Leaning into Nostalgia to Create Effective Learning Activities

When you’ve managed to make your training activity attention-grabbing, interactive, and engaging, is your job done? Not quite. As training designers and facilitators, we’re also responsible for making sure our learners can connect their ah-ha moments to the real world, and that’s where the art of the debrief comes in. Even if you’re running short on time, making sure that your learners have a chance to think a little more deeply about what they learned and experienced will go a long way to making sure they can and will apply their key lessons learned.

Ever notice how a familiar theme song, toy, or game can instantly transport a room full of adults back to childhood? That’s not just a fun icebreaker moment; it’s your brain’s memory and emotion systems doing exactly what makes learning stick. Emotional connection in your training session will boost retention, but we must be honest about the pitfalls of assuming everyone shares the same nostalgic touchstones.

Join Endurance Learning’s Director of L&D Client Relationships, Erin Clarke, and SMART Recovery USA’s Gus Curran, Sr. Director, Training and Program Development, as they walk through the steps they took to upgrade SMART Recovery’s existing elearning modules. You’ll leave this webinar inspired from their story and ready to use an elearning assessment to review your existing elearning.