Category: Training skills
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Talking with your hands
All good trainers use their hands to talk with and to make appropriate learning gestures. I often think that I am using my hands too much but I’m probably not. Wish I was as good as this guy though. can’t see it click here
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Life is learning
I get a bit sick of new terms for old things. Life long learning, experiential learning, action learning etc etc. Learning occurs all the time in so many different ways who cares what we call it. In fact let’s just call it LEARNING. This morning I was going for a run and I: was listening…
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Less is more – much less
The video below is about mathematics teaching but the principles apply to all of us. I have learnt that the less I teach and the more I allow participants to learn themselves the more effective my training is. We all talk about this but most do not do it in practice. We typically do more,…
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Trainers who have failed
A few days ago I posted an article titled Trail and Error Training. Basically I was saying that to improve as a trainer you have to try new things and expect some to fail. I came across this post which outlines 10 great failures. It is an interesting read about how some great people…
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Competency Assessment Resources
I have a number of training groups studying assessment units at present and I forgot that I had produced a number of assessment related videos over the last 12 months. I have added a new one to the library on assessment tools. Check out the others below as well. You can access all of these…
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Great Training Introductions
As promised here is our first Training Tips 56 video for the year. Sorry for the delay but it has been a very busy year so far with a number of critical career and business changes and hence I just haven’t had the time. I will be posting new videos regularly so ensure that you…
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Teaching and Money – (what’s wrong with this heading?)
Please read this news release regarding rewarding teachers with bonus payments. How many times do we need to see this debate go around, and around. A great idea in principle but there are so many flawes in the performance system that it will not reward the best teachers. It will reward a small hand full…
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Changes – they never stop
A number of you may be mentors. Often as trainers we are asked to be mentors or setup mentor programs. Right now some of you may be studying mentoring as part of the new Certificate IV TAE program. Today mentors provide expertise to less experienced individuals to help them advance their careers, enhance their education,…
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Hire for attitude, train for skill
TUDE That post heading isn’t one of my own inventions. I have borrowed it from an article I just read recently (click here). I think I have heard something like this before but the article really brings home the importance of an employee’s attitude. In particular the point that you probably can not change a…
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Workplace Learning
Workplace learning is a term we have been throwing around in Australia for quite a few years without much explanation except that the learning is done in the workplace. At present workplace learning is probably being over shadowed by the other very popular term e learning. Workplace learning is a great delivery device but careful…