Rapid Reading™ - Speed through business documents

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.

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.

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What's it all about?

You will learn a variety of tools and techniques that will help you deal with the overwhelming amount of information you receive today – potentially trebling your reading speed.

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.

The average document contains approximately 20% of content that is relevant to your objectives. There are some very simple tools to draw out that content rapidly. 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 in detail, faster 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.

What will you get out of it?

This highly practical workshop teaches you the fundamental skills to read faster and more effectively:

• Saving time and reducing wasted effort.
• Enhancing confidence – which comes from being as well-informed as you can be.
• Reducing stress – information overload is a cause of this.
• Free up more time for thinking, planning and doing.

What will your organisation get out of it?

• Employees with more time.
• Increased productivity.
• Increased staff effectiveness (enhanced knowledge and skills).

Typical workshop content

• Introductions and objective setting.
• Benchmarking and mindset for fast reading.
• The ‘Speedy Preview’ - how to summarise a book or document in 20 minutes.
• Speed reading the detail.
• The principles and rhythms of memory.
• Memorable notes and additional reading strategies.
• Debrief and action planning.

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).

What delegates need to bring to the workshop

To practice the techniques and get the most out of the workshop, delegates will need to bring a business book or work-related document with them.

Business/personal development book:

• Not a novel.

Work-related document:

• A business report or a proposal document, ideally 200-300 pages long.
• It is important that the material is divided clearly and contains chapters or sections, headings and sub headings.

Continuous Professional Development (CPD)

Rapid Reading™ can count towards your CPD recognition with leading professional associations and trade organisations. You can normally record your attendance in the 'organised learning' or 'self-learning' sections. Please check with your membership organisation for more information.

Certificate of completion

Digital certificate - Included