Accelerated Learning—Training Basics

Basics of Accelerated Learning

The guiding principle of accelerated learning is the use of suggestion through positive speaking, positive expectation, and positive feedback to learners. Positive suggestion is an advanced stage of speaking that creates and supports positive action. Accelerative trainers form the habit of developing positive learner expectations toward learning and performance, and of interacting positively with learners throughout the training.

“The purpose of effective learning is to provide effective training in a short time,” notes Mary Jane Gill of Bell Atlantic. AL stresses that the learning environment—everything from room arrangements to the trainer's attitude—have the following attributes:

• are positive and accepting