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If You Want Actionable Training, Use Action Verbs

Thursday, May 6, 2021

First, I want to say thanks for the many strategic contributions you have made to the profession over the years. We are talking today about a much narrower topic. The concept of using action verbs has been around as long as Bloom’s taxonomy and likely before. Why is this important to revisit?

Because now there is a neurological aspect. In addition to stating the action required, there is a reaction on the brain, the motor cortex. A wealth of recent research shows the brain reacts differentl

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