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Improve Training By Addressing 3 Key Learning Styles

Published on Fri Jan 22, 2010

Make sure your staffers get the most out of their in-service time. With OASIS C just beginning and the usual boatload of regulatory, operational, reimbursement, and clinical items needing attention, your training time will be at a premium this year. Make sure you tailor your training to your staff to make the most of your in-service events. Wake-up call: People dozing off in the back of the room may pay attention if the instructor crafts the educational sessions in a way that appeals to the way they learn best. As trainers, however, "we often tend to design training that appeals to our strengths," cautioned Maureen Sheahan, with PHI in Bronx, N.Y.,during a quality improvement webinar on staff training. But adults learn best when trainers vary teaching activities. For example, "some of us have to be in motion to learn," she noted. These are the "kinesthetic learners." Auditory learners love to [...]
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