The Simplest Way to Improve Your Employees' Training Experience Is to Study Their Learning Habits and Preferences

Studying your own and your employee's habits and preferences around personal and professional development alone isn't going to help you increase employees' involvement and engagement in company-offered training and development activities.

However, when you implement what you learn, that's when the magic happens.

I spent some time studying my learning habits just this morning.

Here are 5 questions to ask yourself when interacting with any personal or professional development content:

1- What topics interest me the most + why? What is so special about them? Are they technical or more on the soft side? I realized I get attracted to topics related to human behavior, change and productivity. *who doesn't like having more done in less time??

2- How do I like to learn? When do I look forward to the learning experience? For me, I like short F2F 1-4 hours of training or up to 1h of online training. I like a change of scenery & place and long breaks. I can't sit on the chair for more than 1.5 hours; it drives me crazy.

3- What was your worst training experience? Think about F2F and online.?

4- What was your best training experience? Did you have several of them? Write down the experiences you liked. For me, it was a F2F training without a projector or screen, with different 2-3 facilitators, not just one, in a very cozy lounge wearing jeans and a T-shirt. When it comes to the content, it was 100% relevant to my role and what I do on day-today-basis. That is it.

5- When I'm likely to implement what I learned during the training and why? What needs to happen for me to take the uncomfortable action?

Study your own learning habits. As HR, study the learning preferences of employees in your company. Learn, analyze and make the changes that are viable. The more you learn and take action, the more knowledge you'll have to take and implement & see results in your organization.

Share your best learning experiences in the comments ?? Why did you like them and what special was about them?

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