RippleEd

🤔 I’ve been doing a bit of comparing myself to others and other businesses lately.
 
📉 Partly because of the economic climate. Like many small businesses, we’d love more work.
 
👷‍♀️Partly because imposter syndrome still pops up from time to time (I’m a woman with an education background, often working with very male-heavy trades).
 
📃 And partly because a business recently asked me for a one-pager that answered a simple question:
 
❓ Why would we choose RippleEd instead of a technical training provider?
 
Here’s where I landed, for now.
 
👷‍♂️ A technical trainer or subject matter expert is exactly that.

They teach the skills and knowledge they’ve learnt on-job. Technical experts bring deep technical knowledge.
 
is different.
We facilitate, more than train. We:

✅ get to know each person quickly - their experience, skills and knowledge

✅ design a wide range of learning activities

✅ include industry specific, realistic scenarios and problems

✅ involve everyone in discussions and activities through open questions

✅ embed human skills (communication, judgement, decision-making) alongside technical know-how

✅ assess competence through questions, activities and online quizzes, not lots of writing.
 
With over five years designing VET programmes, assessments, and learning resources across multiple industries, AND over 20 years in leadership and training advisory roles in NZ and internationally - we understand both the technical environment and the human reality of work.
 
RippleEd helps organisations get more value from the training, experience, and expertise they already have.
 
If your challenge isn’t “how do we teach the task?” but rather
“how do we get people on the same page, communicating clearly, and applying this safely at work?”

then RippleEd is likely a good fit.
 

Very grateful to the Canadian Association for Prior Learning Assessment for allowing RippleEd to speak at their conference via Zoom this month!

💻 It would have been amazing to be there in person, but online is the next best thing.

🧑‍🌾 The title of the conference is "Recognising Prior Learning in Rural Spaces." And as our current Food and Fibre Centre of Vocational Excellence research project is based on RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning) in the food and fibre industry in New Zealand, we thought this conference would be a perfect one to attend.

A big thanks to Wendy Cato, our Australian RPL expert 'cousin' who informed us about the CAPLA conference and will also be speaking.

We're looking forward to the end of May and bringing back lots of international knowledge and learnings about RPL!



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🤝 Networking Opportunities! Connect with fellow professionals and expand your network at the CAPLA Conference 2025.

This is your chance to meet like-minded individuals and share experiences in the field of prior learning assessment. Learn more at our website

🗓️ Date: May 26-28, 2025
📍 Location: St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia

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🤔 Why does a business invest in their work-based trainers?

Since working with Competenz to faciliate employer workshop about training at work, I’ve been thinking about this a lot.

🤔 Why is it that some businesses value training and development? And others see it as a tick box?

Below is my take on the potential issues and opportunities that exist around .

If a business is focused on developing technical skills, the reasons for investing in training and development are probably:

1. To meet compliance requirements
2. To meet legal regulations
3. To reduce skills and knowledge gaps

However, if a business is moving their focus to their people, people skills and business growth, the reasons for investing in training and development (and on-job training) are more likely to be:

4. To grow the team
5. To attract and retain talented workers
6. Succession planning
7. Innovation

👷🏽Which sized businesses are most likely to invest in people focused training?
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✅ Effectice work-based training.
✅ Programme and course design.
✅ RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning)