The Podcast

About the Podcast

The Trainer’s Edge is a Podcast for educational trainers. It’s about being a great trainer; helping you to expand, extend, enhance, light up and optimise your training skill.

The things they didn’t teach you in your trainer training.

The priceless things you can only learn in the wild.

The delights and the horrors.

It’s about having fun, the tips and tricks and strategies for engaging students; for inspiring curiosity, and lighting up imaginations.

And of course helping them pass the assessment.

The Trainer’s Edge
Series 1

0. The Trainer's Teaser

The Trainer’s Edge Podcast is coming soon. It’s called “The Trainer’s Edge” because training takes skills. The Trainer’s Edge will help you put a sharp edge on those skills, to expand, extend, and enhance them and make you a great trainer.

1. Inside the Trainer's Brain

Graham drills into the Trainer’s brain to reveal the ideal training mindset and discovers that it’s not about the Trainer, it’s about the students, it’s about training as work rather than a job; and he looks at building rapport, the value of life experience, and training adults. And more …

2. First Things Second

You never get a second chance to make a first impression. But that’s not the whole truth. Graham talks about the importance of how you make an entrance, how creating real value at the start of Day One can colour the whole program. And much more …

3. Soft Solutions for the Hard Parts

So you’re all rapported up with the students. But sometimes there are students who can be difficult, disruptive, or aggressive. Or just restless. How do you handle that? And what about when the whole class is confused? The simple pacing trick that works a treat.

4. Coaching & The Pumpkin Principle

You’re sure to come across students who need a bit of coaching. How do you do that? Here are some techniques that are simple and you don’t need to know their private thoughts to help them. The story of how Ali turned into a prince!

5. The Whiteboard & the Devil's Tool

The serious work in front of the whiteboard. Inspiring, motivating, empowering. Powerfully contextualising elements at the individual level. Using the whiteboard and when you don’t have to. And the horrors of Powerpoint.

6. The Joy of Paperwork & Other Horrors

How to make friends with the paperwork. What it really means, and learning to enjoy it.
Working with (and within) the regulations: why get a second and third opinion? Using learning theories without hurting your brain.

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Meet the Host

Graham Giblin

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Graham has been a trainer since 2007 and he’s passionate about it.
He has two TAE Diplomas, a TAE Cert IV, and a coaching qualification.

He has over almost 50,000 student hours of face to face training and a 90% student approval rating,
He has worked in television, including as a writer, director, producer and Executive Producer.
He worked in education as a television producer/writer and has been Training Manager for an RTO.
For a long time he has wanted to share the fun and what he’s learnt through study, experimenting and trial and error that you can only learn through years of experience, or if someone like Graham is willing to share the secrets with you.

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