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If the spacing effect is so great, why is nobody using it?

Learning Pool

Learning technology now provides tools that make it almost easy to instrument a system in which the spacing effect can set the rhythm and tempo of learning interactions and programs that treat learning as a process, not an event. . Very few organizational learning programs make use of the spacing effect, currently. .

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Manager's Role in Learning and Performance Improvement

The Performance Improvement Blog

Individual, team, and enterprise performance can’t improve without learning. Learning isn’t in addition to a manager’s job; it IS a manager’s job. By “learning” I mean acquiring the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and beliefs that help individuals, teams, and whole organizations improve performance.

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5 steps to using the spacing effect in your next training

Learning Pool

So if you are a learning professional designing a program which calls for deep, long-lasting learning in a particular area, and which hopes to bring about a permanent change in knowledge, competence, attitudes, behavior and performance, why wouldn’t you use spaced practice to make it successful?

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What do we know and how do we know it?

The Performance Improvement Blog

Every day it seems, a new measure of employee attitudes and behavior is reported in the press. By “story”, I mean the narrative of how the organization, other people, and events influenced a change in attitudes and behavior and how that change affected business results. René Lavinghouze writes about using success stories.

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Active and Passive Learning in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

Logs, diaries, and journals (recording reflections and learning as it occurs). Simulation and debrief (group exercises to test assumptions, beliefs, and attitudes about processes and systems). Large-scale events (whole organization system change). Learning histories (structured group reflection about the meaning of past events).

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When is eLearning More Effective than In-Person Training?

Degreed

Looking ahead to what comes after the pandemic, how will organizational learning permanently evolve following a decline in in-person training? Learning leaders can play a big role in demonstrating that value. Don’t let learning be just an event, but a mindset. Transform attitudes and strengthen learning.

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Barriers to Learning in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

Not discussing the un-discussable – everyone has a shared but un-spoken understanding that certain issues are not to be confronted and resolved, e.g., one employee’s negative attitudes are bringing down morale of the organization but nobody will talk about this problem for fear of retribution.