It is a common error, and one that I made early in my career. Because bringing participants together is so costly to the company, and because it happens so infrequently, there is a natural tendency to cram as much information as possible into the available time.

How often have you attended a meeting or training session or taken an e-learning program and then failed at applying your learning to your job? Often this results from one of the following causes:
• Because the subject matter was brand new to you, you didn’t know what questions to ask in the class, so when you tried to apply your learning to your work, you find that you now have questions, but no resources available to answer those questions.