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Your Trainees Learn Hardly Anything in the Classroom: Learn The Surprising Facts About the 70:20:10 Model
Three Minute Train the Trainer Series #16
This is #16 of the Three Minute Train the Trainer Series for newbie and wannabe training professionals.
What the heck is the 70:20:10 model?
Not the most intuitive named model, the 70:20:10 model is all about how much we learn in the classroom, being coached, and doing the job.
It’s an important model to know as many of our clients and internal customers expect all the learning to happen in the classroom.
The 70:20:10 model posits that only 10% of learning takes place in the classroom.
The rest of the learning takes place via on-the-job training (20%) and doing the job over several months (70%).
Unless an interested line manager or trainer takes an interest, the trainee forgets most of what they have learned in the classroom in weeks.
Why does this happen?
The training doesn’t stick when the trainee hasn’t had on-the-job coaching after the classroom training or hasn’t been allowed to practice what they have learned.
