Category: Education & Training Management
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Training Needs Analysis. It is SUSPECT process.
Time again for this weeks training tips 56 video. This week begins a seven part series on Training Needs Analysis (TNA). In episode 8 I covered the basic definition of what a TNA is. If you still haven’t seen this then please watch it here. This video was by far the most popular video to…
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Trainers are planners
This week’s Training Tips 56 video series is devoted to planning. Trainers can fall into three categories. Trainers who are good planners, trainers who are bad planners and trainers who think that planning is someone else’s job. Let’s make it quite clear, all trainers must be good planners and training is a highly planned process.…
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Real Client Relationships do not require contracts
Many will not agree with that statement (title above), not in this un-trusting world, but it should be true. If you really do have a solid, trusting, sharing relationship with a client, boss, student or partner then why do you need a contract? Think about that for a while. As soon as someone asks for…
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Online project management for free
One of my students asked me the other day about simple, easy to use, project management tools that enable you to keep track of various projects associated with a Diploma program that I deliver. Personally I have used software like MS Project and Excel to do the job but I have read a number of…
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Fun Follow-up
The last three training tips 56 videos have been about getting more fun into your life. By coincidence I found this great post on 30 things to do to keep from getting bored out of your skull at work. I hope that your job isn’t that bad but some of these ideas are also just…
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Australia Day and Training
I hope that everyone had a great Australia Day celebration. I spent a few hours riding my bike around observing the many and varied ways that people were gathering together to celebrate the day and enjoy each others company. What has this got to do with training and teaching? Maybe not that much but as…
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I hate RPL!
Another training tips 56 video was released last Friday. Sorry it has taken me a while to write a post on this but I was having a few computer problems. Technology! Anyway the video is part one of two clips covering the topic of recognition of prior learning. Yes, I have a few issues with…
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Future of Education?
The following link takes you to a very interesting look at education in the past as well as into the future using a sliding timeline. What do you think the future holds? I am interested in hearing your views. http://www.educationfutures.com/resources/timeline/
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More to think about
This link is to a thought provoking list of 9 signs of a losing school. These 9 signs can easily be applied to any training organisation, college, RTO and for that matter any organisation. I have seen many of these factors in a range of organisations that I have worked with. How does your organisation…
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Something to think about – Free Education?
I thought it would be a good idea to pass on this link to another blog site as it refers to an interesting comment on free education. What impact do you think that this will have on training? At present, to the best of my knowledge in the VET sector no one has released their…