Effective Knowledge Transfer

The transfer of knowledge from an expert/teacher to a learner/student is one of the most inefficient and highly stressful processes that people must endure. The problem is that within days people forget most everything they are taught, rendering most of their training time and effort useless. Why do corporations, institutions, schools and businesses do this? Because it has always been done this way.

Many organizations are exploring ways of delivering learning via the Internet (e-learning) that reduces the overall cost of training. Not a bad idea. If you reduce the cost of an ineffective process, this will lessen the pain. The learner, however, does not feel the cost pain of training, only the corporate finance people do. The learner’s pain has not changed; if anything it has increased. Providing an electronic library card and calling it training does not produce an effective learning outcome.

Using the PLSystem®, our customers create learning communities with a focus on long-term retention and subsequent application of knowledge. Our solution is ideally suited for the transfer of mission critical knowledge in areas of your organization where it is important that people retain eighty to ninety percent of the essential knowledge months after they have completed their training. Mission critical knowledge includes business processes, product, and other knowledge that drives the success of your business.

The PLS learning model produces demonstratable gains in knowledge retention coupled with a significant reduction in test score variation when compared to other technology-based learning systems. The PLS learning model has been shown to increase knowledge retention many fold measured months after the training has been completed.