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Jul 30

Keeping Learning Sticky with Social Media, Part I

Trainers are using social media even more for learning new concepts, collaborating and networking with other facilitators, sharing inform...

Dr. TL Means

Feb 26

Self-Reflection and Making Training Stick

The Make Training Stick® Team hopes that your 2020 has gotten off to a great start! Self-reflection is the foundation of learning and de...

Dr. TL Means

Oct 31, 2019

Making Spooky Training Stick: Delivering Training on Sensitive Topics

Happy Halloween! As workplace learning and performance professionals, we sometimes have to provide education on scary, sensitive topics ...

Dr. TL Means

May 17, 2019

Attending an Upcoming Conference… Tips and Tricks to Get the Most from Your Attendance

As the Make Training Stick team prepares to attend the Association for Talent Development (ATD) International Conference and Expo in Wash...

Dr. TL Means

Mar 13, 2019

Making Training Stick by Getting Closer to the Trainee

When designing training, a learner-centered approach is recommended to improve the learning experience. Along with a learner-centered ap...

Dr. TL Means

Jan 23, 2019

Making Training Stick in 2019: Tips for Facilitators to Start the New Year

For the past decade Dr. Barbara Carnes and the Make Training Stick® Team have provided workplace learning professionals practical tips an...

Dr. TL Means

Dec 7, 2018

Santa’s Elves Make Training Stick (December 2018)

2018 has been an eventful year for Santa, Mrs. Claus, the Elves, and the Reindeer with so much to learn in preparation for Christmas! Ru...

Making Training Stick with a Growth Mindset

Dr. TL Means

Oct 24, 2018

Making Training Stick with a Growth Mindset

Sticky Note October 18, 2018 Mindsets can have a significant impact on learning transfer and application. Some thought leaders have even...

Self-Awareness and Making Training Stick

Dr. TL Means

Aug 16, 2018

Self-Awareness and Making Training Stick

Greetings! In the May Sticky Note Dr. Barbara Carnes told you that I, Dr. Tammy Means, would take a role in authoring new content. In Ju...

Announcement and Information about Intentions

Dr. TL Means

Apr 23, 2018

Announcement and Information about Intentions

Greetings! After many years writing about training transfer and “stickiness”, I’m excited to introduce Dr. Tammy Means who will be playi...

Letter to Self – Easy Closing Activity that Makes Training Stick

Dr. TL Means

Sep 15, 2017

Letter to Self – Easy Closing Activity that Makes Training Stick

One of the first closing activities I used was called a “letter to myself.” At the end of training, participants were asked to reflect ...

Dr. TL Means

Jul 7, 2017

Mindfulness to Make Training Stick

There is a lot of discussion these days about mindfulness at work and how it can help people do their jobs better. Companies of all size...

Planning and Prompting to Make Training Stick

Dr. TL Means

May 16, 2017

Planning and Prompting to Make Training Stick

Independent learning such as self-paced e-learning courses are used more and more in today’s workplace. When learning professionals don’...

Dr. TL Means

Feb 13, 2017

Learning Anxiety – and Making Training Stick

Edgar Schein, an author and consultant on change management points out that when a person is confronted with the prospect of learning som...

Dr. TL Means

Nov 15, 2016

Intention to Transfer – Will it Stick?

Many end-of-training evaluations ask participants to respond to a statement like this: “I plan to (or will be able to) apply this traini...

Making Training Stick and Bloom’s Action Verbs

Dr. TL Means

May 18, 2016

Making Training Stick and Bloom’s Action Verbs

Action verbs can be a handy tool to help make your training stick. I’ve discussed sticky objectives in a previous newsletter and in my w...

Trump University and Making Training Stick

Dr. TL Means

Mar 10, 2016

Trump University and Making Training Stick

Donald Trump’s Trump University has been in the news lately. Allegations are that while the organization purported to be an educational ...

Dr. TL Means

Oct 20, 2015

Multitasking and Making Training Stick

Multitasking is rampant today – almost everyone does it at one time or another. I attended a workshop recently and soon after it began I...

Big Bang’s Sheldon Shows Us How Not to Teach

Dr. TL Means

Aug 11, 2015

Big Bang’s Sheldon Shows Us How Not to Teach

I enjoy the TV sitcom Big Bang Theory. Apparently a lot of other people do too because reruns seem to appear often – on several channels...

Dr. TL Means

Jul 14, 2015

A Retention Aid – Interleaving

I recently went on a hiking vacation in Utah with a group of like-minded people. Our guide was a professional wildlife conservationist an...

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