Training Development

Our learning and development approach is built around a simple principle:

"meaningful learning happens when people move beyond receiving information and are supported to understand, practise, reflect upon, and embed their learning in real-world contexts."

We use a learning journey to help learners develop knowledge, confidence, skills, behaviours, and leadership capability over time. This approach is informed by the Four Stages of Competence and Bloom's Taxonomy , ensuring that learning is designed not only to increase understanding but also to support application, behavioural change, continuous improvement, and long-term impact.

By combining these models, we create learning experiences that are engaging, practical, learner-centred, and focused on developing both individual and collective capability across the Students' Associations opportunities.

Why we take this approach

At the Students' Association, we believe learning should be transformational rather than transactional. Providing information alone rarely changes behaviour, builds confidence, or develops capability. Our aim is to create learning experiences that enable individuals to understand concepts, apply them in meaningful ways, develop confidence through practice, and ultimately embed learning into their everyday actions.

We recognise that learning is a process rather than a single event. Whether someone is developing leadership capability, communication skills, decision-making confidence, collaboration, or professional practice, meaningful development occurs when knowledge is combined with experience, reflection, and application.

Our approach is therefore designed to help learners progress from simply knowing something, to confidently doing it, and eventually becoming role models who can adapt, influence, and support others. This creates sustainable individual growth while also strengthening the collective capability of the Students' Association community.

To achieve this, our learning design combines principles from the Four Stages of Competence model and Bloom’s Taxonomy, bringing them together through our learning journey of Know It, Experience It, and Live It.

Our Learning Journey

Know It

Experience It

Live It

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Training Development Resources

Resources to assist in the design and creation of training content and materials.

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