Mastering Information Overload:
Speed Reading & Memory Skills

1 day

Audience

Supervisors, managers, executives, engineers, technical professionals and any professional who may feel  overwhelmed by the high volume of written and spoken information received on the job.

Description

Stay on top of the competition...by staying on top of information!  This seminar gives you the skills to read and listen more effectively...to comprehend ideas and information from all sources of business communication fully and accurately...and to create memories and retain information when needed.

Goals/Objectives

·   Keep up with news that affects your business, career, industry and company

·   Make better informed decisions

·   Stay on top of technical information that affects your life, your job

·   Keep abreast of the competition

·   Gain confidence and competence in being able to get through piles of information to satisfy your needs

Outline/Table of Contents

Learning Objectives

·   Assess and Draw upon Personal Reading Strengths

·   Adopt Efficient Reading Techniques and Strategies for a Variety of Documents

·   Improve Reading Comprehension and Retention Skills

·   Organize Thoughts for Better Recall

·   Be More Active in Meetings

Reading Theory and Mechanics

·   Benefits of Learning to Read Using a New, More Efficient Method

·   Reasons and Causes of Most Inefficient Adult Reading

·   Reading Is Thinking

·   Overcoming the Inefficiencies of Linear Subvocal Reading

·   Physical Reading Skills to Help You Become a More Flexible and Strategic Reader

·   A Flexible System for Approaching Comprehension

Building Comprehension

·   A Flexible System for Building Comprehension

·   The True Nature of Comprehension as a Thinking Process

·   Generating Your Own Thinking While Reading

·   Guiding Yourself and What to Look for in Each Stage of the Comprehension Process

·   Factors That Affect the Efficiency of Comprehension

Memory and Recall

·   Differences between Comprehension, Memory, and Recall

·   Creating Memory

·   The Roles of Organization and Association in Creating Memory

·   Making a Visual System of Notes Utilizing a Variety of Patterns for Recall

How to Study: Depth Reading-Technical Reading

·   Learning-What the Research Laboratories Have Discovered about Maximizing Our Time in a Learning Session

·   The Environmental Conditions for Productive Learning

·   The Mental Conditions for Optimal Learning

·   Using the Multi-Pass Process for Technical Reading

·   Applying Your New Skills to Technical Reports, Following Directions, Business Correspondence, Reading Novels, and Efficient Newspaper Reading

Time Efficient Reading for Business Correspondence

·   Dynamically Reading the Novel

·   Reading Newspapers the Dynamic Reading Way

·   Getting through Your Daily Newspaper in 15-20 Minutes

·   Reading a Whole Book in One Sitting

Memory and Recall-Part Two: Remembering from Other Information Sources

·   Basics of Memory Creation

·   The Link System-Secret of the Ancients

·   Work Examples

·   Factors Affecting Memory

·   Absentmindedness vs. State Dependence

·   Recalling Sequenced Information

·   Using the Peg System

·   Recalling Names

·   Recalling Numbers, Dates, Specs., Etc.

·   Recall Patterns/Memory Maps for Meetings

·   Team or Small Group Recall