Rapid Reading™ workshop brochure

Rapid Reading™

▪ Read faster, improve focus and enhance concentration.

▪ Easily identify, evaluate, absorb and memorise key content.

▪ Confidently recall the information you need.

Face-to-face and online delivery:

▪ 1 day workshop – in-house

▪ Optional 1-2-1 coaching available.

“Really useful. Was very surprised about speed progress made just during the workshop. Feel empowered to 'skim and scan' and not feel like I'm cheating if not reading every word.”

Education

Rapid Reading™

The Problem:

We all face the challenge of business reports that remain unread, emails that don’t get dealt with, time-sensitive documents that don’t get the attention they deserve and books on the shelf, filled with useful information, left in place for years, pristine and untouched.

The Solution:

Becoming a ‘rapid’ reader will ensure you avoid information overload and are able to:

▪ Read quickly and save time.

▪ Absorb key messages.

▪ Remember and confidently recall key information.

Workshop Benefits:

You will learn a variety of tools and techniques that will help you deal with the overwhelming amount of information you receive today

Using your own work-based documents or books, you will learn the difference between passive reading and active reading, exploring how active reading can improve speed, focus and concentration. Within a day, you should double your words per minute but with similar levels of comprehension – with further practice you can treble your reading speed, with:

Practical ways to –

Read faster, improve focus and enhance concentration.

Sort the good from the bad.

Increased understanding – Deeper comprehension –

Quickly evaluate content that is critical.

Easily find, absorb and memorise key content.

Workshop Objectives:

Confidently manage and recall the information you need.

The average document contains approximately 20% of content that is relevant to your objectives. There are some very simple tools to rapidly draw out that content. These tools teach you to:

◼ Summarise a book or document in 20 minutes.

◼ Use skimming and scanning techniques to evaluate and identify the content that is critical to you.

◼ Read text faster, in detail and with better comprehension (within a day you will be doubling and potentially trebling your reading speeds).

◼ Understand the nature of memory and help you memorise the information you want and need to retain.

Rapid Reading™

Who Should Attend:

Anyone, no matter what level, with large quantities of business information to read and understand – who, as a direct result, are experiencing information overload

You will learn tools to read a huge range of materials much faster:

▪ Essential company documentation (Managers/Administrators/Compliance/Legal).

▪ Reading proposals (Sales/Marketing/PR/Advertising).

▪ Reading articles (Managers/Students).

▪ Reading books (Business/Studying/Pleasure).

▪ Reading policy documents (Managers/HR/Legal).

▪ Screen reading (all company employees).

“One of the best workshops I've been on. Incredibly informative, definitely works in practice – you can see it working, taking effect and getting better. The best part to this workshop is the explanation of why the techniques works –this really helped learning.” UK Financial Services

Training Options:

Public workshops are the best method for training individuals and small groups. Delivered online and across the UK, they provide a great opportunity for different companies and individuals to come together and learn the tools.

Book online: www.indigobusiness.co.uk/read Train

In-house workshops are the ideal opportunity to train teams and whole departments within your organisation. Providing clarity of training focus and excellent team building opportunities. It reduces delegate travel, workshop cost and environmental impact as we train online or at your premises, worldwide Call us to book: +44 (0)20 3836 8640 or email info@indigobusiness.co.uk

“Really engaging and interactive course. I learnt a lot of good skills that are invaluable to everyday working and studying life. I really enjoy workshops where engagement is very high and we practice the skills we have learnt.” Central Government