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Your Brain on Learning

CLO Magazine

When the brain learns, it acquires information through a person’s various senses, and this information travels along the synapses to the short-term memory. But only in roughly the past decade have conversations on how the brain learns appeared in talent management circles. This process is certain.

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Booming tech sends L&D back to basics

CLO Magazine

Technology and scientific advancements are also accelerating what we know about the brain and how it works. Leaders in neuroscience and brain-centered learning like Lauren Waldman are using technology to create transparency about how the brain learns. Indeed, the rate of knowledge creation is advancing at a rapid speed.

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Availability bias in the AI era: Understanding its impact on decision-making

TalentLMS

The output is right in front of us, so our brains think it’s the best option. Availability bias is the tendency to make decisions based on information, stories, and examples that are immediately available to us. The human tendency to rely on information that’s easy to access has also grown to include availability bias in AI.

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Accelerate Employee Performance Using the Learning Curve: Part 1 Anxiety

Infopro Learning

Timing is Everything Series: Intro , Anxiety, (Part 2 Information Overload coming May 17th). Although it might sound counterintuitive, the anxiety that employees feel to perform on the job at the outset of a training program actually helps them to retain information more effectively. The Anxiety of a New Job. Schlanger, D.

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Accelerate Employee Performance Using the Learning Curve: Part 1 Anxiety

Infopro Learning

Timing is Everything Series: Intro , Anxiety, (Part 2 Information Overload coming May 17th). Although it might sound counterintuitive, the anxiety that employees feel to perform on the job at the outset of a training program actually helps them to retain information more effectively. The Anxiety of a New Job. Schlanger, D.

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How Leading Medical Device Manufacturers Can Build Expert Sales Teams

Inkling

But what distinguishes a medical device territory manager from his peers is the amount of information she is expected to retain about her product line or specialization. Regardless of one’s sales experience, reps are expected to master their product lines, which can result in information overload.

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How to Create Context-Setting Learning Objectives - Tip #162

Vignettes Learning

According to Dr. Daniel Levitin, PhD , author of the bestselling book This is Your Brain On Music, we process 34 gigabytes of information during our leisure time alone and we would have created a world with 300 exabytes of human made information. How do let go of the need to know everything?