Course Details
Course Outline
5 days course
Brain Skills, Fast Reading, and Mind Mapping:
- Thinking about reading - and challenging your existing assumptions.
- Check current reading speed and understanding of the reading process.
- How the brain works and its relevance for reading more effectively and remembering more.
- The mechanics of how the eye works in tandem with the brain.
- Breaking delusions: challenging beliefs and assumptions about reading.
- Reading environment.
- How to be a 'successful' reader.
- Different approaches to note-making.
- How to mind map.
Reading Strategies and Memory Systems:
- Reading strategies: the theory.
- Successful reading: increasing reading speed and effectiveness.
- Reading practice.
- Thinking about remembering.
- Memory systems introduced (Memory magic?)
- Remembering numbers.
- Using mind mapping to help you remember what you have read.
Reading at Work, Memory Rhythms, and Thinking in Groups:
- More memory magic.
- Different approaches for reading documents, textbooks, emails, and the web.
- Getting control (how to read a book in a hurry).
- How we remember - and how we forget (and what to do about it!).
- Using mind mapping and reading strategies together.
- Thinking and working in groups.
- Project: mind mapping in teams.
Time Management and Outcome Planning For Better Results:
- Team mind mapping presentations.
- Outcome planning for better results.
- Better time management as a tool for handling information overload.
- Reading: understanding an article and extracting key points.
- Mind mapping software (e.g. Mind Manager, iMindMap, NovaMind).
- Mind mapping: when to use the software, when to use paper.
- Developing listening skills as part of the note-making process.
- Revision in context.
Problem Solving, Meetings, and Planning for Success:
- Putting it All Together: Your Toolkit for Handling Information Overload.
- Reading, remembering.
- Communicating in working life.
- Preparing for and participating in meetings.
- Reflective review (what have you learned and how can you apply it in the real world?)
- Planning for success and planning to practice.
