Category Archives: Training
- Are you training your people? - 20 Sep 2011 in Training
- The “Just do it” learner - 06 Sep 2011 in Training
- Do You Hear the Words that are Coming Out of my Mouth - 03 Aug 2011 in Training
- Different Strokes for Different Folks - 14 Jun 2011 in Training
- What Have You Learned Lately? - 07 Jun 2011 in The Staffing and Recruiting Industry&Training
- Repetition, Repetition, Repetition… - 03 May 2011 in Training
“How do I get my people to use the system so that we can properly track performance and metrics?” Have you ever heard the saying ”If it isn’t in the system, it didn’t get done.” That’s easy for someone to say if they know how to put it into the system. But how do you [...more]
This week we will discuss the final learning style that we will cover in this series. This is the kinesthetic learner. The kinesthetic learner learns by doing. An employee may hear a concept and see a concept, but they will not fully understand it (and retain it) until the concept is put into practice. Fortunately, [...more]
Last time we learned some tips for creating a visual experience for our learners. Now let’s talk a little bit about auditory learners. This group of people needs to hear a concept in order to best understand it. If you send someone an email of instructions and they call you to talk it through, don’t [...more]
During early childhood education, teachers and parents often give a lot of thought and effort into the practice of educating children based on varying learning styles. Each child has a way of understanding a concept that makes them most susceptible to learning and retention. These same children eventually grow into adults (most of them anyways), [...more]
In my last blog I mentioned traveling to Colorado for my very first ski vacation. My ostensible goal was to have fun, learn a little about a new sport and return intact, with no external fixation devices on any part of my body. As with any new endeavor with a relatively higher than average risk/return [...more]
I read somewhere once that an adult has to hear something six times before they retain the information. It seems hard to believe, but our brains require the repetition in order to learn. You have probably experienced a training class where the instructor repeats the same notion or concept many times through the session or [...more]
