A comfortable learning environment for your learners can boost engagement and increase completion rates. But what exactly makes a learning environment comfy? In this post, we'll break down the major types of training styles that your individual learners might prefer – and how to cater to them.

The key to improving learner engagement and knowledge retention is to not be concerned with the validity of learning styles as innate personal characteristics (that's for pedagogic research to determine). Nor should you give in to conventional "wisdom" about which kind of training works best for each generation.

Instead, focus on the training styles that your learners prefer. Once you have determined their learner preferences, you can design courses that match them. And while you may not be able to include every training style in every course, you will be able to make certain tweaks if you know you have a few different learner types. And these tweaks can make all the difference.