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By Sharon Lipinski
CEO, Habit Mastery Consulting
Didn't We Do Training on That?
I4 Strategies to Reignite a Past Training Originally published in Excavation Safety Magazine and used by permission
f you held a training program 1. Teach Your Coworkers materials, coworkers can present the that didn’t stick, you’re not alone. Learning happens best when attendees key concepts to their peers.
According to a McKinsey study, get the opportunity to practice and Some critical questions for attendees only 25% of managers report
that training changes employees’ reflect on what they’ve learned, which to cover in their presentation might
performance. The other 75% are left wondering, “Didn’t we do training on that?”
At the 2024 Global Excavation Safety Conference, a 5-phase process was shared to help you avoid ineffective training events in the future. However, if it’s already happened, good news! All is not lost.
Here are four strategies for reigniting
a past training so you finally get the results you want. These strategies can be used individually or, as the case study will show, combined for powerful results.
makes a post-training peer-to-peer include:
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learning event a powerful strategy for amplifying the effectiveness of past training. If just a single team member has attended a training, that attendee can present the highlights to their peers. If multiple coworkers or an entire team participated in the same training, assign different parts among groups or individuals who demonstrate and teach on their assigned content.
Ask attendees to review the training materials, which might include the training manual, notes, job aids, and a bibliography of additional sources of information. After reviewing those
• What did you find interesting?
• What do your peers need to know about this?
• What did you change, or should you have changed as a result of this training?
• What should your peers change?
After the presentation, facilitate a discussion that allows the team to share their impressions, add personal experiences that add more context to the training, and identify action items they want to follow up on or implement as a result of this training.