Webinar Recap: From Learning Events To Learning Journeys
June 24, 2025
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4 min read
Where one-time standalone training falls short in today’s fast-paced business landscape, continuous learning experiences build momentum, improve retention, and create meaningful growth in the workplace. By creating an intentional learning culture that’s embedded into everyday work, ongoing learning journeys – including coaching – have the potential to create lasting behavior change.
In this insightful conversation, gain practical approaches to evolve your team’s learning approach and support lasting growth in the clips below featuring TaskHuman coaches Tara O’Brien and Reita Johnston.
Transform Single Training Events Into Continuous Learning Experience
Consider a recent training you participated in. What has stuck with you? What action did you take afterwards? Many isolated learning events lose momentum. In fact, without follow-up or context application, learners will forget approximately 75% of what they have learned within a week (Source: Harvard Business Review). Identify how to retain, reinforce, and apply information regularly with Coach Reita below.
Key Takeaways:
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Reinforcement drives retention: Lasting behavior change and opportunities to apply learned knowledge are necessary to retain information.
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Learning is most effective when embedded into daily life through practices including regular touchpoints, scheduled follow-ups, and feedback.
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Learning journeys provide structure and momentum (think milestones in an onboarding process), and demonstrate that learning and personal growth are an important part of company culture.
The Role Of Coaching In Continuous Learning
“Coaching is the connective tissue between learning and doing,” shares Coach Reita. Coaching can create accountability, encourage reflection, address challenges in real-time, and create space for creativity rooted in growth and self-awareness.
Cultivate Self-Directed Learning Cultures Through Accessible Expertise
Empowering individuals to take charge of their learning can deepen engagement, confidence, and capability. Self-directed learning is a collaborative process where someone can identify and share skills they’d like to gain or improve, and managers or HR professionals can support the journey through coaching and regular check-ins. Learn more from Coach Reita below.
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Self-directed learning (SDL) is when individuals take initiative in identifying their learning needs, setting goals, finding resources, and evaluating outcomes.
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The role of HR professionals in SDL is to provide guidance and support, ask questions about the application, and encourage reflection rather than micromanage the process.
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True progress means creating a learning environment adopted by all levels of the team, from leadership to non-leader staff. A leadership team that demonstrates an interest and ability to actively learn and grow gives agency to others to do the same.
Build Learning Ecosystems That Integrate With Daily Workflow
How can your team or organization embed learning and coaching into the fabric of daily work? The key is to ensure development is continuous, relevant, and sustainable by creating an environment that enables learning to happen all the time. Get strategies to build your learning ecosystem with Coach Tara below.
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Coaching can be a powerful tool to integrate learning into daily life, meeting people where they’re at in their learning journeys based on the projects and priorities they’re navigating in real time.
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Coach Tara shares how important it is to embed learning into people’s existing schedules: “We often talk a lot about being a lifelong learner. And sometimes that gets translated into, ‘well, go get another certificate’…or ‘what book are you reading on your own time?’ Whereas this makes this lifelong learning really embedded into the workday.”
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Leaders can encourage micro-learning through small prompts, sharing articles, or thought-provoking questions.
Learning doesn’t stop when a training or session ends; rather, it’s the entry point to the application and integration into your daily life. Connect with a Coach 1:1 to create a learning journey strategy specific to your work context.
Webinar recorded May 2025. To view the full webinar, including a Q&A, head here.