Are you producing accurate plans? Do you have RTO’s planning days? Do you have a requirement to move rolling forecasts? Are you able to react quickly and make informed decisions? Are you drowning in spreadsheets? These are serious questions you need to be asking yourself if you are managing an RTO. Don’t become complacent and […]
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I am often asked about the RTO Systems, and what is mandatory to meet the RTO Standards. Over the years I have written a couple of blogs and also presented videos on the subject however as I have been asked this question recently by a number of people I wanted share my experience again. The
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One of the areas that gets to me is when someone tries to add “just that little bit extra” into their presentation. As someone who likes to update my skills and knowledge, I attend face to face training sessions regularly. A few years back I was a regular in front of one person who was
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Clustering units of competence for learning and assessment can assist RTOs to produce strategies that realise significant efficiency benefits for the organisation. Clustering in assessments is when a number of units of competency from the training qualification you are delivering are similar in nature and can be grouped together to address training and assessment. It the
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Get ready for your reporting of 2016 AVETMISS now. The collection window for direct reporting of 2016 AVETMISS fee-for-service activity to NCVER opened on 3 January 2017 and will close on the 28 February 2017. For RTOs reporting their fee-for-service data to a State Training Authority (STA), please note their deadline may be earlier than
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As an RTO owner one of the most important and delicate situations that you will handle is dealing with employees, particularly key employees, well no, everyone. Recently with the Australian economy recording a period of economic decline, it’s worth considering your RTO employees. Are they engaged, do they feel safe? The answer is probably No.
RTO Employees, do we create our own drama within the team? Read More »
We are always in a constant state of change, even if you think something is robust, it still is vulnerable. Recently we moved to the country. This doesn’t affect the business and servicing clients, however it certainly was a huge change for everyone involved. Change causes all sorts of emotions to appear, and often shows
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If you can learn it, it’s a skill. A talent is a group of aptitudes useful for some activities, such as to develop an RTO. An aptitude is a component of a competence to do a certain kind of work at a certain level. (sounds familiar doesn’t it?) Outstanding aptitude can be considered “talent”. An
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The other day whilst searching the internet an article caught my eye on auditing and stopping the internal audit. This post made me stop and catch my breath. It discussed how internal auditing contravenes some of W Edward Deming’s 14 points. Now I started my life reading and loving Deming, so this caused me some
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In life, and in our RTO world it almost doesn’t matter what the question is, really. Education is the answer. Everyone has access, now more than ever, to information, new learnings, tools, and whatever it takes to make a difference. Life learning remains a significant part of education. You learn something, apply the new skills
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