You and your employees experience this and you don’t even realize it’s happening, do you? Keep your eyes peeled for Blinks and Bottlenecks, and the cost you pay when developing your employee talent.

1. You
and
your
employees
experience this and
you don’t even realize
it’s happening, do you?
Keep your eyes peeled for
Blinks and
Bottlenecks
bottled in California by Talent Triggers

2. Keep your eyes peeled...

3. because if you blink...

4. you might miss
something very
important and
valuable
I’m about to
share with you.

5. Ever notice yourself consciously
starting your commute home...

6. and then ask yourself...
“How could I possibly
be home already?”

7. It felt like only a
few minutes had passed.*
*Assuming your commute is more than a few minutes.

8. Or you’re walking to lunch
with your coworkers...

9. enjoying the conversation...

10. and you’ve suddenly arrived.

11. What’s going on?

12. Are your
eyes still
peeled?

13. Good.

14. I was afraid you’d blink
and miss what I’m saying.

15. We experience something called
attentional blinks.

16. no, not
winks ;-)

17. blinks

18. In 1987, Broadbent and Broadbent
did a study to explore the concept that
the mind has a blind spot at times.

19. Here’s how their study went...

20. They flashed a series of 5-letter words
at about 10 every second.
SSSSS
DDDDD
HHHHH
CCCCC
ZZZZZ
PPPPP
KKKKK
AAAAA
MMMMM
XXXXX
time

21. Participants had to spot
2
particular words.

22. Normally,
we’d expect
to spot about
80%
of the targets.

23. but...

24. when one target followed another
less than a half second apart...
< 0.5
secs

25. ...participants
didn’t notice the
second item...

26. and the
average proportion
of correct reports
went down to nearly
0%

27. You could say the
participants’ attention
“blinked”
for a half second after
spotting the first target.

28. There’s a processing
bottleneck
happening here.

29. Essentially, our
limited capacity
for paying
attention
is a
botteneck.
Some things pass
through while we
miss others through
attentional
blinks.

30. Consider this the next time
you create and deliver...

31. mobile
e-learning
instructor-led
on-demand
or any
type of training

32. What’s the cost of
your employees
blinking at
something
important and
valuable you
share with them?

33. Get more
brain and behavior
science insights for
talent development.
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