About Geoff Rip

Geoff Rip is the Founder and Principal Designer at Training That Works. He is a highly experienced and passionate learning professional with rich and diverse knowledge. He specialises in quality production of end to end learning, utilising social learning and technology, with a dedicated focus on increasing capability resulting in performance uplift.

Key takeaways:

• Transfer is a learning process. L&D experts tend to brush over this part, but they need to view it as a fundamental part – we need to be designing for transfer
• Retrieval practice is about pulling learning from the brain as opposed to pushing information into the brain. Techniques include mind-mapping, multiple choice questions and storytelling.
• Reflection is a key skill for each step, so it shouldn’t be left to just the end. This is a great way to help people become ‘self-directed experiential learners’, and can be done through a variety of ways including coaching.

Segmented time stamps:

• (01:56) The main challenges with transferring learning into practise in the workplace
• (05:10) Fitting in formative assessment with learning transfer
• (06:33) What is retrieval practice?
• (12:25) The definition of ‘spacing’
• (13:34) Why it’s so important to help people apply what they have learnt
• (19:01) How to design cycles into the learning experience
• (27:02) Geoff’s top advice for increasing the transfer of learning

Links from the podcast:

• Connect with Geoff onLinkedIn
• Read ‘How I Obsessively Learned 90 Skills in Only 3 Years’