Every learning experience produces one of two things: compliance or commitment. Compliance looks like participation: people show up, complete the activities, submit the reflection form. Commitment looks like something quieter and harder to measure: a learner who connects the content to a real problem, adapts an idea to their context, and returns to it without being asked. If you design professional learning, you've almost certainly built experiences that produced the first one when you were hoping for the second.

Think about the last professional learning experience you attended. Maybe it was useful. Maybe you even left with some notes or a sense of clarity. Now think about what you actually did with it once you got back to work. If the honest answer is "not much," you're not alone — and more importantly, you're not the reason it faded.