Communication Key to Engagement
How’s your company doing? Are employees happy — really? Many organisations are struggling to develop a culture that’s compelling enough to engage and retain their talent. A 2012 Gallup study of workplaces in 140 countries found 87 percent of workers are...
How Much Is Digital Illiteracy Costing Your RTO?
In spite (or perhaps because) of rapid and ongoing technological advances, many individuals today are inadequately prepared to leverage available tools and technologies to communicate and collaborate with their colleagues and external stakeholders. Traditionally, the Digital Divide was about access...
Thinking Inside the Box May Actually Solve More Problems
Almost everyone in the business world is familiar with the brainstorming maxim: think outside the box. However, a recent study conducted at the University of Pittsburgh found ideas that were closely related to a problem helped form the most viable...
Managing the Virtual Workforce
The phrases used to describe the newest phenomenon in the global workforce are numerous: working from home, telecommuting, remote job, virtual employee. All of these terms describe the ability to work outside of a traditional, co-located office environment. The parameters of the working arrangements will differ...
New Roles Emerge for Vocational Education and Training
To prepare for the future workplace, the vocational education function must prepare to make five foundational shifts. During the past decade, vocational education has changed dramatically. Not only have the function’s objectives become more aspirational, but the way it influences...
Crafting Vital Coaching Questions
What do extremely good coaches do? They energize, ask, listen, invite, and equip others to develop themselves and achieve their personal and professional best. How does it work? Coaching is all about building and sustaining high-quality links. Specifically, the coach...
10 Steps to Managing Learning Projects
Many trainers and training coordinators are unexpected project managers. Although you never dreamed you’d be a project manager, suddenly your whole work life revolves around projects. You’re the manager on some of these projects, some you participate in, and you...
Building Blocks of Effective Collaboration
Collaboration is more than an activity. It is a process with associated behaviors that can be taught and developed—a process governed by a set of norms and behaviors that maximize individual contribution while leveraging the collective intelligence of everyone involved....
Industry Driven VET Reform
In the framework of the current VET Reform, the Hon Ian Macfarlane, Minister of Industry intends to put the VET Sector in the driver’s seat. “The era of training for training’s sake is over” the minister stated. The announcements to...
Trainers Development is Essential, Not Optional
Trainers’ training and development is essential for your organisation’s success. It is important to ensure your trainers’ skills, abilities and knowledge levels are being regularly updated. There are a variety of reasons for trainers’ training and development, including (but not...