How to Massively Increase Your Retention of Learning

Note: List of courses is now at here

The common problem faced by learners all over the world is not how much they learn but how much learning they retain.  For we know that if your retention is low, your application of the learning will also be low. That means lower training effectiveness.   Here are the top 5 ways that we use to massively increase the retention of learning for our clients: (for the top 7 things that training must cover, read this)

1. Review and reflection once every half or one hour.  The review and reflection can be in the form of Question and Answer, Case Study and Sharing of Learning
2. IAP - Immediate Action Plan, how can you not remember when you put your learning into action immediately?
3. Funny Video Clips.  A picture speaks a thousand words, and a moving picture speaks a million words.  This is especially so when the video clip is funny and exaggerating, and such ridiculous associations will definitely lock into people's minds
4. Discussions and Sharing of Learning.  This is the most direct and effective method
5. Relate to Personal Experience, especially how you can do things differently in future with the new learning.

At the end of the day, it's the retention that counts, and we can all increase our retention massively if the trainer can employ the above 5 effective methods.  By Andy Ng, Chief Trainer at Asia Trainers, details of courses at here.  Related articles:

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