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.
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The Trainer's Edge
Traps Trainers Fall Into
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Episode Notes
Season #5, Episode #2
Traps Trainers Fall Into
As trainers we can fall into several traps, have you?
Trap #1
Wanting to deliver a program and spending weeks developing without going to the market and seeing the need. We can have many great programs that clients don’t want to buy, or students don’t want to attend. Knowing your target audience makes it easy to go to market and get some feedback on the need so you can develop what is needed and contextualise for greater impact.
Trap #2
Becoming complacent with our delivery as we know the content so well that we forget that the student doesn’t know what they don’t know, and we can rush over content. Having someone sit in on a session with their student hat on so we can receive constructive feedback about our delivery, content, timing and if we are hitting the mark. The feedback loop is always beneficial.
And more so tune in for this short podcast.
Growth doesn’t happen naturally, it happens intentionally and is accessible to everyone!
Book picks for the month
Traction – Gino Wickman
Livewired – David Eagleman
Co-Active Coaching 3rd Edition – Henry Kimsey-House & Karen Kimsey-House
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Connect with the community:
🎓 Skool: https://www.skool.com/the-trainers-edge-8024/about
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AFFILIATE DISCLOSURE: My podcast episode notes may contain affiliate links. If you purchase something through these links you won't pay more, however I may receive a commission which enables me to earn a living, keep the channel going and at times purchase a nice bottle of Prosecco to celebrate you awesome listeners. 🥂