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Five tips for Maximizing Training and Creating Sustainable Learning
Written by: Sue Lindgren HawkesArticle Overview: How much time, energy and money have you invested in Cheese, Fish or other “flavor of the month” training initiatives and had little to show for it after a few weeks? Here are five suggestions for you and your company to improve learning and retention in your organization.
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Five tips for Maximizing Training and Creating Sustainable Learning
1. Form “think tanks”. Use mastermind groups, brainstorming sessions and creative teams to foster ideas and input. Use them for specific projects as well as overall organizational improvement. You’ll find the best ideas often come from unexpected sources. Your clients can be a rich source of inspiration and ideas, for example. When was the last time you asked them for feedback? Did you listen?
2. Create a learning environment. Train your managers to be coaches. They can support your training initiatives with individual and group coaching. Training combined with coaching reinforces new concepts and allows you to integrate them, while increasing retention. When your employees integrate new concepts in their daily activities, and their achievements are recognized, this leads to sustainable progress. It really works!
3. Keep improving communications. Poor results can usually be traced to communication failure. Learn to listen carefully. Give people the freedom to be honest, to ask questions and to give feedback (without negative repercussions for doing so.) Learn to make requests that include a call to action, a concrete, agreed upon timeline and specifics about the task.
4. Make choices that reflect what is important. To create a learning environment that is effective, decide beforehand what you want to accomplish. As you implement new practices for sustained learning and lasting retention, you will gain an increased sense of competence and comfort with them, especially once you have results.
5. Have an outstanding team with a good plan rather than a good team with an outstanding plan. Allow your employees to take ownership of their learning processes. Give them all the support they need to be top performers. When you set clear expectations and invite honest feedback, you are building a foundation for strong leadership, and strong leadership brings results!
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What is your hit ratio?
- Like most entrepreneurs I have more ideas for where I want to take my business than I can handle. I believe in the "fail early, fail often" philosophy and try to find small ways to get started on a project to see if it has any legs.
I would estimate that for every 50 things I try, most of them don't have an impact for me, 10 of them have a slightly positive impact, and 1 hits it really big. Some of my big wins over the past few years have been:
* Learning the ins and outs of search engine optimization to drive traffic
* Putting up and optimizing Google AdSense ads to monetize the website
* Deciding to be the leader in profiling famous entrepreneurs online
* Recruiting outside authors to help contribute to the website content (now have over 25,000 pages)
* Creating the entrepreneur forums
* Bringing on staff to help cope with the daily amount of work required to keep things running smoothly
What is your hit ratio and some of your big wins?
Re: What is your hit ratio?
- [quote="Evan":2jfsvw6z]Like most entrepreneurs I have more ideas for where I want to take my business than I can handle. I believe in the "fail early, fail often" philosophy and try to find small ways to get started on a project to see if it has any legs.
I would estimate that for every 50 things I try, most of them don't have an impact for me, 10 of them have a slightly positive impact, and 1 hits it really big. Some of my big wins over the past few years have been:
* Learning the ins and outs of search engine optimization to drive traffic
* Putting up and optimizing Google AdSense ads to monetize the website
* Deciding to be the leader in profiling famous entrepreneurs online
* Recruiting outside authors to help contribute to the website content (now have over 25,000 pages)
* Creating the entrepreneur forums
* Bringing on staff to help cope with the daily amount of work required to keep things running smoothly
What is your hit ratio and some of your big wins?[/quote:2jfsvw6z]
That's pretty impressive Evan!
When I was younger it was probably 1/5 things i would try would work out. I would come up with 100 different ideas but only act on some of them. My biggest issue was not following all the way through, or having to much going on at one time.
I read a quote today that fits with this idea.
“A minute's success pays the failure of years.”
- Robert Browning
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- Hi Evan,
I have a new suggestion for "Boldest Entrepreneur Moves of All Time" and a suggestion for your Learning from the Masters series:
1. Boldest Entrepreneur Moves of All Time = Christopher Columbus:
"... he saw the possibility of treasure and commerce where others saw only danger. He committed so wholeheartedly to that vision that not even dozens of rejections and ongoing penury could dissuade him from pursuing a journey to Asia via the West. He built on his technical strengths as a seaman to plan a viable journey and eventually marshal an expedition."
- Christopher Hoenig, 6 Essential Secrets for Thinking on a New Level
I bought Hoenig's book about 10 years ago but couldn't make head or tail of it then... reading it now and finding it inspirational...
2. Nomination for Learning from the Masters video: Dee Hock, founder of VISA. (Source = Hoenig.)
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