Content about Language acquisition

October 1, 2010
How-To: Help Them Retain What You Train

Knowledge retention rates can be improved significantly with just a little extra effort. Here are eight principles to increase the return on your learning investment.

By Mike Hawkins

You attend a seminar, read a book, talk to an expert, participate in a training session, or conduct some research to expand your knowledge. You learn something new about a topic you wanted to know more about. Yet after a week or two, what often happens? You forget much of what you learned.