News — Maximizing Learning

After investing time, energy and money in training, how do you ensure you get the most out of your investment? The simple answer is to use what you have learned as soon as possible. Research shows that people retain only a small fraction of what they learn, and without some intervention, very little of what they learn gets transferred back to the workplace. Why is this the case? Your brain needs to work to encode, store and retrieve information. Encoding is how we take in new information. When you attend training, your brain works to relate the new information to...