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Training Reinforcement: 7 Things You Need to Know

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Organizations expend constant effort to deliver information employees need to know for their jobs. But training has no value if we can’t retrieve the information we’re taught. Think of these facts as tips that will help your learners recall the right information when they need it.

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Using Games to Improve Product Knowledge

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It’s hard to learn huge chunks of information by rote, and those “talking points” don’t come naturally. When the success of the organization is tied to how well people learn basic information, it’s worth investing in more substantial product knowledge training. The result? Make the training fun.

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The Learning & Remembering Equation (Infographic)

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Use the equation to help you devise training solutions that truly help your learners recall information when they need it. This infographic identifies and explains the learning and remembering equation. The first four factors relate directly to the learning process. The other three relate to remembering what we learned.

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The 12 Corporate Learning Content Areas… and Where Games Fit

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Mandatory and Compliance: This is the sort of information we need to know, or our organization needs us to know. Consider a game that puts the content in a fun setting and employs some research-based learning principles to help people memorize the information faster.

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How to Make Employee On-boarding Memorable… In a Good Way

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Some of this learning is directly related to job performance, while the rest is based on finding the right information, following the right processes and understanding the “company vernacular.” Without proper reinforcement and spacing of key concepts, new employees will quickly forget the flood of new information.

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Spaced Retrieval, Retrieval Practice, and Knowledge Guru: What Research Tells Us

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Retrieval Practice requires learners to recall information rather than simply re-read or re-listen to it. In fact, “the act of retrieving information from memory actually alters the retrieved memory by elaborating on the existing memory trace and/or creating additional retrieval routes. Med Educ 43: 1174–1181, 2009. [2] 00174.2012.

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How Protect-A-Bed Uses Knowledge Guru for Better Product Training

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Using that information we were able to tweak our presentations to make sure we highlighted the information that was getting missed. This can be a great opportunity to reinforce the information you want the learners to grasp. One thing that we really like are the reports.