The Forgetting Curve

by | March 2022

Are you getting the most of your training programs, such as, career and business development, leadership, time management, writing, and public speaking?

If your training programs are not followed up with coaching, the majority of your attorneys will not retain what was presented. Research shows an average of 50 percent of information received in a presentation is forgotten within one hour, after 24 hours 70 percent is forgotten, and within a week, a staggering 90 percent is gone. (This is the forgetting curve discovered by Hermann Ebbinghaus.) As stated in the Harvard Business Review, when training is reinforced with coaching, learning is retained, productivity increases, and firms receive a 7-fold return on investment in coaching.

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