You have to deliver a report to your boss in thirty minutes, but can’t seem to get your formulas to work in Excel. The leaky tap in your bathroom won’t stop running, and there’s no room in your budget to call a plumber.

What - if anything - do these scenarios have to do with microlearning?

Want to know the REAL secret to knowledge retention?

The ‘testing effect’ - also known as retrieval practice - is your secret weapon for combatting the forgetting curve and helping your employees remember training for longer. But is it really that simple?

Boss: "So we need to implement an onboarding program for new staff. Can you throw something together?"
You: "Sure, when do you need it?"
Boss: "Well... yesterday? But end of the week will do."
You: "🤯..."

As an instructional designer, you want to produce effective training that boosts employee performance AND delivers ROI. But is that realistic in the modern workplace, when schedules - and budgets - are squeezed to the limit?

A recent survey found that 43% of employees who receive formal training think it’s not very effective in helping them succeed at their job. Staff complain that training is boring, contains too much information, or isn’t frequent enough. It’s time to channel Marie Kondo and declutter your training library, focusing on content that will inspire and engage your learners - and boost your training ROI at the same time!