Every day we are attacked with an avalanche of news, social media posts, advertisements, articles, and more. At all hours of the day and night, our family and friends mail and text us. The amount of visual, audio, and emotional stimulation supplied to our brains is just astounding—and continues to be expanding all the time. So, how can you assist your workers to screen out all of this element while they're at some task, so they can concentrate, retain the information they require, and enhance their consciousness, becoming more productive and effective at their work? Here are some excellent suggestions and methods to pass on:
Working in chunks of time is the most effective approach to stay focused on a task. This engagement supports employees acquire knowledge and remember that information even when all sorts of other elements are demanding attention. While the ideal period differs from person to person, clusters of about thirty minutes of work are the most productive method to structure your workday.
We all have finite attention spans, and there is a point at which staring at the same system for more and more periods will appear in less efficiency and makes the employee tired. There is an easy solution for this problem just gave them a break whenever they are tired or stressed. Thus the worker will reduce his stress by drinking water, listening to his favorite song, talking with his colleague, and did other activities that make his mind fresh. Simply ask your staff to do something different for a few minutes every half hour, and you'll see a significant improvement in their knowledge retention.
Remember how the school provided an environment to study at the same desk? The same idea operates in the office. Even if your organization has an open workplace where employees are not assigned to specific desks or other workstations, you'll find that if they return to the same area day after day for certain activities or projects, they'll focus better and remember more.
Tell your staff that if they want to recall anything, they should use all of their senses at the time they are getting it. So don't just pay attention during a meeting. You should also take notes, which you may go over afterward. Take note of the aroma of the coffee in your mug; when you correlate other senses with specific information, it helps you remember it better. You could even want to have a conversation with your coworkers about the meeting to assist you to recall more. Howard Earl Gardner, a developmental psychologist, and Harvard University professor, thinks that humans learn in a variety of ways and that it is beneficial to integrate many ways of processing knowledge whenever feasible if we want to remember it.
Encourage your staff to come up with visual aids such as acronyms or rhymes to assist them to recall crucial details. Mnemonics are particularly beneficial for remembering lists of objects or steps in a procedure.
One of the most reliable methods to assure that your workers retain information is to request them to explain it to someone else. If one agent attends a coaching session, have that worker explains what he or she acquired at the session to the rest of the partners. Not only will the employee pay more attention and take better notes as a result of the teaching expectation, but preparing to share the knowledge will also help the employee learn and grasp the content. This is because the employee will be expected to describe the training session, be expected to address questions about that, and maybe even provide a hands-on demonstration.
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