Have you heard the expression, your eyes are the mirror to your soul?
The mirror neuron resides on the right side of your brain, the creative side. The mirror neuron is amazing because it mirrors 100% of what the eyes see, subconsciously. Only your consciousness knows whether the event actually happened.
How much of what you learned from high school has remained with you? If you are like most people, you study for exams, perform an information dump and then forget most of what you learned shortly thereafter. We are no longer in high school and we are too busy and life is moving to quickly, to not retain our learning.
In order to retain our learning, the human mind must see it, interact with it and do something with it. We should be teaching to the right side of the brain and storing it in the left (logical or rational) side of the brain. Instead, we tend to teach it in the left and expect the right to go get it, understand it and retain the new knowledge. E-learning with individual follow-up or coaching is the usual solution.
Learning today requires:
1) Motivation -- for the individual (rewards, money, career enhancement, etc.)
2) Coaching – interactive and two way
3) Retention – practice is reinforcement, have them summarize into own words
4) Transference – application to own scenarios and go forward plan = ownership
Putting It Into Action:
Do not dump learning and e-learning on everyone and force them to use it. Ensure that the four requirements mentioned above will be met. Implement or champion your training in phases. Start with your most enthusiastic learners, followed by early adopters, middle adopters and lagers. Save the die hards for last. Look for higher visibility and higher impact opportunities to apply the new learning. Get testimonials along the way and have the first batch of trainees attract the next batch to attend the training sessions.
With you along the path towards success,
Joseph