Why Your Team Forgot 90% of Your Training (And How to Fix It)

Here is a painful stat: According to the "Forgetting Curve," humans forget about 50% of new information within one hour and 70% within 24 hours.

Think about your last training session. You spent hours preparing the slides. You spoke for 60 minutes. By tomorrow morning, your team will remember almost none of it.

If you are just lecturing, you are burning budget. To make training stick, you need to switch from Passive Consumption to Active Recall.

The Solution: The "Micro-Quiz"

Don't wait until the end of the month to test knowledge. Use RiLiFi Quizzes to test it in the moment.

1. The "Wake Up" Check

Every 10 minutes, stop the slide deck. Launch a 1-question poll.

• "Based on what I just said, which of these is the new security protocol?"

This forces the brain to retrieve the information immediately, which resets the Forgetting Curve.

2. Gamify the Boring Stuff

Compliance training (Security, HR policies) is notoriously dry. Turn it into a competition.

Create a leaderboard. Give a prize ($5 coffee card) to the winner. Suddenly, people aren't just clicking "Next" to finish the video; they are reading the fine print to win the game.

3. The "Pre-Test"

Before you teach, quiz them. It sounds backward, but studies show that guessing an answer (even wrongly) primes the brain to look for the correct solution later.

Conclusion

Training isn't about "completion rates." It's about retention. If they don't remember it, it didn't happen.

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