Using Neuroscience for More Effective L&D

Getting Your Brain to Learn to Learn

• Using neuroscience in training
• What is neuroscience and why is it relevant to you?
• Challenges for designing and delivering learning
• Challenge: Busting learning myths

1. BASIC Ways to Reduce Learning

• B: Boredom, pain, and social isolation
• A: Abstract ideas vs. concrete experience
• S: Stress reduces learning
• I: Information overload gets you lost
• C: Cognitive overload is exhausting

2. What Trainers Need to Do for LEARNERS

• How to make learning sticky
• L: Link learning to make it memorable
• E: Emotions motivate and stick
• A: Attention is the art of memory
• R: Repetition, repetition, repetition
• N: Novel ideas are stickier
• E: Exercise for brain and body
• R: Recall, Review, and Recovery
• S: Stories transform data into learning

3. Why You Don't Need to Be a Neuroscientist

• Six questions you need to ask about research

Conclusion

• Challenge: Busting learning myths