Archive for December, 2009

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Employee Training and Development That Sticks

By Jillian on December 28th, 2009

Research shows that while 95% of organizations measure the degree to which employee like the training, 63% fail to measure whether or not employees learned anything and a shocking 97% fail to measure whether the learning actually impacted job performance.

Sadly, much corporate education is like Father Guido Sarducci’s Five Minute University – where participants only remember a tiny fraction of what was presented and are able to apply an even smaller piece, if any at all.

IdeaLearning Group’s Complete Learning Experience model works to ensure that your employee development and training programs result in participants that not only remember, but can actually use their new knowledge, skills and abilities to improve your business.

Father Guido Sarducci is a fictional character made famous by American comedian Don Novello. The character was featured in 1970s cartoons by underground cartoonists Dave Sheridan and Fred Schrier, appearing in person in the early 1970s on Laugh In and later in 1975 Smothers Brothers’ TV show. His most prominent appearance was on Saturday Night Live in the late 1970s.

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Training Tip: Cognitive Reflection

By Jillian on December 22nd, 2009

Here is a training tip for you: Think about one of your earliest memories. Can you see it in your mind? What does it feel like? Now, why do you remember this particular experience and not almost everything else that has happened since then? Did this event have a strongly emotional component; was it something that happened with great frequency? Emotional impact and repetition are two techniques for transferring short-term memories to long-term memories. That is one of the ways IdeaLearning Group works to create custom and complete learning experiences that will positively impact your business.

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Plant the Seeds of Adult Learning

By Jillian on December 8th, 2009

Not just there to look pretty, plants can positively impact adult learning:

“Scientists at NASA have discovered that the use of plants creates a better learning and thinking environment for astronauts” (Wolverton 1996). And “Federal Clean Air Council studies found that plants raised indoor oxygen levels and increased productivity by 10 percent.”

Include plenty of live plants (not fake ones that are inevitably dusty) in your learning environment and see if learning grows. Argh … bad pun!