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Rapid reading
1 or 2 days
Workshop outline
This workshop teaches techniques for reading business correspondence and reports, newspapers, magazines and professional journals faster, with improved comprehension and retention. The ultimate aim is get you through your paperwork faster and 'smarter', without cluttering up your desk or your mind with the unnecessary. Delegates who spend hours a day reading at work can save half that time or more, every working day. Forever.
Participants will learn to:
- Assess their present reading speed and comprehension
- Understand what reading is and what affects it
- Identify bad, slow-you-sown reading habits
- Learn new, speed-you-up reading habits
- Improve comprehension and retention
- Adapt to different kinds of reading materials
- Find information fast
- Assess their final reading speed and comprehension
Workshop content
Introduction
- Adviser and delegates: why are we here?
- The course: objectives, structure and methods
Initial assessment of delegates
- Reading speed and comprehension
- Comparison to the general population
Barriers to better reading
- Factors which influence our reading
- Controllable versus uncontrollable factors
How we read
- Eye movements: fixations and saccades
- What determines speed and comprehension
Increasing reading speed
- Identifying old, bad habits
- Developing new, good habits
Increasing comprehension and retention
- A four-step plan
- Active versus passive reading
- Improving concentration
Reading smarter
- Reading with the “Gears”: flexible reading
- Recognising and using the structure
- Skimming and scanning: finding information fast
Final assessment of delegates
- Reading speed and comprehension
- Comparison to the initial assessment
Action session
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Tel: +44 (0)208 385 7511
Email: shyrose@centre4learning.co.uk |
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