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The Trainer's Edge
by Donna Moulds
The Trainer's Edge — TAPD Training & Assessment Professional Development Master the craft. Not just the compliance. Exceptional training and facilitation is about far more than meeting a standard, completing the paperwork or delivering the content. The Trainer's Edge is for trainers, assessors and facilitators who want to continually improve their practice, strengthen their professional judgement and create better learning experiences. Hosted by Donna Moulds, a qualified Trainer and Assessor with more than 23 years in the field, including 13 years as an RTO CEO and experience leading vocational education and training within a maximum-security correctional facility, the podcast brings practical experience to the conversations that matter in training and assessment. We explore training design, facilitation, learner engagement, assessment, industry currency, technology and AI, profess
Episodes
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Move Into 2027 With Intention | 10 Questions Every Trainer Should Ask
What if the biggest improvement you make in 2027 isn't another qualification, another program or another piece of technology but the way you approach your own professional practice? In this episode of The Trainer's Edge, Donna Moulds returns to the microphone and invites trainers, assessors and...
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5 Strategies for Grabbing Attention in the First 5 Minutes of Your Zoom Session
Are You Facilitating on Zoom or Just Presenting at People? If you've ever been on a Zoom session where cameras are off, everyone's muted, and you genuinely have no idea if anyone is still there this episode is for you. In this episode Donna Moulds draws on 23 years of training and facilitation...
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The Trainer's Edge - More Value, Bigger Community
The Relaunch: More Value, Bigger Community, Your Edge Just Got Sharper This is not just another episode, this is a new chapter. After 22,000+ downloads across eight seasons, The Trainer's Edge - TAPD is levelling up. In this Season 9 opener, Donna Moulds shares exactly what's changing, why it...
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End-of-Year Reset: A Real Plan to Kick-Start 2026
🎙️ Training & Assessment Professional Development Setting Yourself Up for the Year Ahead An Aligned, Practical Reset for Trainers & Assessors As the year comes to a close, this episode invites trainers, assessors, and education professionals to intentionally set themselves up for the year ahead...
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Compartmentalizing & Using Your Emotional Intelligence to Stay on Track
Compartmentalizing & Emotional Intelligence: How to Stay on Track When Life Gets Messy Episode Description: Ever had one of those days where one bad moment threatens to derail everything? A tough conversation before a meeting. A personal issue that bleeds into work. A challenge that sits heavy on...
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Get Your Ego Out of the Way – Be of Service as a Trainer
🎧 Podcast: Training & Assessment Professional Development with Donna Moulds Are you walking into your training sessions to impress, or to make an impact? In this powerful episode, Donna explores what it truly means to show up as a trainer who leads with intention, humility, and service. Too…
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How to Stay Resilient in a Toxic Workplace
🎙️ Episode: How to Stay Resilient in a Toxic Workplace Toxic workplaces can leave you feeling drained, disrespected, and disconnected—but you don’t have to lose yourself in the chaos. In this episode, we're diving deep into what it means to stay resilient when you're surrounded by gossip,...
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The Crisis of Undervalued Training: What’s at Stake for Future Generations
In this thought-provoking episode, we explore something many of us in learning and development have felt but rarely say out loud: Training is being undervalued—and the consequences are far-reaching. With workplaces shifting toward short-form, micro-learning and compliance-focused modules, we’re...
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Create Your Vision - Thoughts Become Things
Creating a Vision for Your Future with Gratitude and Visualization Segment 1: Understanding the Power of Mindset Before we get into the "how," let’s talk about the "why." Life can throw challenges our way – setbacks, disappointments, and moments of doubt. It’s easy to fall into a negative…
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Understand and Embrace Fear
Understanding Fear FEAR (False Evidence Appearing Real) is a natural, instinctive response to perceived threats or danger. It activates the "fight, flight, or freeze" response, preparing your body and mind to respond to potential risks. While fear often has a negative connotation, it serves a...
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When the Trainer needs Coaching
Segment 1: Recognizing the Need to Train Yourself Ask yourself: Am I feeling less motivated, stuck, or overwhelmed? Do I find myself going through the motions rather than feeling inspired? Am I struggling to adapt to new requirements, technologies, or expectations? Segment 2: Using…
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Conscious Competence - The 4 stages and how to implement
Welcome to The Trainers Edge Podcast. I'm Donna Moulds, and today we're exploring the Conscious Competence Ladder a powerful framework for guiding learners from ignorance to mastery. Introduced by Noel Burch in the 1970s, this model has four key stages every trainer and assessor needs to...
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Don't drag your sorry self into 2024
It's that time of year, you know, that time where if you were fortunate to have a break then you at some point will be returning to work, your job, your business your passion hopefully. So how can you return to work without feeling that holiday hangover? If you are already back at work and hating...
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A Time to Reflect as we end 2023 and begin 2024
Season #6, Episode #4 A Time to reflect As we bring 2023 to an end and we move into 2024, now is a great time to reflect, in this episode I share some tips to use and reflect on the year that has been and what you want for 2024 Family Work/Business Spiritually Friends For goodness' sake don’t set...
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Mentoring - Share your knowledge
Season #6, Episode #3 Mentoring - Share your knowledge. As Coaches and Mentors, we want our students to get the most from our sessions and when we understand why shared knowledge is important to are more willing to share skills and attributes that we have learned along the way. We can be more...
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Adult Learners and Principles that are the key to learning.
Season #6, Episode #2 Adult Learners and Principles that are the key to learning. Learning Face to Face will always be a desire of many adult learners. As educators we want our student to get the most from the our sessions and when we understand the Adult Learning Principles we can be more...
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Welcome back it's 2023
Season #6, Episode #1 Welcome to 2023 Firstly let me say I am so glad you are here again and thank you for joining me again in a new year. I look forward to doing a podcast each month and making this year the best it can possibly be. In this podcast i just want to say thank you and share some of...
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Are You a Crappy Trainer?
Episode Notes Season #6, Episode #1 Are you a crappy trainer I recently spoke to a friend about her experience in her recent Training & Assessment course, it made me furious and prompted some questions to you, my listeners. Never forget this is your clients learning journey not yours! What is…
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Trainer and Assessor Currency
Trainer and Assessor Currency In this podcast we talk about why currency is important in your career, what does currency look like, how to stay current, and what are the pitfalls if you don’t stay current, this can effect your financially and professional. Make a plan for 2022 so you can stay...
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Traps Trainers Fall Into
Episode Notes Season #5, Episode #2 Traps Trainers Fall Into As trainers we can fall into several traps, have you? Trap #1 Wanting to deliver a program and spending weeks developing without going to the market and seeing the need. We can have many great programs that clients don’t want to buy, or...
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How to create a powerful Vision Board
Episode Notes Season #5, Episode #1 How to Create a Powerful Vision Board Creating a Vision Board is a powerful way to design the year and life you desire, in this podcast I’m going to share with you how you put together your own vision board and how you can do this with your family to get…
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Are you up for the challenge?
Episode Notes Season #4, Episode #9 Are you up for the challenge? This is our last Podcast for 2020 and I am so grateful as we just hit 1500 downloads whoo!! Take time to reflect on this past year, its easy to get caught up in the madness that has happened but remember not to get caught up in…
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Kick FEAR to the kerb and thrive in 2021
Episode Notes Season #4, Episode #8 Kick FEAR to the kerb and thrive in 2021 FEAR is an acronym for False Evidence Appearing Real and its one you should always remember because it forms a story in our head and holds us back from great stuff, opportunities, and life in general. In this episode I...
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Professional Development Plan to Kick-Start 2021
Episode Notes Season #4, Episode #7 Professional Development Plan to Kick-Start 2021 Now is the time to start your professional Development planning and kick off a new year fresh, organised and ready to make a difference. Reflect on what went well for 2020 and what you would like to change for…
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Accountability Works Both Ways
Episode Notes Season #4, Episode #6 Accountability Works Both Ways As a trainer and/or a manager you play a massive role in how students experience learning especially when they have previously had bad experiences in their childhood at school and in their career. Accountability is a way of…
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Dealing with Difficult Students
Episode Notes Season #4, Episode #5 Dealing with Difficult Students After 17 years in the industry I know that at some point going to have to deal with difficult students. Its just part of the journey and this helps you grow and develop your skills. What is a difficult student? Why are they...
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Workshop Activities and Icebreakers - The Benefits
Workshop Activities and Icebreakers - The benefits are HUGE, let me reiterate the benefits are really huge for the people attending your workshops and also for you as the trainer. Lets start with benefits of an ICE Breaker at the start of your training session / Workshop As people come into the...
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Use Feedback to Improve your Skills
As a trainer we know how important feedback is even if it makes us feel a little uncomfortable at times. As we head toward the end of the year we know that training slows down if you are in VET and even if you do non accredited training for Government Departments this also slows down. Take the…
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Tasks that engage and enable learning
As a Trainer you want to make sure that you engage your learners and learning new concepts is achieved. Group activities can at times go horribly wrong if you are not organised and don't know what the main objective is. In this podcast I talk about really simple activities to deliver in a…
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The Journey Out is In - With Nathan Hawken
In this 5 part series we are going to share such some really powerful tools and insights. Nathan talks to us about mindfulness, awakening your consciousness and healing. As a very successful Coach he shares his insights into the journey of self discovery and going inward to discover your true…
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Coaching a student to realign focus
If you are a Coach, Mentor, Trainer and Assessor you know that its not easy to keep clients on the path to success. It's our job to support and encourage students to progress but this needs to be on their terms. Helping students realign and get back on track isn't a complicated process. I have...
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How NLP is a game changer - My Guest Nathan Hawken
I sat down with Nathan Hawken all the way from Dublin and what a conversation we had. Nathan is a successful Coach and Entrepreneur who teaches NLP at the Practitioner and master Practitioner level. Here we talk about how NLP is a game changer and how this has impacted his life and journey as a...
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Adult Learning Principles - The Art of Story Telling
As educators we want our student to get the most from the our sessions and when we understand the Adult Learning Principles we can be more conscious about planning our session to include this and encourage others to share. It doesn't matter whether you are delivering face to face or via ZOOM you...
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Confessions of a recovering multi-tasker
Multi-tasking - I used to be so proud to say I am an excellent multi-tasker but the truth is that's not really an achievement. I would pride myself on being able to do multiple things and i would constantly allow myself to be interrupted thinking I can just go back to what I was doing after I…
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Change - How to help your team through Change
Change is inevitable in every organisation and with the current climate we are transitioning through change and moving back to the workplace, working from home and we have to do day to day life differently. Not every one copes with change the same and as leaders we can help our team cope with...
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Authentic Conversations
"We were born to be real not perfect" A life without authentic conversations is like a life without bearing your soul. As an educator I am always thinking about language and how we can lift people with our language, or how we can contribute to other peoples lives in a genuine way. One of the ways...
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Find your passion and make it purposeful.
If you haven't found your passion yet then I can wait to share some insights with you and maybe help you find yours. I have had many discussions over the years where people ask me how did I know what my purpose was, where did this come from, and how will I know what mine is? Its actually…
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Dimensions of Competence
Understanding the key aspects of the Dimensions of Competence can greatly enhance your ability to get to the assessment stage more confidently and have a greater understanding of the skills gaps that your participants have at the current stage they are at. Dimensions of Competence include: ~ Task...
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Supporting your students online learning
How you support your students online is vital to their progress and ultimately their success. In this podcast I talk about One on One support and group support, the overall benefits and how this can provide your students with the connection they need especially when they are isolated and need to...
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Utilise Technology to Support Clients
These are truly uncertain times but you have an opportunity to be able to support your clients through this turmoil. Use this time to learn and grow in new ways that will enhance everyone's experience. When you utilise technology your clients can be more supported than ever before. In this…
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Emotional Intelligence tools for greater connection
Understanding what Emotional Intelligence is and how we can develop and apply these skills to have greater awareness for ourselves personally is really exciting. Knowing how to develop a much deeper connection with our Clients, Family and in a social context facilitates you to start to…
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Professional Development for Career Advancement
As a trainer it is vital to participate in continued professional development, its a challenge to work and train and always be on top of legislation or industry changes. In this episode I am speaking with Susan Bennett from Total WHS Solutions about how she stays current in her industry and how…
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Successful Preparation
80-90% of the successful delivery is in the preparation, in this podcast I talk about some tips to ensuring your preparation is on point for your target audience. Support the show Subscribe to our podcast: 🎧 Apple Podcasts:...
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Introduction - Training & Assessment Professional Development
Hi and welcome to Training & Assessment Professional Development Podcast I am extremely grateful you have joined us and thanks for tuning in today…………. Training & Assessment Professional Development is about giving back to the community of Trainers and those wanting to enter the industry. I love...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Trainer's Edge — TAPD Training & Assessment Professional Development
Master the craft. Not just the compliance.
Exceptional training and facilitation is about far more than meeting a standard, completing the paperwork or delivering the content.
The Trainer's Edge is for trainers, assessors and facilitators who want to continually improve their practice, strengthen their professional judgement and create better learning experiences.
Hosted by Donna Moulds, a qualified Trainer and Assessor with more than 23 years in the field, including 13 years as an RTO CEO and experience leading vocational education and training within a maximum-security correctional facility, the podcast brings practical experience to the conversations that matter in training and assessment.
We explore training design, facilitation, learner engagement, assessment, industry currency, technology and AI, profess
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