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.

Current evidence for your assessment

Current evidence is important in determining if a learner is competent. When considering what is Current evidence you need to consider if it reflects current industry practice. In assessment, currency relates to the age of the evidence presented by a candidate to demonstrate that they are still competent. Competency requires demonstration of current performance, so

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This journey is a joint journey – you can’t just sit back and watch it happen

Once again the VET environment changes; this time the new Trainer and Assessor TAE requirements. So I was reading an article written by a fellow consultant about the new requirements. My take on the article was he was frustrated that the new TAE requirements (from 2019) are not stringent enough. I get where he is

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Complaints are not the worst thing that can happen in your RTO.

Complaints are not the worst thing that can happen. Sometimes they can be considered as negative and unwelcome, and they can create stress and bad feeling. Complaints are also an opportunity to put things right and learn for the future too. It is the way you look at them that counts. You can choose to stress about the

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Is it excitement of setting up your RTO, tension or fear?  

Excitement Excitement gets the juices running, and motivation to do all the right work for your application and auditors visit. Fear shuts people down, and stops the dreams. It can put us into a freeze situation; where we stop everything, or a flight situation; where  we run away from what we are doing. In both

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Your comments are requested

Training Regulator Annual Strategy – Stakeholder Advice Request WA’s vocational education and training regulator, TAC (Training Accreditation Council) would like to advise stakeholders of the opportunity to provide their feedback regarding current concerns and/or emerging issues in the training sector. Committed to maintaining a high quality vocational education and training (VET) system The Training Accreditation Council

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Amount of Training – Complicated problems rarely require magical explanations

Amount of Training One clue that someone doesn’t understand a problem is that they need a large number of variables and factors to explain it. However if you turn a complex situation into something overly simple, it shows ignorance of how the system works. The VET sector is constantly seeing people questioning what is the

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Is practice being included in your RTO training?

  One of the key areas I see missing in RTO’s training is the way people provide training. They are cutting out time, and therefore cutting out the value of practicing new skills. Remember those Adult Learning principles? The ones we learnt during our Training and Assessment qualification? Well they are key to understanding your

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