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Why Most Training Fails (and How to Make Learning Stick) | Dr. Will Thalheimer
L&D teams measure success by learner satisfaction. But as Dr. Will Thalheimer explains, happy learners aren’t always capable performers.
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Why Most Training Fails (and How to Make Learning Stick) | Dr. Will Thalheimer
L&D teams measure success by learner satisfaction. But as Dr. Will Thalheimer explains, happy learners aren’t always capable performers.
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In this episode of The Pluralsight Podcast, Will breaks down why traditional training evaluations often miss the mark — and shares the four learning science principles that can dramatically improve results: retrieval practice, spacing, context alignment, and feedback.
Why Most Training Fails (and How to Make Learning Stick) | Dr. Will Thalheimer
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Josh Burkhead is a Senior Podcast Producer and Host at Pluralsight, where he leads the Pluralsight Podcast — a weekly conversation series built for L&D and technology leaders navigating the fast-moving world of AI, cybersecurity, cloud, and workforce development. With over two decades in content production, Josh brings a practitioner's curiosity to every episode. His approach is conversational and assumption-challenging — less interested in surface-level takes than in the decisions, tradeoffs, and hard-won lessons that leaders actually use. Whether he's pressing a PCI security standards architect on why policies fail in the real world or asking an AI expert what responsible machine learning actually looks like inside an enterprise, Josh treats every conversation as an opportunity to learn out loud alongside his audience.
