Studies show that attending a good training event will produce about 23% behavioral change. That’s not much change for the amount of time, money, and energy put into these events. The same studies show that if you follow up training with some kind of coaching, average behavioral change increased to 89%. That’s a huge difference. The problem is, we have more trainees than coaches to do the follow up. Rather than throw our hands up and say, “oh well,” let me show you a way to automate follow up for free.
4 Keys to Follow Up Well
Follow up is essential because of “human nature.” Between procrastination, our lack of confidence in the new skill, and many other things competing for attention it’s easy to put off implementation of what we learned for a less busy time. However, there probably will never be a less busy time!
4 keys to follow up well are: