3 Crucial Post-Training Mistakes to Watch Out For

3 Crucial Post-Training Mistakesto Watch Out For It took your team countless hours to create the perfect training course and implement the new content with hundreds of employees. You followed all the rules of creating a learning and development (L&D) program, but a few months after your first session, you’re not seeing an increase in […]

Optimizing the Reinforcement of Knowledge

Optimizing the Reinforcement of Knowledge Reinforcement of knowledge and behavior changes concern much more than just the forgetting curve. Here’s a brief summary of some of the lessons the Mindmarker methodology incorporates to form a whole reinforcement strategy. When you choose to use reinforcement, it’s important to develop a course with the right flow. To […]

Addressing the 5 Training Reinforcement Gaps

Addressing the 5 Training Reinforcement Gaps Just because someone completed training doesn’t mean they’ll be able to remember and apply the knowledge and skills they learned. The traditional view of training is that it covers the event itself—the course material presented in the training meeting, whether that’s instructor-led in person or virtually, or a self-guided […]

How to Design an Impactful Training Reinforcement Program

How to Design an Impactful Training Reinforcement Program When planning your training reinforcement program, the right design can make the difference between a successful, impactful program and one that fails to create lasting change. Start With Why Sending repetitive emails or reminders about previous training material doesn’t create lasting impact. Instead, begin by thinking about […]

How to Strengthen Memory Retention

How to Strengthen Memory Retention Whether it’s as simple as misplaced keys or as unnerving as walking into a classroom with no memory that a major test was scheduled, forgetting is very common. Learning and development professionals are tasked with beating that tendency to forget to achieve desired behavior change. Learning and Forgetting One of […]

How to Effectively Change Behaviors

How to Effectively Change Behaviors Training programs should actively engage your participants and leave a lasting impression, but do they really? What Happens After Training Ends? If there’s no reinforcement program in place once a training program is over, all of what your employees learned will go to waste. Most of the skills taught during […]

8 Myths About Training Reinforcement

8 Myths About Training Reinforcement We often hear a lot of misconceptions around training reinforcement. Training reinforcement is the continuous reinforcement of course material post-training. Reinforcement programs are crafted using your learning objectives and expected behavior outcomes to increase knowledge retention and change behavior. Here are 8 myths about training reinforcement: 1. Reinforcement is the […]

Everything You Need to Know About Actionable Intelligence

Everything You Need to Know About Actionable Intelligence The true value of a training reinforcement program comes from its ability to influence powerful organizational change through actionable intelligence. What is Actionable Intelligence? Actionable intelligence is the data and analysis gathered post-training that allows you to make decisions that will guide you in continuously improving your […]

5 Tips for Effective Sales Training

5 Tips for Effective Sales Training If you’re planning or revising your sales training program, you’ll want to check out these five tips to effectively train your team. 1. Focus on the Why Your sales training program should be built around achieving a desired outcome, like a specific behavior change. When your learners understand why […]

How to Increase Sales Training Results

How to Increase Sales Training Results We’re often asked how we can ensure that sales training will be effective and increase the organization’s bottom line. Our response to that is that we recognize it’s only natural for learners to forget information, so for training to truly be effective, it has to be reinforced. By reinforcing […]