February 2015
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Use It or Lose It

Monday, February 9, 2015

The neuroscience of learning, retention, and transfer.

American corporations spend about $60 billion a year training their employees. In spite of the enormous investment, careful research shows that today's employees retain only a small fraction of our training content, and an even smaller fraction ultimately gets transferred back to their workplaces.

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Why is so little information retained and transferred? Some people blame our training methods, suggesting that lessons need to be more relevan

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