BY KEN PHILLIPS What is arguably the most prevalent issue facing learning professionals today? The answer is scrap learning - the gap between training that is delivered but not applied on the job. It's the opposite of training transfer. It's also a critical issue for both learning and development (L&D) and the | 40 organization's L&D supports because it wastes money and time. Two studies, one by Rob Brinkerhoff and Timothy Mooney in 2008 and one by KnowledgeAdvisors in 2014, found scrap learning to be 85% and 45% respectively in the average organization. I've conducted three scrap learning studies over the past several years with three different organizations - each using a different training program - and found the scrap learning percentages associated with the programs to be 64%, 48% and 54%. Combining the scrap learning