What would
you do with 17 extra days a year?
If you only read for 5 hours a week this is the time you could save
by learning to speed read.
When did you last learn a new technique to improve your reading?
What could you do with the extra time if you doubled or tripled
your reading speed?
Take some time to learn new techniques and improve your efficiency.
This session introduces
some easy techniques for quickly increasing your reading speed.
Most people double or triple their reading speed in the workshop,
some have even quadrupled their reading speed.
Follow up exercises to help improve further after the session are
included in the handout.
To be most effective
it is important that participants all bring along some of their
normal work related reading material, such as papers, minutes, reports
etc totalling about 10 pages. It is also helpful if participants
bring a fiction book they’ve read and a non-fiction book that
they would love to read but haven’t had time.
Aim:
To increase your
reading speed and improve your decisions on which reading material
is important.
Objectives: This
session will help participants to:
- Measure
your initial reading speed;
- Consider
how you read and what limits your current reading speed;
- Consider
how to approach paper based and electronic reading material;
- Learn
and practise a range of techniques for speed reading;
- Learn how to set objectives
and preview a document that will help you to decide which parts
are most important.
“Excellent
and would recommend to colleagues”
“Unbelievable - but it really works”
Graphs from
Inspirachange training courses over the past few months.
The average increase was 272%.
(There were also 3 exceptional
speeds of 1650, 2233 and 2690
words per minute!)
Recommended
resources:
Speed
Reading, Tony Buzan, BBc Consumer Publishing
This book is an excellently laid out workbook with comprehension
exercises |
Breakthrough
Rapid reading, Peter Kump, Prentice Hall
This is a great book of exercises and techniques |
english.glendale.cc.ca.us/methods.html
A few easy methods. |
www.speedreadingworld.com
Instructions on how to read faster |
www.selfgrowth.com/reading.html
Links to other speed reading sites |
| Super
Reading Secrets, Howard Berg, Little Brown and company |
Photoreading
Whole Mind System, Howard Berg, Learning Strategies Corporation
A different approach to most of the books and may not suit everyone |
| Power
Reading, Rick Ostrov, The Education Press |
(Please note these are
provided in good faith, we have no control over the content of external
web sites.) |
