Why should you invest time doing an assessment of your training organisation?

Why should you invest time doing an assessment of your training organisation?

Why should you invest time doing an assessment of your training organisation?

Investing time in assessing your training organisation can be extremely beneficial. It can help you to identify areas that need improvement, as well as any potential areas of growth. Additionally, conducting an assessment can help to ensure that your organisation is providing the best possible training experience for its students. Ultimately, this can lead to improved student satisfaction and productivity levels.

It's essential to periodically assess your training organisation to ensure that it is effective and efficient. There are many benefits to conducting an assessment, including:

  1. Identifying areas for improvement - An assessment can help you identify areas where your training organisation could be more effective. This information can then be used to make changes and improvements.
  2. Measuring progress - An assessment can also be used to measure the progress of your organisation over time. This information can be used to gauge the effectiveness of new initiatives or policies.
  3. Demonstrating accountability - An assessment can help you demonstrate accountability to stakeholders and funders. It can show that you are committed to continuously improving your organisation and its services.
  4. Generating feedback - An assessment can generate valuable feedback from students, clients, and other stakeholders. This feedback can be used to improve the quality of your organisation's services.
  5. Building capacity - An assessment can help you build capacity within your organisation. It can identify training and development needs, as well as potential areas for organisational expansion.
  6. Facilitating change - An assessment can be a catalyst for positive change within your organisation. It can help you implement new policies or procedures, or make other changes that will improve the effectiveness of your organisation.
  7. Improving communication - An assessment can improve communication between students, managers, and other stakeholders. It can help ensure that everyone is on the same page and aware of the organisation's goals and objectives.
  8. Creating a common language - An assessment can help create a common language within your organisation. This can be helpful in promoting a positive culture and facilitating organizational change.
  9. Encouraging reflection - An assessment can encourage students to reflect on their own performance and the performance of the organisation as a whole. This reflection can be used to improve future performance.
  10. Building relationships - An assessment can help build relationships between students, managers, and other stakeholders. These relationships can improve communication and cooperation, and ultimately lead to a more effective and compliant organisation.

An assessment of your training organisation can be a valuable tool for continuous improvement. It can help you identify areas for improvement, measure progress, demonstrate accountability, generate feedback, build capacity, facilitate change, improve communication, create a common language, encourage reflection, and build relationships. By periodically conducting an assessment, you can ensure that your organisation is effective and efficient.

Back to blog

Sukh Sandhu

Executive Director

Sukh has been working in the VET and Higher Education Industry for over 25 years. In this time, he has held several roles with RTO's and Higher Education Providers (HEP) including CEO roles for International Colleges and National Compliance and Quality Assurance Manager roles for several RTO's, TAFE's and Universities. Sukh has also worked for the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) as a Business Systems Project Official. Sukh is a Canadian permanent resident and Australian citizen.

Sukh has had extensive project management experience in risk management, compliance, administration and as a training consultant. He has extensive knowledge in government compliance standards and has participated in nearly one hundred audits across Australia and provided consultancy advice regarding ASQA/VRQA, TEQSA, ACPET, DET-HESG, VQF/Higher Education, ELICOS, NEAS, ANMAC, AHPRA, CRICOS, ESOS and ISO.

Sukh is a member of several independent professional organisations and government bodies including, ACPET, VELG, ACS, AITD, MARA, MIA, ISANA, APEX, IEEE, The Internet Society (Global Member), AISIP, IAMOT, ACM, OISV, APACALL, IWA, Eta Kappa Nu, EDSIG and several others.

Sukh's qualifications include two MBAs, three masters in IT and systems, a Graduate diploma of management learning, Diploma in training design and development, Diploma in vocational education training, Diploma of work, health and safety, Diploma of Quality Auditing, Advanced diploma of management, Advanced diploma in marketing, human resources, information technology, and a number of other courses and qualifications. He has been working as a lecturer and as a trainer and assessor since 1998, Sukh has been a vocal advocate of audit reforms and system centred auditing practices rather than auditor centred auditing practices for many years.