Do you want your virtual training sessions to result in longer-term impact? As trainers, we can learn much from neuroscientists about how to strengthen connections between the neurons in the brains of our learners.
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“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn,” said Benjamin Franklin. I am unconvinced that people within organizations are in a learning mindset at all.
Although change is part of the natural evolution of organizations, it creates chaos or psychological tension in the brain called cognitive dissonance.
A good place to start with any training exercise is often the end: the deliverables, the take-home messages … in other words, what it is that you actually want to have achieved by the time your audience are walking out of the room.
The brain is the anatomical environment where organizational learning takes root. In order to learn effectively and efficiently, people have to be able to pay attention, absorb information, store that information long-term, and recall it when necessary.
On the surface, “strategic alignment” is easy to understand It simply requires that people executing a business strategy be on the same page.
Whenever we learn, our brain changes. One powerful way to change our brains is learning by doing, or experiential learning.
As we learn more about the brain, it appears that there is a new trend on the horizon: 95 percent of brain activity is unconscious—and in order to tap into the full potential of our employees, we have to train them to unleash the power of the...