Improving Retention

Unless you're goal is to tickle their ears, you should care deeply about helping people learn and improving their retention of that knowledge (which includes applying it in obedience to God to change lives!).

Darryl Wilson gives some tips here.

The key is always to increase the interactivity with the content, and engage more of the brain in the process. That's why I'm an advocate of dialogue and conversation, using questions effectively, and helping people learn more between group meetings (see my book).