Combating Learning Decay
Phone Coaching to combat learning decay
Combating Learning Decay
How often do you return to work from an inspiring training course bristling with new information and great ideas for improving the way you do things? And how long before all your wonderful intentions get swamped by demands of your work and colleagues? As the dust gathers on your course manual the only evidence left that a course was attended is the invoice.
The Ebbinghaus ‘forgetting curve’ demonstrated the frighteningly rapid decline in our ability to retain new knowledge and thus the behaviours associated with them. A good trainer always recaps and summarises as a way of combating this decline, but when the course is over the decline continues…and habit sets in.
This is where after course Phone Coaching can really help. A simple and cost effective way of reinforcing learning. Trainer and delegate agree on a time for the call. During the call, which lasts about 20-30 minutes, they go through the action learning points, any support or resources required and a realistic timeframe for achievement. Thus the original engagement with learning objectives is rekindled. Who knows you might even blow the dust off that manual and revisit the material.
