Who should do this Course?

Contractors and tradespersons who are responsible for training apprentices or trainees in the workplace. The course will give participants skills in stimulating and motivating learning. The skills learnt should create an interesting learning environment by providing skilled mentoring and coaching particularly targeting the training of apprentices and trainees.

What are the Course Objectives?

At the completion of this course participants will be able to:

• identify what motivates learning at the workplace;
• use an appropriate learning methodology in mentoring a trainee;
• encourage learning at the workplace;
• use mentoring techniques in motivating trainee's learning.

Course Content

A study of recent statistical data of trainees in Australia

Module 1: How People Learn;

• The Motivation to Learn

Module 2: Mentor Skills

• What is Mentoring?
• Mentors Defined
• What Skills do Mentors Need?

Module 3: The OPAL method of demonstration learning

Assessment

Submission of self assessment questions.