

Learning Boosts
(LURN-een BOO-sts)

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What is a Learning Boost?
Learning boosts are a learning program strategy in which learners are sent short pieces of information, activities, or quiz questions to boost retention of a particular topic or subject.
Other Common Names
Other common names for learning boosts include:
- Refreshers
- Nudges
Key Properties of Learning Boosts
- Small amounts of information, content, or questions sent to learners after a learning experience
- Require learners to recall and retrieve information
- Help the learned content in the learner’s short-term memory (helps fight the Forgetting Curve!)
- Focus exclusively on content already covered

Resources From The Train Like a Champion Blog
Insights that Flow Freely through What's Your Formula
- "No matter how important your content, how creative your design, or how engaging your delivery, people will forget things. They’ll forget important things. Unless they get a little nudge."
- "Perhaps you’ve watched a gameshow or you’ve been playing a knowledge- based game like Trivial Pursuit and you hear a question and you think to yourself: “Once upon a time I knew the answer to that . . . it’s on the tip of my tongue . . . give me a minute . . . meh, I don’t remember . . . what’s the answer?” Then you hear the answer and you swear you’ll never forget it again as long as you live."
- "No matter how self-motivated your participants are, ultimately it is their supervisor who can hold them accountable, encourage them to follow through on their goals, or (in the absence of goals) can encourage them to focus their attention elsewhere. For a training program to be effective, you’ll want to find ways to avoid that last scenario. Identifying potential strategies by which you can help supervisors set goals with their direct reports as well as make them aware of the goals participants craft for themselves can make the difference between an interesting training program and an effective training program."