Category: professional development
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Diploma TAA & Diploma Government (Project Management)
For those who are interested I will be delivering an elearning skill set from the Diploma of Training and Assessment and the full Diploma Government (Project Management) program at Learning Lab which is located right next to Central Station in Sydney. The best thing is both programs are subsidised by the government and hence you…
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Solving Problems
Solving problems is a big part of what trainers do. I feel like that is all I have be doing this week. It starts with how do we find out what our people and organisation need ie skills, knowledge, behaviours? Problem. Then we move to what sort of training can we provide to remove the…
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Presentation skills
Simple little post today just like this simple little video on how to create an effective presentation. Hope this helps everyone who is struggling to get it right. Me included.
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Can’t Cope with Computers?
Maybe it’s you, maybe it’s a training participant, maybe it’s your parents or a family member but if you can’t cope with computers and just don’t know how to use them or you don’t know how to begin to explain to someone else how to use them, try this excellent and growing website setup by…
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Job Satisfaction
When I was younger I thought that the whole point of work was to get paid as much as possible and to do as little as possible. This view changed over time and gradually as my working life took on a range of different jobs, roles and organisations I realised that even though I had…
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No more bad presentations
A lot of my students and many others are tackling the competency unit Make a presentation as part of their Certificate IV in TAE. For some this is their first, real, out in front of a strange audience, presentation and that can be a daunting task. Here is a good link to some very good…
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Maybe they are listening?
It appears that the Education Department in NSW maybe going to allow school students to access social media sites like Facebook etc. I wonder if that will also apply to TAFE students who are generally over 18 but are also screened out of basically any social site except for Linkedin and YouTube. This is very…
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Virtual Worlds and Training.
Elearning is a difficult concept for many people to get their head around. Introduce the concept of virtual worlds into the elearning mix and you see most trainers’ eyes glaze over. It’s just a little too far out there for most of them. It is easy to understand why if you haven’t actually experienced a…
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Professional Development
Every trainer needs to include at least some professional development in each year’s calendar. That may not be of a formal type like a seminar or an actual training course but can include reading a few good texts, reading some useful blogs and listening to some related podcasts. I came across two good seminars this…
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Project Management Software (e-learning tool of the week)
I have written in previous posts that all good trainers need to have at least some basic project management skills. The whole process of training from TNA to actual delivery is a quite a complex project. On the really big training roll-outs a full on project management approach is required. The standard software in the…