Duration: 2 Days
Course Overview
In modern workplace environments the amount of information that workers have to deal with on a daily basis is increasing exponentially. Information overload – simply having too much information to deal with effectively – leads to reduced productivity, added stress, a shortened attention span and poorer retention. This 2-day course will help you to deal with information overload by developing strategies that dovetail with how your brain processes information.
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Course Content
Identifying Your Preferred Thinking and Communication Styles
• Identifying your visual, kinaesthetic, and auditory thinking styles
• Recognizing your personal communication style
How Memory Works
• How the brain works
• Enhancing the way you think & learn
• Working memory versus long-term memory
• Maximising information transfer to long-term memory
• Using memory chunking as a tool
• Avoiding interference and distortion
Improving your reading speed
• Dramatically improve reading speed and mental flexibility
• Maintaining high comprehension levels
• Baselining your current reading speed
• Employing speed reading tools
Managing Email Actions, Tasks, and Appointments
• Selecting your preferred technology for processing information
• Capturing and categorising tasks, actions, and information
• Classifying tasks to focus on what’s most important, not what’s most urgent
• Structuring information for easy future retrieval
Filtering Information for Efficiency ad Effectiveness
• Concentrating on your information needs
• Enhancing learning, thinking, planning, creativity and problem-solving with mind mapping
• Creating documents and e-mails with efficient information-transfer structures
• Becoming proactive not reactive, and managing urgency
Filtering Knowledge for Value
• What knowledge do you need?
• What not to know
• Structuring knowledge for easy retention
• Creating a personal “knowledge essentials” toolbox”
Organising Your Approach
Tailoring technology to reach your goals
Creating an efficient approach to e-mail
Exploiting Memory Patterns
• Enhancing effective research & study
• Using familiar associations to embed information
• Solving problems with lateral thinking
• Leveraging divergent and convergent thinking
Recording the Creative Process
• Structuring information using mind maps
• Brainstorming and brain writing
• Exploiting your strategic thinking toolbox
Memory Enhancement:
Principles and Strategies
Principles of mnemonics
• How mnemonics work
• Combining your thinking and communication styles with mnemonics
• Creating memory scratch pads
• Linking your thinking style to the peg system
• Choosing between visual and auditory peg systems
Leveraging Visual and Spatial Memory
• Using the Roman Room technique
• Recalling structured information
• Memorizing unstructured information
• Building a Memory Palace
Linking Names and Faces
• Creating a whole-brained memory
• Linking visuals to a name to aid memorisation
• Using rehearsal and review to lock a face to a name
• Applying mnemonics at group events Creating a Toolbox of Techniques
Mental Preparation – Preparing for:
• Meetings
• Presentations
• Facilitation
• Motivate yourself by identifying clear goals and values
Recognising the embodied mind:
• Looking after yourself to ensure effective brain function
• Eliminating low-value work
• Identifying your natural energy periods