The Trainer's Edge
The Trainer's Edge — TAPD
Training & Assessment Professional Development
Master the craft. Not just the compliance.
Exceptional training and facilitation is about far more than meeting a standard, completing the paperwork or delivering the content.
The Trainer's Edge is for trainers, assessors and facilitators who want to continually improve their practice, strengthen their professional judgement and create better learning experiences.
Hosted by Donna Moulds, a qualified Trainer and Assessor with more than 23 years in the field, including 13 years as an RTO CEO and experience leading vocational education and training within a maximum-security correctional facility, the podcast brings practical experience to the conversations that matter in training and assessment.
We explore training design, facilitation, learner engagement, assessment, industry currency, technology and AI, professional judgement, continuous improvement and the skills that separate simply delivering training from mastering the craft.
You'll be challenged to look beyond “We've always done it this way”, critically examine your own practice and keep developing as the profession evolves.
Whether you're beginning your journey in VET, an experienced trainer or assessor, or responsible for developing others, The Trainer's Edge is about becoming better at what you do intentionally.
Because compliance might set the standard.
Your craft determines the impact.
Listen & connect:
🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2Zxv2pe5e66gvLdKa9wWg1
🎓 Skool: https://www.skool.com/the-trainers-edge-8024/about
▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TrainingandAssessmentP_D
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thetrainersedge/
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/t_a_p_d/
The Trainer's Edge
Tasks that engage and enable learning
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As a Trainer you want to make sure that you engage your learners and learning new concepts is achieved. Group activities can at times go horribly wrong if you are not organised and don't know what the main objective is.
In this podcast I talk about really simple activities to deliver in a workshop style that are engaging, create collaboration and get results that can be immediately implemented into the workplace.
This training is very relevant right now as people transition back to work, trust and rapport need to be developed and communication needs to be as authentic as it has ever been.
Some examples are;
Tuckman's Team Development Model - Why and how the process works
Emotions - identifying and expanding your emotional vocabulary
Values - Elicit values and beliefs
Perceptual positioning - Resolve conflict by identify others beliefs, behaviors and values
Brene Brown "Dare to Lead, how she is changing the way leadership is done.
Subscribe to our podcast:
🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/training-assessment-professional-development/id1493101646?uo=4
🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2Zxv2pe5e66gvLdKa9wWg1
Connect with the community:
🎓 Skool: https://www.skool.com/the-trainers-edge-8024/about
▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TrainingandAssessmentP_D 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/trainingandassessmentPD
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/t_a_p_d/
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