Saw Dust or Gold Nuggets? Managing Information Overload with Accelerated Learning

Synopsis

Everyday, we are bombarded with 60,000 bits of information from the radio, television, newspapers, journals, books and the computer. In the new economy, there is an avalanche of information from the internet, intranet and info-communications. How do we sieve the wheat from the chaff? How do we identify gold dust from saw dust? Accessing and retaining the right details in the goldmine of information enable you to be a more resourceful manager.

Learning Objectives

This 2-day action-based workshop will enable you to:

• learn Brainscaping as a productive office tool
• read faster without loss of comprehension
• remember and recall without difficulty

Course Outline

The Brain

Your left and right brain

Multiple intelligences

The world's most creative genius

Baroque music and brain food

Basic Mapping

Short Notes

Sydergrams

Bubbles

Brainscaping

The rules and applications

Types of Brain Mapping

Wholebrain Reading

History of speed reading

Purpose of reading and reading styles

Your reading speed

Reading ergonomics

How to concentrate reading

Why people read slowly

Word by word, sub-vocalisation, regression, backskipping

Ways to increase your reading speed

Shorter fixation, reduce pausing and regression, stop

wandering, minimise vocalisation

How to increase your eye power

Control of eye movements

Vertical and horizontal peripheral vision

Skimming and scanning skills

Reading Skills

How to turn a page

How to break a book

Pacing techniques: Finger, Pencil

Ways to improve vocabulary

Reading newspapers, magazines and email

Instructional Methodology

Lecturettes, videos, self assessment, brainscaping exercises and presentation. Participants are required to bring two books for brainscaping and wholebrain reading.

This workshop is facilitated by trainers from HardKnocksCollege.com