Knowledge retention is a vital aspect of all professionals’ learning curves and developmental experience. Without it, most employees tend to forget the knowledge they learned during their readiness and technical knowledge trainings.
To preserve your entity’s training and development efforts, you have to implement sound knowledge retention plans.
In this blog post, we are going to thoroughly study what makes knowledge retention plans succeed.
1. Recognition & Rewarding
To ensure that your employees are adopting knowledge retention as an integral part of their day-to-day task and duties, you have to make sure that you are tackling the psychological rewarding aspect by offering employees rewards and recognize them properly when they finish every required part of their knowledge retention trainings.
Moreover, make sure that accomplishing all the assigned knowledge retention trainings is part of the criteria upon which employees get a promotion or any sort of recognition or salary increase. Through such process, you can slowly but surely integrate knowledge retention in your team’s day-to-day activities and tasks.
2. Create a Bidirectional Knowledge Flow
Peer learning is critically important. Make sure that you create spaces where your professionals can gain knowledge and experience from each other by dividing them into teams and let them participate in certain activities together regarding the learning material.
3. Use Engaging Learning Methods & Techniques
There are tons of engaging methods that can increase the engagement and interactivity of your knowledge retention sessions. Some employees are engaged when the training integrates competitions or multimedia. Some other find workshops and role-plays more effective, especially when they reflect on real case scenario from the market!
Make sure to integrate such mediums and solutions to increase trainees’ engagement.
4. Make Knowledge Easily Accessible & Digestible
When your training’s material are easily accessible from anywhere, at any time, and from any device, such training is more likely to meet its objectives and achieve high attendance rates. Moreover, as tackled in the previous blog post, microlearning modules have the ability to easily fit in your employees’ busy schedule, which makes them way more accessible when compared with traditional training modules.
5. Use Spaced Repetition
A gap between learning and applying knowledge is inevitable. However, spaced learning repetition fills such gaps to improve retention and ensure that your trainees will not forget the knowledge they gained during their training sessions.
Make sure to provide your learning materials are divided into bite-sized parts and conducted in spaced intervals to overcome the forgetting curve that prohibits most trainees from retaining all the technical information they learned.
However, the forgetting curve is another topic that deserves dedicating a new blog post for it, and how you could ensure overcoming such curve.
To conclude, these five components can ensure optimizing knowledge gaining and achieving higher knowledge retention rates.
Consilium integrates all these five components in each training module; from recognizing trainees and engaging them in competition-based trainings to the flexible implementation of bite-sized learning modules that can be accessed from anywhere and through any device. Moreover, Consilium integrates spaced repetitions to ensure optimal knowledge retention outcomes.
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