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During the first five minutes of any software trial, you have to make one decision: Should I invest more time learning about this software or should I move on to something else? When you start your ScreenSteps trial, it's no different. You need to decide if ScreenSteps is something you should dedicate more time to learning about and whether you should use it in your organization. To help you make that decision, I recommend starting off doing five things.
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When you begin authoring in ScreenSteps, you'll notice that the editor looks a little different than what you see in Word or Google Docs. In this video, I'll show you the basic ScreenSteps editor and how it will help you create better guides for your employees and your customers.
You know that you need a great knowledge base to do Zero-Memorization Training, but what does a great knowledge base look like? Check out the video below and keep on reading to find out.
If you know about Zero-Memorization Training but aren't sure how it would look if you implemented it in your employee training program, check out the video below to learn what it looks like.
If you are in charge of training employees at your company, and you're tired of how long it takes for new-hires to independently do their job, then you're going to love the Zero Memorization Training approach.
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When a manager sits down to "train" a new employee, the main focus is almost always on how to use the system. But that approach leaves everybody frustrated. The employee doesn't actually know the context of when she should be doing those actions, NOR can she remember everything the manager showed her. And the manager is frustrated because he notices that the employee seems to constantly interrupt him with questions. It's a lose-lose-lose (the system loses in this case, too) situation. Instead of only focusing on showing employees how a system works, I recommend focusing on all 3 of these elements:
For learning to occur, two requirements must be met: 1) you must have a teacher who is ready to teach, and 2) you must have a learner who is ready to learn.
Our brains struggle to remember more than 5-7 things. We just aren't very good at remembering more than that. But our brains are very good at chunking information. Chunking information is the process where we break up large amounts of information into manageable chunks. It's almost like putting things into folders. Let's look at how this works with phone numbers in the United States. I live in Northern Virginia just outside of Washington DC. There are basically three area codes that I usually run into: 703, 571 (which are both in Northern Virginia), and 202 which is Washington, DC.
As a Documentation Admin and Trainer you may feel that you are being asked to do the impossible: Make your training engaging Keep it short Make sure you cover everything How can you cover everything that you need your team to know, keep it engaging AND do it all in a 1-hour session?
