Merinda Smith

Merinda is an RTO Business mentor, trainer and consultant with over 20 years’ experience, assisting thousands of trainers, assessors and RTO personnel. Founder of F4 Solutions and now RTO Mentor. Renowned for her down-to-earth and passionate delivery of workshops and coaching, empowering you to gain the skills, knowledge and tools you need for your RTO to meet compliance and gain business.

Are you considering offering degrees within your RTO?

Public and private training providers share their experiences and the lessons they learnt in offering higher education qualifications as well as continuing to deliver VET in this new research. It finds that providers generally offer degrees in niche markets, those in which they have existing strengths and which will set them apart from other providers. […]

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Endorsement of CHC Community Services & HLT Health Training Packages

The Community Services and Health Industry Skills Council (CS&HISC) welcomes the endorsement of the CHC Community Services & HLT Health Training Packages by the Australian Industry and Skills Committee on the 27 July 2015. The new qualifications reflect the changing needs of industry and the structure and design of most units has been modified. National

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Do you really have what it takes to become financially free?

I was sitting in the airport lounge early one morning waiting for my flight, sitting next to some fly in fly out workers. They were not traveling as a group, however did know one another. So as I tried to concentrate on other matters, the conversation near me turned to the cutting of resources and

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RTO Compliance Tip

When preparing your Assessments you need to consider benchmarks to provide rigour in the assessment judgement process. Benchmarks for practical activities must necessarily be broad enough to allow for variations in the precise task being undertaken and any variations. The benchmarks must include observable behaviours – these are things like attitude, aptitude, knowledge of each

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Lead Validation Workshops – Perth, Sydney and Brisbane

Lead Assessment Validation professional development Become a lead validator within your RTO. Are you a key person within your RTO and you need to update your skills in leading validation sessions? Are you in the process of setting up an RTO and wish to have a better understanding of the compliance around assessment and validation? Have

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