Tag: Topic Learning Effectiveness

What You Need to Know About Learning Decay in the Workplace

By Kelly Creighton May 1, 2018 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: May 1, 2018

According to a Bridge study about knowledge retention from training, 70% of employee respondents admitted to forgetting something they had been taught during a training within 24 hours of learning it.1 And because so many organizations invest so much time and money developing their training programs, this number is quite alarming. Is there a way […]

Best Practices for Employee Learning Retention (Part 2)

By Kelly Creighton, Stephen Bruce, PhD, PHR Mar 13, 2018 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: Mar 13, 2018

[Part 1 of this article appeared in yesterday’s edition.] Get Learners to Be Active According to The Learning Pyramid shaped by research conducted by the National Training Lab, participatory teaching methods ensure high learning retention rates. So, if you want your learners to truly retain what you’re teaching them, have them participate in their own […]

Best Practices for Increasing Learning Retention (Part 1)

By Kelly Creighton Mar 12, 2018 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: Mar 12, 2018

According to longstanding scientific research by German psychologist Herman Ebbinghaus, employees will forget up to 50% of what they learned within an hour if they don’t revisit the material they were covering. They’ll forget 70% of what they learned within a day. And they’ll forget 90% of the material they covered within a month!1 This […]