Alex Harper

We invest significant time/resources into upskilling people at work - whether it is improvement methods, or interpersonal skills or compliance or technical training. But does it deliver? Research shows only 12% of employees actually apply new skills learned from training provided by their employers. So here is a good new article about how to make workplace training work. Advice incudes: 1) Be clear about the purpose of the training & consider ways to reinforce learning from one-off sessions: continuous learning opportunities are needed to foster long-term change. 2) Omit content rather than condense it: too much information can keep participants from retaining any of it 3) Equip people to know what questions to ask, rather than assume the training will give them the answers 4) Acknowledge the wider benefits of training sessions, such as building rapport, creating collaborative opportunities, generating ideas & fostering a sense of community around specific topics or initiatives thedecisionlab.com/insights/…. By @TheDecision_Lab.

The post I made a couple of days ago on the differences between efficiency and productivity has been turned into a superb sketchnote & accompanying blog by @tnvora: qaspire.com/efficiency-and-p…. For those who couldn't open the original article by Avi Siegal, here's another link: archive.ph/NzBle.