The Neuroscience Behind The Successful Talent Development
The approach you’ve chosen for your training program is crucial in the success of the L&D strategy, which is vital for a company’s growth and important to executives, as the efficiency of training affects productivity.
It’s crucial to correlate a training platform features and user experience with the specifics of the human brain and mind at work — only in this way can your learning strategy be resourceful and effective. Today we want to share some most interesting findings in neuroscience that’ll help you to understand how the human brain works and how your training platform should be structured to boost the learning outcomes of your employees.
Neuroscience: A brief intro
When you learn a new skill, your body — your brain, specifically — is changing its structure. Here are some core elements that the human learning process is based on.
- Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to transform its neural structure when we do, learn, or experience something new and get used to it. In other words, it’s the brain’s adaptive capability.
- Neurogenesis is the production of neurons.
- Neurons are our nerve cells.
- Synapses are structures between neurons (or neurons and other body cells). Through these structures, neurons “communicate” with electric or chemical signals.
If we learn to do something, our body creates new neurons that “communicate”, creating new neural connections. If the learning is efficient, the connections between neurons strengthen and signals run through them faster, and we see that we can, for instance, start to speak Spanish without effort: it’s in our long-term memory now. On the contrary, if learning is not efficient, and we, for instance, fail to practice Spanish regularly, freshly established neural connections weaken, the signal slows, “conversation” stops, and you remember nothing about this language.
When implementing training, make sure that the learning system takes into consideration the principles of how neurons of new skills “talk” to each other.
