Training skills assessment and certification

What assessment services do you provide?

The right training skills, aptitudes and attitudes are essential when selecting for L&D roles. Training skills and aptitudes are closely related but distinct and should not be confused.  Skills are a backward-looking description of what a person has learned to do in the past. Aptitudes are forward-looking and describe what a person has the ability to do in the future - what they can learn to do.

Individuals who possess good interpersonal skills (eg. listening, conveying verbal and non-verbal communication well, giving and receiving feedback, communicating with diverse others and overcoming barriers to communication) are more likely to have a greater aptitude to facilitate other people’s learning.

The Training Foundation provides assessment services which cover training skills, aptitudes and attitudes.

How do you assess for training skills and aptitude?

Unique, best-practice assessable models are the heart of the TAP Learning System. Based on extensive research as to the methods, processes and techniques which work best in achieving optimal learning effectiveness, the TAP models have been continuously refined since 1998.

The Training Foundation’s training skills assessment service assesses both the trainer’s skills (eg, the logical flow and content of a training event) and also the trainer’s style which includes their interpersonal skills.

Training skills assessments can take the form of simulated training events whereby attendees deliver training sessions to each other. Alternatively, The Training Foundation also assesses genuine ‘live’ training events for a wide range of organisations.

We have deployed these training skills assessment models in a wide range of blue-chip corporate and public sector settings.  The Training Foundation is therefore able to provide clients with externally benchmarked training skills assessment reports which summarises the current performance of training professionals in quantitative terms, along with the deviation from best practice norms.

How you assess aptitude for learning and development roles?

The Training Foundation uses the DISC profilinginstrument as an important part of our own trainer recruitment and selection process and also for assisting clients with their selection of personnel for learning and development roles.  From analysis and experience we have identified a distinctive psychological profile common to excellent trainers which provides an effective matching capability for selection purposes.

Training Skills Certification options?

Where candidates demonstrate that they can surpass a pre-set training skills assessment threshold The Training Foundation can arrange for  the award of appropriate Certification from one of a range of external bodies.  However we are happy to discuss tailored options with national governments and major corporates who are seeking more specialist certification options.