“Every year, every Australian office worker uses about 10,000 sheets of A4 paper, with approximately 50 per cent of this going straight to landfill.” —Sustainable Living Guide It’s hard not…
Convert Leads Into Clients With Our Top Sales Tips For Personal Trainers
You’re great at what you do, but how do you communicate that to prospective clients to ‘seal the deal’ and sign them up? This month, we share our top tips…
Make the First Impression Count
The martial arts landscape has changed somewhat over the past 15 years—as have the expectations of its participants. Gone are the days where rustic dojos with bloodstained mats and a…
Know Your Target Audience
Time and again, we hear business people say, “yeah, yeah, I know all about target marketing”, but then proceed to market to everyone. This blanket approach generates poor results and…
Making Quality Indicators A Useful Business Tool
June is a busy time for all organisations, especially focussed around end-of-year financial reporting and contract reconciliations. It’s also the time when Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) must report their quality/performance…
Quality educators, it is more about the person than the place
The introduction of the National Quality Framework, with its emphasis on quality learning environments, has led to an abundance of workshops, articles, and resources on this topic. However, they’ve been…
Teaching to the Masses and Getting the Message Through
Teaching is a word generally used meaning to impart knowledge. A good teacher has many strategies to do this, while less successful ones may only have a single delivery method.…
Exit Strategy & Cash Flow
Planning for the end…will it be a happy one? We recently shone a spotlight on business exit strategies in the February PaySmart e-news, but I felt compelled to also dedicate…
Conversational Bullying: How to Stop Toxic Team Talk in the Staffroom
Do you have a team member who likes to shoot down your ideas in team meetings? Someone who often seems condescending or patronising? Perhaps they like firing direct questions at…
Less Noise
Welcome back to another year in VET-Land! I hope all is well in your world and that 2015 is off to a fantastic start for you. I must admit, I…