"Oh man, I forgot again. How long have I been in this business? What is the capacity of an STM-1? I haven't had to retrieve that brain cell in the last 60 days -- OC-3, it's the same, as an OC-3, 155MB, yeah, yeah, I think.... Yeah that's right. Now if I could only remember the bandwidth capacity of our competitors..." and so it goes, another 10 seconds in the life of the busy__ VP/Account Manager/Sales Engineer___, you fill in the blank, the roles vary, much of the information stays the same -- for this week anyway.
Our day to day business life is plagued by information overload--overflowing email inboxes, pages upon pages of search engine results, stacks of manuals collecting dust. There is a need for general knowledge, but when it comes to the critical pieces that you must learn as soon as possible and remember for the long haul, you just want to get to the point. Rather than linger over a buffet of information you have to sort through to figure out what is most important to digest, it's best if the main dish is set right in front of you with exactly what you need to feed your brain, your business, and ultimately your bottom line.
Is your team exposed, everyday to the most important things they need to know?
You've heard the saying "Less is more." Well, that goes for knowledge too. You might say, "What?!" But seriously, less IS more. In the information age it's easy for us to attempt to gorge, only to figure out our eyes are bigger than our stomachs (or in this case our eyes are bigger than our long-term memories). Like any other life balance strategy it's best to figure out what we need first and balance our information diet accordingly. So what makes up the dish that InTime Learning is serving? The first ingredient is small, very small -- Nano-learning.
Nano-learning consists of small segments--90 seconds, 3 minutes, 10 minutes, you name it, smaller is in fact better. Nano-learning is the equivalent of watching an ad, except the ad is about a new skill or bit of relevant information that you need to get your job done. Instead of having to digest a seven course meal , your team brings specific bites of information to you on highly relevant topics.
So what good is it to taste one little bite of a dish? "I can't truly fill myself up without having some more", you think. You can have as much or as little as you want at once and once you are done you can come back for the same thing over and over, or try something completely different. This will allow you to be confident that you in fact know what you know.
With learning--tastes of information over time allow you to more easily retain and comprehend material and as a result more confidently apply it and innovate from it. InTime Learning's second ingredient is repetition. InTime Learning's second ingredient is repetition.
No matter how good the dining experience may be, sometimes we just don't have time to warm-up the seat of a restaurant. Kudos to the inventor of the drive-thru! Some are even open 24 hours a day and we can get breakfast for lunch, dinner and even for breakfast! We get to choose our sides--you name it, convenience and flexibility to meet our individual needs is the order of the day.
At InTime Learning we know that you sometimes (let's face it--oftentimes) don't have time to be a seat warmer in a traditional classroom or even a traditional meeting. And isn't it too bad we can't tell that instructor to start the class at 10am because we're not a morning person! Nope, that's not happening! But what if you had all that control in the palm of your hands? The third ingredient is customization.
"I wish all the members of my team would get this new process down. We just don't have time to have any more training on this. But upper management will be here next week and our projects will have to slow down so we can get this stuff to sink in. They were supposed to have all this down last week. I wish I could find a way to be sure they're keeping up with all of these changes. It'd be nice if I could make it more appealing so they'd want to do it, but I don't have time to create anything like that..." ~ The Change Craving Manager
Whether you're a morning person, night person, if you're constantly on the road, or in the office running from meeting room to meeting room, InTime Learning can provide you with critical information from the source. "Who is the source?" you're wondering. Knowledge bearers as we like to call them, come in all shapes and sizes. SMEs (Subject Matter Experts), product managers, engineers, and yes even instructors can have critical knowledge to share with your team. InTime Learning is meant to deliver timely information to your team, from the people that know them best - each other. Everyone is an instructor and everyone is a student. Who knows your team better? Who knows what is of timely importance this week, this month, this quarter? Who knows where the knowledge gaps are and what others need to know to backfill them? Only the members. Wisdom is a property of teams.
InTime learning material is easier to create than new slide presentation. The information has to be equally as concise and to the point as a slide presentation, but with wider distribution and better retention. Everyone gets to the see the information one on one and many times over, when they are ready for it. And last but not least the last ingredient is interaction.
InTime learning uses interactive techniques such as questions/answers and gaming to make sure that your knowledge diet has flavor. This simple method of encouraging friendly competition allows us to create an environment that is naturally conducive to repetition of information and thereby truly digesting and absorbing the material. We keep score for every individual, including top rankings for the team. This simple method of competition allows us to create an environment that is conducive towards repeating information and thereby truly digesting and absorbing the material.
The end result is that for the first time since ... well perhaps ever, we can track retention of knowledge. When was the last time you attended a class and took a post test 3 months later? InTime learning is so easy to use and deploy that doing this is not only simple, it's fun! You can track baseline knowledge, then progress as learning takes place and finally perform a post analysis, all while playing a game.
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With InTime Learning your team can work more effectively. Our product formalizes the transfer of information and delivers it like no other method so you can:
- Learn anywhere, anytime.
- Customize content.
- Leverage your individual peak learning time and situation.
- Truly retain and apply.
- Be entertained by the presentation to keep your attention because you're engaged.
- Push information out with minimal turnaround time.
- Track and test actual learning.
And all this is literally right in the palm of your hands!
We help knowledge bearers transfer what they know to the whole team so each team member can draw from the expertise and experiences of the others. This makes for powerful workgroups that can perform at the top of their game. This is what drives real change throughout your organization.