My Thoughts

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    Photo by Agberto Guimaraes If you set the bar low, you generally get low results but you might get happiness (success). If you set the bar high and challenge barriers you may get better results but you will fail sometimes (approximately 30%). You may get happiness from this or a feeling of failure if you see…

  • Learners I Want

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    Photo by davide ragusa All of the most important things I have learnt have occurred due to a strong emotional drive. Pride, competition, envy, frustration, anger, fear of failure, fascination are just some of those emotional drivers. If you are not emotionally driven you will not learn effectively. Learning to get a qualification – no. Learning because…

  • Incompetence

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    Photo by averie woodard I have had some recent experiences of participants challenging my knowledge and experience and grossly over inflating their own expertise. Nothing unusual really. I found this great article about why incompetents think they’re awesome and it made me happy and then disturbed. Maybe I am incompetent as well? Please read the article…

  • Flexible workforce – Flexible training

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    Please read the article below. It gives a good overview of the future workforce (mainly contractors) and the way that training will need to become more agile. Read the article here.

  • 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…