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Training and Learning Myths

• Retention Rates - Hearing, Doing, Seeing - A Training and Learning Myth

  By Robert Bacal - So, the upshot is that if you are a trainer or instructional designer, you should not necessarily focus on "learning by doing", but on generating attention, motivation, and thinking about what is to be learned. If you do that retention will improve ^new (Added: 21-Oct-2009 Hits: 348 )

• Learning Styles Not A Good Tool For Trainers To Use To Increase Learning In Training - Training Myth

  By Robert Bacal - Learning styles have garnered a great deal of interest from trainers, and while they are interesting, trainers tend to overvalue the importance of taking learning styles into account when designing or delivering training. The matching of training methods to learning styles is often a dead end, and wasted effort. Here's why. ^new (Added: 21-Oct-2009 Hits: 169 )

• Trainers Do Not Need To Know Much About The Subject They Are Teaching - Myth or Truth?

  By Robert Bacal - There are a significant number of trainers, training departments, and companies that deliver training on a large scale, that either believe, or act like they believe that trainers do not have to be experts in the topics they are teaching or training. ^new (Added: 21-Oct-2009 Hits: 186 )

• Trainers Do Not Motivate Learners, Cannot Motivate Learners, and Should Not Motivate - Myth?

  By Robert Bacal - It's mostly myth, this perspective on trainers and their role in motivating. However, it depends on how one defines motivation. ^new (Added: 21-Oct-2009 Hits: 269 )

• Stupid Trainer Tricks - Believing All Adults Are Self-Directed Learners

  By Robert Bacal - Adult learning principles, as presented by Malcolm Knowles are very commonly used by trainers as the bedrock of their activities. We'll be critiquing these elsewhere, but one major problem is that they describe adult learners in an idealized way ^new (Added: 21-Oct-2009 Hits: 184 )

• Believing Adults Will Act Like Adults When In Learning Situations - Stupid Trainer Tricks

  By Robert Bacal - Inexperienced trainers tend to have a somewhat idealized view of how adults will behave in training. The expectation is that they will act like... well, act like adults. ^new (Added: 21-Oct-2009 Hits: 225 )

• Stupid Trainer Tricks - Not Having Enough In-Depth Knowledge of the Subject

  By Robert Bacal - Sometimes trainers simply do not know enough about their subject matter to be effective trainers. There are two reasons for this. The trainer or organizations subscribes to the myth that anybody with training skills can teach any topic to anyone. Or, a trainer agrees to deliver training in a subject area he or she is unqualified in for business reasons, ignorance, or is simply told to do so by his or her boss. ^new (Added: 21-Oct-2009 Hits: 156 )

• Dangerous Training Tricks - Confusing Training With Therapy

  By Robert Bacal - Because many trainers lack significant education in psychology or other social sciences, and because both training and therapy have at least one common theme (helping people learn), it's not uncommon for trainers to be unable to draw the line between training (an area they may be competent in), and therapy (an area they are almost certainly not competent in). ^new (Added: 21-Oct-2009 Hits: 276 )

• Training Mistakes - Making Excuses and Refusing Responsibility When Learning Does Not Occur During Training

  By Robert Bacal - Can a principle that is TRUE actually result in problematic action if it is followed? Yes, indeed. It turns out that a common mistake made by trainers (and teachers) comes from following a principle that is absolutely true. ^new (Added: 21-Oct-2009 Hits: 194 )

• The "It Was A Bad Group" Syndrome - Common Trainer Mistake

  By Robert Bacal - If you've done any amount of training, you will realize that some groups are easy to work with. Participants can be eager to learn from the training seminar, be active when you want them to be active, non-disruptive and helpful. But that's not always the case. Sometimes some or many participants in the group attending a seminar want to be somewhere else, don't want to participate in activities, are relatively inert, and so on. ^new (Added: 21-Oct-2009 Hits: 221 )

• The "I'm Just Giving Them What They Want" Syndrome

  By Robert Bacal - It's easy for trainers to fall into the trap of giving the client what he or she asks for. For example, a client comes to Trainer John and says: "We need a full day of training on communication skills, since poor communication is the cause of many of our problems in this company." Trainer John replies: "Ok. Sure, I can do that. When do you want the seminar?" And off they go. ^new (Added: 21-Oct-2009 Hits: 386 )

• Challenging the myths about learning and training in small and medium-sized enterprises : implications for public policy? Research

  By David Ashton, Johnny Sung, Arwen Raddon, Trevor Riordan - Draws on the results of recent research on the process of skills learning and training in small enterprises as a way of exploring some of the implications for policy makers and their advisers. ^new (Added: 21-Oct-2009 Hits: 270 )

• Reading Rockets: Ten Myths About Learning to Read

  By S. Wren - There are many beliefs and a great deal of dogma associated with reading acquisition, and people are often reluctant to let go of their beliefs despite contradictory research evidence. Here are 10 of the most popular and most potentially pernicious myths that influence reading education. ^new (Added: 21-Oct-2009 Hits: 503 )

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