Customised & Tailored Solutions
With the great need for employee training, there is a huge pool of clients who need their employees trained to registered training organisation standards. However, this has also led to a great deal of customisation in how that training is delivered. Clients now want highly customised and tailored solutions in their training plans that correspond to the needs of the trainee as well as the needs of the company.
The Need for Customised and Tailored Solutions
The principal ways that businesses want their training customised include:
• Fitting the training into the work schedule is vital to many businesses. This may necessitate after-hours training or remote training that allows trainees to complete their regular work schedules.
• Creating training that helps trainees to learn in context helps them to apply their training directly to their current employment. This training is often provided in-house to allow for a hands-on training experience.
• Offering part-time training allows workers to take part in their needed training and to accommodate the training time more easily.
With flexible learning options available, an RTO becomes more competitive with the other RTOs offering training. Being flexible means offering as many ways to receive training as possible. Learning online, learning that is self-directed, and learning through more than one delivery system gives trainees the chance to choose the customised and tailored solutions that work best for them.
Keeping Your RTO Training High-Quality
To ensure that the training received by an RTO is the best possible quality, there are a number of aspects to consider. The first is to take an honest look at the staff’s skills and whether they measure up to the training they must provide. In some cases, there may be supplemental training needed by the staff members in order to provide the best training.
If a skill level gap is present, the staff may need to take advantage of a program supported by the Australian government in order to attain those skills. These developmental programs can provide needed training to staff members and help them pass that knowledge on to their trainees. Two such programs are The Australian Flexible Learning Framework and Reframing the Future. Both offer an array of resources to RTO staff members to help them stay on the cutting edge of their fields and to use the latest technology to teach what they have learned.
Using the latest technology to provide training is perhaps the best way to remain competitive. RTOs can get funding from a variety of national programs that address just this need. LearnScope is one such program that helps RTOs to integrate online learning into their training programs.
Another way to keep quality high is to form partnerships with other RTOs to enable the sharing of resources. In some cases, this includes outsourcing some parts of the training to allow them to be performed in a facility that is better equipped to deliver that training. This is also done with some high-cost parts of the training that an RTO can’t provide profitably.