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Bite Size Is the Right Size

How do I best use imapMyTeam or some variation of that question is often asked of us. The answers are as different as all of the people and types of businesses that are imapMyTeam users (Thank you for being a user!).

In all of that variance there is one constant and that is bite size is the right size.

A recent Wall Street Journal article cited several research studies in traditional classroom training.  Fewer than 15% of participants successfully apply what they learn; within 30 days, 80% of content is forgotten and that figure jumps to 90% after a year! That does not mean you should not train; it means you need to support training with something else.

That brings us to the importance of microlearning.

imapMyTeam is a perfect microlearning platform.  Microlearning is generally characterized by low time commitment, small chunks, short effort and narrow topics – but, complex as a whole.

Many imapMyTeam users, after the initial burst of logging in and looking at everything they possibly can, settle in and adopt a technique of running a single report on a topic that is important and relevant to them at the moment. It typically takes less than 5 minutes to log in, read and understand what to do next. The learning is immediately applied and learning that is immediately applied is retained. Microlearning!

How to use imapMyTeam? On most occasions it should be in, out, small chunk, short time frame on a narrow/focused topic, with immediate application of the learning.  Of course there are exceptions to the rule, it can be used differently – and that will be a topic for another day.  For now, bite size is the right size.