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Ending the Vicious Cycle – Tips for Improving Focus in the Workplace

KnowledgeCity

Today’s workforce spends its days multitasking with smartphones in hand, headphones in ears, texting while driving, talking on the phone and checking email. Moreover, it’s a fact that most people are not as efficient at multitasking as they think they are, as evidenced by the number of accidents caused by texting and driving.

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A challenge to the multitask assumption

Clive on Learning

A few weeks ago I wrote on the Onlignment blog about The multitask assumption. By this I meant the assumption you can safely make with any webinar that a good proportion of the audience is multitasking - you know, checking emails, answering the phone, listening to music, finishing off a report, and so on.

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Don’t Try to Do So Many Things At Once

CLO Magazine

Employee attempts to multitask are putting a serious damper on their performance. But learning leaders can help combat and even prevent some of the slowdown. Research says the brain simply can’t do that, Kerns said. The time it takes for the brain to refocus after each turn — seconds and microseconds — adds up and burns time.

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If u buy it, they will come – Really?

eLearning 24-7

All of those numbers are tied to one little, tiny thing – IT’S ASSIGNED LEARNING. You assign an employee to take a set of courses to learn a new skill or skills. You assign them to complete a course using synchronous-based learning. ” “Learners prefer assigned learning.” Think about that.

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Let’s Focus a Little Better

CLO Magazine

listen to music in a similar fashion, sitting there, or dancing around, or, wait for it, stopping and starting it on my cassette player to jot down the lyrics. As a millennial, I’ve been conditioned to multitask, and as glorious as that’s been to list on cover letters in the past, it is in fact, not the business for me or anyone really.

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Bring the Science of Learning into Your Employee Training

eLearningMind

This scenario is common across workplaces because, in many cases, employee training is created without much thought about how learners learn best. The science of learning is understanding the inner workings of our knowledge acquisition and using that information to design impactful training that truly sticks.

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 7/23/2005

Big Dog, Little Dog

Human Brain's 'Mastermind' Located. Humans attempt to do many things at the same time, such as driving and chatting on the phone, or working and listening to music, and now research suggests why such multitasking may be possible: the brain appears to have its own control center. Training Top 100 for 2005.