Help TTAs Easily Access the Industry Skills and Knowledge They Need
Last updated 27/10/26
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RTO Engage
The engage tools and the checklist of recommended tasks help RTOs schedule and support
TTAs to maintain industry currency, with the help of employers.
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You Will Find:
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Tool: Project Plan
To support collaboration, manage workload, gain stakeholder support and complete tasks on time
After partnership planning meeting with employers
Moderate
Less than 60 minutes, some preparation required
- Download and save the tool
- Update the plan timeline, including dates and number of weeks
- Add in agreed actions and recommended tasks from checklists. Descriptions can be high level or more detailed
- Use the fill tool to colour cells to show when actions and tasks will take place (may require more than one week)
- Edit the tool to remove or add rows and columns as needed
- An example project plan is provided in the tab marked 'Example'
Tool: Develop industry currency schedule
Coordinate, communicate and support planned currency opportunities
After the project plan is created
Intensive
More than 90 minutes, preparation required
- Download and save the tool
- Fill out the agreed industry currency opportunities
- Confirm with TTAs:
a. which agreed opportunities they want to access
b. supports required to access chosen opportunities
c.scheduling considerations
- Update the schedule to match discussions with TTAs
- Share with TTAs and employers and update as needed
- Edit the template to remove or add space as needed
Tool: Share Relevant Employee Information
Help employers mitigate WH&S risk and protect TTAs wellbeing and safety
Before the first currency opportunity takes place
Quick
Less than 20 minutes, minimal preparation required
- Download and save the tool
- Confirm with employers required employee information for TTAs to access agreed industry currency opportunities
- Ask TTAs to individually share required employee information
- Collate and update tool with all relevant employee information
- Share with employers and update as needed
- Ask TTAs to individually share required employee information
Tool: Define measurement approach
Build TTAs and employers confidence they will meet expectations with a standardised approach
Before first currency opportunity takes place
Intensive
More than 90 minutes, preparation required
- Download and save the tool
- Work with relevant stakeholders to define standardised:Use previously prepared draft documents to complete:
a. volume (amount) and capability (impact) indicatorsDraft industry currency and partnership goals
b. reflection questions
c. ways the organisation can support TTAs to apply industry currency
- Create a concise summary for TTAs will use this summary to create their individual learning and reflection plans
- Create a concise summary for employers to help them confirm TTAs participation, support employers to engage in reflective discussions with TTAs if relevant and have visibility of how industry currency is translated within the RTO
- Edit the template to remove or add space as needed
Tool: Reflect on Partnerships
To actively maintain a strong partnership by identifying what is working well and where there are processes or other improvement opportunities
Before collaboration meetings with employers
Quick
Less than 20 minutes, minimal preparation required
- Download and save the tool
- Work with relevant stakeholders to reflect on and discuss key topics, including:
a. What is working well
b. Impact of currency opportunities completed so far
c. Where there are opportunities to improve processes, collaboration, supports for TTAs or other considerations
- Work with relevant stakeholders to identify possible solutions
- Edit the template to remove or add space as needed
The Engage Checklist Includes Recommended Tasks that You Can Track Independently or With Employers
There are two checklists. One for RTOs to support internal collaboration and one for RTOs and employers to support partnership collaboration. Download and edit the checklist to suit your RTO’s needs.
- The recommended tasks will help your RTO:
- Work with employers to schedule industry currency opportunities
- Give TTAs guidance on your RTOs preferred approach to reflection, application and demonstration of industry currency
- Support employers to confirm TTAs participation and engage in reflective discussions with TTAs if relevant
I want to track tasks independently and collaborate internally ...
I want to collaborate with employers...
1. Create a project plan
- Develop a project plan that includes agreed actions, recommended tasks from checklists and timing
- Share plan with relevant internal stakeholders and employers to coordinate industry currency opportunities
- Use regular collaboration meetings with employers to make sure plan updated as needed
2. Develop industry currency schedule
- Confirm agreed industry currency opportunities with employers, including number of TTA participants, timing and other scheduling considerations
- Confirm what each TTA would like to access and whether they require any supports to fully participate
- Complete the currency schedule, including details of participating TTAs
- Set up regular check in meetings with TTAs
- Share with employers and work together to update the schedule as needed
3. Share relevant employee information
- Confirm employee information sheet tool includes everything employers need to know
- Ask TTAs to provide required employee information
- Share with relevant employers and update as needed
4. Define measurement approach
- Work with relevant stakeholders to draft, refine and finalise a standardised measurement approach including:
- volume and capability indicators
- reflection topics and questions
- application opportunities
- Create a concise summary for TTAs will use this summary to create their individual learning and reflection plans
- Create a concise summary for employers to help them confirm TTAs participation, support employers to engage in reflective discussions with TTAs if relevant and have visibility of how industry currency is translated within the RTO
5. Reflect on partnerships
- Work with relevant stakeholders to:
- identify and discuss partnership progress, currency opportunities and possible improvements
- develop proposed improvements
- Share suggestions with employers in regular collaboration meetings
- Implement agreed improvements
Industry Currency Matters
Industry currency refers to the industry skills and knowledge that enable workers to deliver high-quality outcomes. In practical terms, it includes:
- a current working knowledge of practices, sector reforms, legal and regulatory standards
- understanding of industry changes impact operating environments and service delivery
- understanding of changing client expectations and needs
Industry currency helps TTAs build students’ knowledge and capabilities beyond step-by-step skills or processes.
Industry currency helps TTAs build students’ knowledge and capabilities beyond step-by-step skills or processes.
Industry currency helps employers hire job-ready graduates and supports workers to succeed from day one with the right level of guidance.
Matt and Arjun, the Head of Learning and Development, develop a brief proposal to deliver Work, Health & Safety training for employers - an area of training that is both crucial and difficult to build staff engagement with.
Matt works out which industry currency opportunities TTAs across the RTO are most interested in. He will share this information with employers when they discuss feasible opportunities to implement.
During their internal planning meeting, Matt captures senior stakeholders views on governance. They decide to set up monthly status reports and to maintain a decision log for each partnership.
Following the internal planning meeting, Matt updates the project charter, ready for discussion with employers.
Here are a Few Real-life Examples of How You Might Use the Prepare Tools.
Here are a few real-life examples of how you might use the prepare tools.
These examples are not exhaustive and may look different in practice, based on your organisation’s work environment.
Industry Currency Empowers Students
TTAs with industry currency deliver engaging training that prepares students for their vocation.
Industry currency helps students think critically, use sound judgement and apply skills in practice.
Tell me more →There are many effective ways to extend industry skills and knowledge
This includes opportunities such as volunteering, temporary or supervised shifts and scheduled community engagements with clients.
This includes active participation in industry advisory groups, scheduled discussions with leaders or subject matter experts and collaborating with employers on a relevant project.
This includes completing an training course hosted by employers or attending professional development courses or conferences.
This includes actively participating in new or existing industry or sector communities of practice and planned discussions with internal colleagues.
Industry Currency Empowers Students
TTAs need support from RTOs and employers to update their industry skills and knowledge and set VET students up for success.
In the prepare stage, RTOs and employers have access to related tools and checklists. The checklists include recommended tasks to support collaboration between RTOs, employers and TTAs.
Note: Priya, Matt and Mei-Lin's fictional roles, responsibilities and included examples are not exhaustive. Roles, responsibilities and actual tasks may look different in practice.
Tell me more →
- Determine industry currency and partnership goals
- Define value proposition for employers
- Define partnership and logistics approach
- Prepare a project charter
- Identify industry currency requirements
- Identify individual currency requirements
Determine industry currency and partnership goals
- Plan for potential risks
- Define value proposition for RTOs
- Prepare a project charter
- Summarise recent industry changes
Frequently Asked Questions
How will industry employers partner with our RTO to enable industry currency?
These include:
- Build strong partnerships with RTOs
- Share high-level insight into key industry changes from an employer perspective
- Identify and coordinate feasible opportunities for TTAs to update industry skills and knowledge
- Enable their staff and clients to support industry currency opportunities
- Confirm participation in industry currency opportunities
- Engage in reflective discussion with TTAs, where relevant
The prepare stage includes tools for both RTOs and employers to build a shared understanding of partnership goals, roles and responsibilities, ways of working, and mutual benefit. This stage sets the foundation for the partnership and clarifies how each partner will support industry currency.
Why is collaboration important to help TTAs maintain industry currency?
Organisation-level partnerships between RTOs and industry employers ensure the right stakeholders are involved and can support collaboration. These partnerships also help RTOs and employers work together to resolve organisational challenges.
For example, an RTO and an employer may implement a brief 30-minute induction for TTAs to mitigate work health and safety risks.
How will the toolkit help our RTO meet compliance requirements?
- Strong partnerships with industry employers make it easier to access industry currency opportunities and gain insight into recent industry changes from an employer perspective.
- The industry currency schedule supports RTOs and employers to plan and coordinate industry currency opportunities for multiple TTAs over a 12‑month period.
- The measurement approach helps RTOs tailor and standardise how TTAs record, reflect on and apply industry currency throughout the year, based on organisational requirements.
- The RTO and TTA toolkits include guidance on when different industry currency opportunities are most effective to support decision-making.
We already have a partnership with an employer, do we need the toolkit?
The toolkit is not a process you must follow from start to finish. It’s designed to enhance and build on your existing processes and industry relationships. You can choose which tools you will use and tailor these to best meet what your organisation needs.
For example, the tools designed to set partnership foundations may be useful to revisit how partners will work together to support industry currency and gain tangible benefit from the partnership.
Will the toolkit help us partner with more than one employer, if that would support our TTAs?
For example, RTOs that specialise in a particular industry or sector might use the toolkit to focus on building a strong partnership with a single employer. RTOs that deliver training across multiple industries and sectors might use the toolkit to partner with multiple employers to make sure their TTAs can access relevant currency opportunities.
How will the toolkit help us work with employers to minimise health and safety risks?
- Use the currency selection tool to identify the industry currency opportunities that best meet TTAs needs. Discuss possible opportunities with employer partners to finalise opportunities based on what is feasible for employers and relevant for TTAs.
- Use the employer information sheet to collate and share relevant information with employers before TTAs undertake industry currency opportunities.
- Use the measurement plan to help employers supervise or confirm TTAs participation and completion of industry currency opportunities and engage in reflective discussion with TTAs, where relevant.
How often should we use the tools and checklists? Do we need to use all of them?
The toolkit is not a process you must follow from start to finish. It’s designed to enhance and build on your existing processes and industry relationships. You can choose which tools you will use and tailor these to best meet what your organisation needs.
How will the toolkit help us support industry currency across different campuses and training packages?
For example, RTOs with multiple campuses may need to collaborate with relevant stakeholders from each campus to make sure planned opportunities are fit for purpose.
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