WE FORGET QUICKLY
Humans have been to the moon, but we still need Facebook to tell us it’s our mom’s birthday
In an article by Training Industry, they cite studies which suggest as much as 90 percent of information after a training is forgotten within 30 days, and 70 percent of that loss happens within one day. What?! Really? All that hard work creating beautiful videos and perfect modules, the planning and designing almost obliterated after the first 30 days?! By this bleak statistic, you have as much chance of your learners remembering the snacks that were served as they do the key points of the training.
WE NEED MORE THAN A TRAINING EVENT
Power up the rocket, we are ready for takeoff
Three days in instructor-led training or a few hours of web-based training can be awesome. It’s how you teach new concepts and show real-life scenarios in action. When done well, training is inspirational, and the learner is excited to take what they’ve learned back to work and start changing their behavior.
But even with the best intentions, our learners get busy and start to forget most of what they have learned before they can implement their new skills and create new habits. Taking the next steps to reinforce the learning is critical to taking the training to infinity and beyond.
WE NEED REINFORCEMENT FOR BEHAVIOR CHANGE
Space travel and training a journey
Do you want in on the training and beyond secret? To gain true returns on your training investment, reinforcement is key. Reinforcement extends the training and moves to implementing behaviors after training events.
After completing training, the learners have good intentions to implement what they have learned. After they find 50 emails in their inbox and back-to-back meetings, even a person with the right intentions gets distracted. Here are a few tips on reinforcement:
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- Keep the learner engaged and the training engaging
- Challenge the learner to practice their new skill
- Make the learner accountable
- Offer new tips as they hone their skills to become experts
WE (SKOSH) HELP ACHIEVE LASTING RESULTS
At Skosh we help our partners and clients establish their training goals and determine reinforcement objectives to achieve lasting results. Our incredible design and amazing reinforcement app help ensure your next training really makes an impact both now and well into the future.
Want to dive a little deeper? Learn more about how to determine your objectives or to see how our instructional designers worked with one client to build a reinforcement tool that includes daily reflection and journaling, check out this case study.
