Speedreading

Speed Reading and Reading Management

 

There has never been so much information at your fingertips as there is now. Web-sites, emails, reports, newspaper and magazines articles - all are great demands on your time. 

 

Yet how often when you read you lose the thread, your mind wanders and you end up retaining little.   You also take much longer than you need, read less than you could or should.

 

Bad Habits

 

You are probably still reading as you were taught when a child.  Since then, you have done little about your reading skills.  You will have developed bad habits which make your reading skills the least efficient of all your personal skills - yet at which you spend the most time! But you could improve dramatically - think of the positive personal impact on you if you could:

 

• Double or treble your reading speed,  yet retain accuracy  - permanently
• Learn to concentrate really well, understand more
• Retain more and be of greater value to those around you

 

 

The impact?  You would be better briefed, more knowledgeable on what matters in your business and personal world, and have more influence over others from your greater knowledge. 

 

Typical long-term results

 

Most people are capable of these sorts of long-term improvements, thereby saving time and being better briefed (results averaged from the many thousands who have done this type of training)

 

 

 

	Average reading speed	Retention rate
Start	230 words per minute	60%
Finish	500-700 words per minute	80%

 

Testimonials

 

Ken Potter, IT Manager. Local Government

 

Karen Smart, Solicitor

 

Leslie Mann, HR Manager, NHS

 

 

  

 

Course Outline

  

Improving the mechanics of reading; better use of your eyes    

 

Course Objectives and Initial Tests

 

• Course and individual objectives
• Tests to measure delegates' current reading performance

 

Current Reading Problems and How to Overcome Them

 

• Current reading habits; how and why they cause problems
• Controlling regressions (re-reading words, sentences and paragraphs)
• "Chunking" - reading in groups of words
• Controlling sub-vocalisation - the internal voice

 

Improving concentration, comprehension, retention; better use of your brain

How to Improve Concentration

• Causes of poor concentration - why we often react with "just what was all that about?" 
• Five practical ways to concentrate better for longer
• Reading on-screen/off-screen - how concentration can be affected
• Reading e-books effectively   

 

How to Improve Comprehension

 

• Effective previewing and skimming techniques; using PASS©
• Peripheral Reading©  - the 'zig-zag', 'diagonal reading', 'ski-reading'
• Key purposes for reading, and how they should affect the pace of reading
• Varying the pace to get the comprehension you require

 

How to Improve Retention; Noting

 

• Memory improvement exercises; using READ© to remember more
• When and when not to make notes; principles of noting

 

Final Assessments

• Final assessments, comprehension tests and eye control tests
• Practice required for long-term reinforcement - optional access via username/password to the Reading Transformations' website for follow-up exercises.
• Reading performance is constantly measure to ensure maximum comprehension at most efficient reading speeds. 

 

Online follow-up. Unique, unlimited online follow-up to reinforce the skills learnt.

 

Duration

  

• One whole day or
• Two half-days

 

Numbers

Maximum 12 per group