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Survey Says: Knowledge Transfer and Retention are Big Issues for L&D Professionals

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What knowledge do your employees need to remember to be successful in their jobs? 77% of respondents said that some form of fact-based knowledge was critical to employee performance on the job. Greater retention of job-critical knowledge. The survey asked two open-ended questions: 1. The challenge? The result?

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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. Training reinforcement is essential to ensure that knowledge and skills learned in training are applied on the job. And oftentimes, there’s a lot at stake.

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Learning Game Design Series, Part 3: Game Mechanics

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Also in the game A Paycheck Away, players have to select a “jobs card” and a “chance card” on each turn. The jobs card represents a job that might realistically be available in the real-world. If multiple players want the job, they each have to roll a die to see who actually gets the job.

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How to Link Game Mechanics to the Learning Experience

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Before you start designing the game, think about the context learners will need to apply skills on the job: waiting tables is time-based, involves multitasking and requires teamwork. Bottom line: make your game mechanics match up with how people will need to think on the job, but get creative with everything else to fit your audience.

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How Do Serious Games Work in a Large Enterprise?

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eLearning does an excellent job of exercising these cognitive skills… but they are not the sole driver of job performance. Most corporate learning is dominated by the cognitive domain, tapping into our capacity to think, plan, and ascertain.

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How to Increase Learner Retention from Compliance Training… and Reduce Boredom

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As a L&D professional, it’s your job to make sure your organization can do the following: Comply with necessary standards. Branch scenarios by job type: We wrote a similar blog post on this subject on the BLP Lessons on Learning blog, and it was there that we first shared our approach for branching scenarios in compliance training.

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How to Build Custom Reports in Knowledge Guru Drive

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For example, maybe you want to track high scores by job title or compare performance across different departments. location, job title, department, etc.). If you want to track something specific besides the default fields already in the custom report builder, you can customize unique fields. Quick Steps for Creating Custom Fields.

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