How to Help Your Employees Learn

What They Need to Know

How does learning work?

How should training work?

How to Help Your Employees Learn

What They Need to Know

How do we learn?

I taught them that,

but they didn’t learn it

-A Failed Teacher

I taught them that,

but they didn’t learn it

-A Failed Teacher

Wrong goal?

Wrong approach?

How do we learn?

I hear and I forget

I see and I remember

I do and I understand

- Confucius

ROPES: How to structure any class

ROPES: How to structure any class

• Review

• Overview

• Presentation

• Exercise

• Summary

ROPES: How to structure any class

ROPES: How to structure any class

• Review (5-10%)

• How we got here

• Conduct a review of the learners general

knowledge and experience

• Review key points from last time

ROPES: How to structure any class

• Review (5-10%)

• Overview (10-15%)

• What we’re doing today

• How this fits into the overall picture

• Connect the learner to the material to set

context and build motivation

ROPES: How to structure any class

• Review (5-10%)

• Overview (10-15%)

• Presentation (25-35%)

• Information (Details, Theory, Examples)

• Demo

ROPES: How to structure any class

• Review (5-10%)

• Overview (10-15%)

• Presentation (25-35%)

• Exercise (35-50%)

• Practice to build and reinforce skills

ROPES: How to structure any class

• Review (5-10%)

• Overview (10-15%)

• Presentation (25-35%)

• Exercise (35-50%)

• Summary (5%)

• What just happened?

• Reflection

• What’s easy? / What’s hard?

• How can this be applied?

• What’s next?

ROPES: How to structure any class

• Review (5-10%)

• Overview (10-15%)

• Presentation (25-35%)

• Exercise (35-50%)

• Summary (5%)

Ropes Demonstration: The Pen Trick

Review

Ropes Demonstration: The Pen Trick

Review

Overview

Ropes Demonstration: The Pen Trick

Review

Overview

Presentation

The Pen Trick

Step 1

The Pen Trick

Step 2

The Pen Trick

Step 3

The Pen Trick

Step 4

The Pen Trick

Step 5

The Pen Trick

Step 6

The Pen Trick

Step 7

The Pen Trick

Step 8

The Pen Trick

Step 9

Ropes Demonstration: The Pen Trick

Review

Overview

Presentation

Exercise

Ropes Demonstration: The Pen Trick

Review

Overview

Presentation

Exercise

Summary

Summary: How do we learn?

I hear and I forget

I see and I remember

I do and I understand

- Confucius

Thank you!

tsimon@microsoft.com