Make It Stick: Helping Learners Retain Information To Apply In The Workplace
Learning is fundamental to training. It's easy to focus on the information we want to disseminate. Create a handout, make a PowerPoint. Talk. Not so hard. We put the responsibility on the shoulders of our learners to take in the information and decipher how to use it when they return to work. Training gets trickier when we focus on how we want people to learn to use the information we share in a productive way when they return to the job. When we design our sessions so that we not only provide information, but give people an opportunity to practice, we have created training. As trainers we need to focus more on learning and less on telling. How do we go about providing more opportunity for learning to really occur?…
