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Does
your organization face any of these workforce development needs:
1. Employees
leave training with valuable knowledge … but forget much of it. #
2. Helpful
training materials are given to employees … but rarely used.
3. Important
knowledge resides in employee minds …but lost when they retire or leave.
4. Performance
enhancing methods, procedures, practices is available … but underutilized.
5. Employees need training … but don’t
have time to take it.
6. More innovative ideas are needed … but
innovative thinking needs improvement.
# Learning & Forgetting – A major limitation of training
Today, typical
corporate training programs “push” learning on employees with the hope that
some of it will stick. However, whether learning comes from a book, video, classroom or
online, all training has the same inherent limitation:
The average person remembers only
2-4%
of what they have been taught
after 60 days.
So when the time comes to apply the learning, most of
it is forgotten. See Curve of Forgetting: adm.uwaterloo.ca/infocs/study/curve.html
A new (old) appraoch to training.
So … instead of the traditional “memory” based learning,
Nth Degree uses a “thinking” based approach to learning. Actually, this
is not a new way to train but a very old way. Historically, the most effective way of learning has always
been, and continues to be, learn-by-doing. Skills can be passed along by
mentors.
Example of our approach: Traditional Strategic
Planning training can take days and even up to a full semester of
university training, but we do it in one hour. The learning objective for
our students/employees is for them to walk away from training in one hour
knowing how to use the MindSights
Strategic Planning application. The application is then used to mentor
the employee “on-the-job” when and where knowledge is needed; aka “Learn-by-doing.”
Contact us for more information about our training services.
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