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E4 - Do You Attend 1-Day Training and Do Nothing with It? Are You Failing to Make Learning Stick?
Have you ever attended a 1-day training course, returned to the office and done nothing different. You're one of many who fails to make learning stick.
The return on time & money invested is therefore zero.
In this podcast, we discuss this common story; You work in the corporate world, you attend 1-day training courses. You come back and get on with your work. Nothing changes. We spend 10 years at school going to lesson after lesson. Yet, we then get out into the big wide world and expect to learn a skill between 9-5 in a training course. It simply can not happen.
Similar to when you learnt to drive. The average person takes 40 driving lessons. And then they pass. In the science of learning, this is called, 'Spaced Repetition'. It simply means that we learn, we take a break, we learn, we take a break, and so on. Also, we are applying what we are learning all the time, as we drive. In short, we are making the learning stick. Yet on 1-day training courses, we learn the theory, there is some practice, but not enough.
Read the Make Learning Stick Podcast Transcript:
"People go on one-day training courses, come back, and nothing's changed. My name is Darren Smith, and you're at home with Sticky Learning MBM, trainers to the UK grocery industry. So I spent 15 years in the corporate world and I attended one-day training courses. HR would come along or you'd have your appraisal and there'll be a list of courses that you could attend, my team could attend, and you'd worked through some sort of very complex process to arrive at Bob needed time management skills, or John needed negotiation skills, and the date was set with HR. These guys went on a training course normally with a bunch of other companies, but it could be internal."
No One Questions Why Our Behaviours Don't Change Following Training
"Now here's the surprising thing. We go to school, we have double English every week, if not two lots, for many, many years to try and get us to understand that topic and then when we leave school, we go to the corporate world, spend a huge amount on training. I'd expect our behaviours to change and of course, they don't and no one really questions it. You'd go on a course, you come back, your manager might say, "How was it?" That was fine. And you try and get on with the rest of your day, which was piling up. And that's all you really thought about whilst you were on this one-day training course."
"So for 50 plus years, who can blame anyone? The norm is you go on a one-day training course, you come back and nothing changes. Nowadays, the learning gurus understand about blended learning or 70/20/10, but what I want to talk about is really simple. It's doing learning or training and then changing behaviour. Because if you're not, all that's happening is learning transfer. You're going on a course or you're talking to someone or you're learning something and they're passing on that information, but you're not doing anything with it. As someone once said, information without application is just entertainment. And whilst the courses that I'm sure you're going on aren't that entertaining, that's all that's happening. You're being entertained. Because we're not achieving that crucial behavioural change. Aye, you're doing something different when you're at work."
Three Simple Steps to Get the Most from Your Training Investment and Make Learning Truly Stick
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E4 - Do You Attend 1-Day Training and Do Nothing with It? Are You Failing to Make Learning Stick?
Have you ever attended a 1-day training course, returned to the office and done nothing different. You're one of many who fails to make learning stick.
The return on time & money invested is therefore zero.
In this podcast, we discuss this common story; You work in the corporate world, you attend 1-day training courses. You come back and get on with your work. Nothing changes. We spend 10 years at school going to lesson after lesson. Yet, we then get out into the big wide world and expect to learn a skill between 9-5 in a training course. It simply can not happen.
Similar to when you learnt to drive. The average person takes 40 driving lessons. And then they pass. In the science of learning, this is called, 'Spaced Repetition'. It simply means that we learn, we take a break, we learn, we take a break, and so on. Also, we are applying what we are learning all the time, as we drive. In short, we are making the learning stick. Yet on 1-day training courses, we learn the theory, there is some practice, but not enough.
Read the Make Learning Stick Podcast Transcript:
"People go on one-day training courses, come back, and nothing's changed. My name is Darren Smith, and you're at home with Sticky Learning MBM, trainers to the UK grocery industry. So I spent 15 years in the corporate world and I attended one-day training courses. HR would come along or you'd have your appraisal and there'll be a list of courses that you could attend, my team could attend, and you'd worked through some sort of very complex process to arrive at Bob needed time management skills, or John needed negotiation skills, and the date was set with HR. These guys went on a training course normally with a bunch of other companies, but it could be internal."
No One Questions Why Our Behaviours Don't Change Following Training
"Now here's the surprising thing. We go to school, we have double English every week, if not two lots, for many, many years to try and get us to understand that topic and then when we leave school, we go to the corporate world, spend a huge amount on training. I'd expect our behaviours to change and of course, they don't and no one really questions it. You'd go on a course, you come back, your manager might say, "How was it?" That was fine. And you try and get on with the rest of your day, which was piling up. And that's all you really thought about whilst you were on this one-day training course."
"So for 50 plus years, who can blame anyone? The norm is you go on a one-day training course, you come back and nothing changes. Nowadays, the learning gurus understand about blended learning or 70/20/10, but what I want to talk about is really simple. It's doing learning or training and then changing behaviour. Because if you're not, all that's happening is learning transfer. You're going on a course or you're talking to someone or you're learning something and they're passing on that information, but you're not doing anything with it. As someone once said, information without application is just entertainment. And whilst the courses that I'm sure you're going on aren't that entertaining, that's all that's happening. You're being entertained. Because we're not achieving that crucial behavioural change. Aye, you're doing something different when you're at work."
Three Simple Steps to Get the Most from Your Training Investment and Make Learning Truly Stick