by Shane Lueck
It’s time to face the facts; traditional training is broken. Traditional training methods might provide very short-term performance gains, but knowledge retention is minimal, leading to a skills gap.
It’s no secret that many corporate training programs aren’t cutting it these days. They are often boring, ineffective, and treat training as a one-off event instead of a process. Companies build self-paced eLearning modules or put everyone in a classroom for a day and turn on the fire hose of conceptual information.
This often results in a roller coaster effect: temporary improvements in performance that are encouraging but are almost always followed by plateaus (or worse, declines) that eventually drop off again. It’s clear from learning retention rates that current training methods are not producing desired results:
Tags: 70:20:10 • Behavior change • Corporate Learning • Formal Learning • Instructional Design • Learning Retention • performance support