70% of what people learn is on the job. Formal training can help to set the foundation, but people need help as they are doing their jobs too.

Workers may not remember what they were trained on. Something unexpected could go wrong. There may have been a change and this is their first time encountering it.

Performance Support encourages you to focus on the resources that employees will use as they do their jobs. These resources are focused on helping employees complete their work.

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Microlearning is  the more engaging, less time-consuming, and cheaper-to-produce sibling of regular training. It involves stripping down a skill or idea to its most essential parts, and delivering them one at a time. 

People begin to forget information between 20 minutes and 24 hours after learning it. We are better able to recall information and concepts if we learn them in multiple, spread-out sessions. We can leverage this effect by using spaced repetition to slowly learn almost anything.

We can use Microlearning and the Spacing Effect to deliver short bursts of learning spaced out regularly to maximize learning retention and minimize cost and development time.

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On this episode, we look at how to best prepare yourself, and your learners to the extent that you can influence them in these areas, to learn optimally. The things that we will discuss in this episode can be categorized into health and wellness. These things won’t just make you healthier, they will make you a better learner.

There are four primary categories to help you prime your body and mind to learn better:

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Gamification is the use of game-design elements and game principals in non-game contexts.

It's been used for years. The Miracle Piano for NES was an early example of teaching a skill (piano playing) and adding gaming elements through the Nintendo. these days, you can use apps like Wave, Duolingo, Foursquare, and FitBit. Each of these provides users with gaming elements to partner with navigating, learning, being places, and getting moving.

Today we dive into Octalysis gamification from Yu-Kai Cho, who is the head of the The Octalysis Group.

Octalysis is unique because it focuses on eight core drives, balances right brained and left brain learning,

If you'd like to learn more, listen to Yu-Kai's Ted Talk on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Qjuegtiyc

This episode talks about failure and how to learn from it.

Many successful people, like Michael Jordan and Sylvester Stallone, have overcome failure and rejection to become some of the most successful people in their industries.

This episode dives in to Arthur Brooks' Atlantic article entitled “How to Succeed at Failure”. This article discusses how failure can be a positive and strategies to move past failure.

The key takeaways from the article were:

Then, we tie in how adding challenge and allowing people to fail during training, can lead to better learning and performance. The top tips to add challenge to training and to make failure ok were:

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Content Curation is the process of collecting and arranging training content from a variety of different sources and publishing it online to share with your audience. To curate content, you not only have to find the content that is relevant to your audience, but you also have to present it to them in a format that will be beneficial to them.

On this episode, we will discuss:

In today's episode, we are going to talk about how to get better at Virtual Training. Most of us know that a vast majority of virtual training is terrible. It’s not engaging, we don’t tend to learn or get better at what we are supposed to be getting trained on, and it’s not going anywhere.

If you’ve ever lead a virtual session and had trouble with effectiveness, engagement, achieving your goals, or anything else, the tips in this episode will help you to get more raving fans and to see better results.

This episode provides an overview to the most in-demand skills of this year. Power skills are rebranded soft skills for the digital age that cannot be replaced by machines and automation. Tactical Skills are the universal skills that everybody needs to succeed, regardless of role and industry. Technical skills are role-specific skills that all companies need to succeed today. Listen to this episode to see which skills that you should be learning, and which you will be supporting this year and in the future.

Like most things, COVID has impacted how companies train their employees. On this episode, we look into Training Magazine's 2021 Industry Report, which provides industry-wide analysis on the top trends in workplace learning during 2021, and the top things to expect in 2022.

These days, everybody is involved in training others to be better. Whether you work in a formal training role, you work in another part of the business where you informally train others, or you work in a small company or run one of your own - you find yourself helping others to learn things, learn their jobs, and build new skills. This first episode of Apex Mind will address the top 5 gaps in at-work learning today, and some tips to address them.