PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT

CHAPTER LEARNING EVENT

Beyond Memorization:

Making Learning Memorable

Applying the four-step memory creation process in instructional design to improve employee performance.

Want to improve your employees’ performance? Improve their ability to remember what’s expected.

Our employees’ ability to successfully perform to expectations depends on their ability to recall the details of the expected behaviors in the moment they should apply them. That’s a cognitively demanding process— learn and practice the behavior, retain the details of the behavior, wait, recall the details and perform the behavior.

So how can we help our learners create the behavior memory that will serve them well when they need it?

In this session Amy will map out ways we can apply the existing research in brain processes to our learning and development initiatives. She’ll walk through the four main stages of memory creation and how designers can apply them to learning experiences employees will remember.

She’ll showcase memorable learning solutions that support:

• ·       An increase in learners’ attention, investment, and engagement using appropriate activities and materials.
• ·       Personalized options for encoding new behaviors that will transfer to on-the-job tasks.
• ·       Effective timing and tools to increase learners’ mental storage of new information.
• ·       Modalities and materials for learners’ timely recall of behavior that will become effective performance of expected behaviors.

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Presenter: Amy Miller Weiland (she/her)

Amy Miller Weiland (she/her) is an award-winning L&D leader with 19 years of experience in corporate education. She has focused the last 15 years of her career to help training teams build learning solutions for effective employee performance to reach their business objectives. Amy has served in various roles including Director of Training and Development and Vice President of Consulting. She currently works at AllenComm as a Performance Strategy Manager where she oversees a team of brilliant Performance Consultants and Learning Strategists.

Her creative yet pragmatic approach to professional development has contributed to the learning ecosystems at large organizations including Verizon, Disney Interactive, General Electric, Aetna, Panera, Nordstrom, State Farm, and Walmart.

Academic background in Psychology with a focus on brain processes shapes her behavior-driven designs. She couples cognitive psychology principles with adult learning theories to create memorable training learners can confidently apply to their daily tasks.

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Reach out to Megan for registration questions.

Topics and speakers are subject to change without notice. Refunds may be issued up to five days before the event.