Telling Ain't Training

Hit or Myth: What’s the Truth?

Chapter highlights:

Hit-or-myth game that separates fact from fiction about learning Research-based debriefing Practical advice on remaining vigilant in the face of tradition.

 

So much of what passes for accepted practice or stable truths in training is often counterproductive to the learning process and to workplace performance. Yet these apparent truisms get passed along from generation to generation of trainers. We have read whole treatises on how examining the shape of learners’ skulls and feeling their cranial bumps can help you better instruct them (that is, the 19th- and early 20th-century ...