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There are three strategies trainers can use to leverage the nature of the brain for its most productive learning.
Wed Nov 01 2017
As a training manager, I’ve often felt frustrated by my success rate; that is, how much my learners typically remember and use after I deliver a training session. There is a famous principle known by educators called the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve, which essentially states that individuals forget 50 percent of what they learned after one hour and 70 percent by a day later, followed by rapid forgetting in the subsequent days and weeks. I ask my students, “Can you practice new skills if you don’t remember what they were?” The answer, of course, is “No.”
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