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Managing Information Overload: Techniques for Working Smarter
Course: 246
Type: Course Workshop
Duration: 2 Days
You Will Learn How To
- Increase your productivity with effective information management techniques
- Adapt your learning and thinking styles to rapidly acquire business-critical skills
- Apply creative strategies, including mind maps, for processing information
- Adopt speed-reading techniques to quickly digest reports and other information
- Manage actions, tasks, and appointments within a comprehensive e-mail processing methodology
- Develop advanced memory skills to retain important information
Course Benefits Information overload is a daily occurrence and can lead to reduced productivity, added stress, and decreased attention span and memory. This course provides the skills needed to process fast-paced information to develop a competitive edge. You learn to sharpen your comprehension, memory and speed-reading skills. You learn how to improve your focus, respond quickly to change, manage e-mail, and rapidly comprehend and retain information.Who Should Attend This course is valuable for those who want to improve their productivity and work successfully in fast-paced environments.Course Workshop Throughout the course, you gain practical skills in managing information effectively. Workshops include:
- Analyzing left- and right-brain characteristics
- Profiling your personal thinking style and the styles of others
- Implementing speed-reading techniques
- Identifying actions, tasks, and appointments within e-mails
- Applying a step-by-step process to remember names and faces
- Triggering lateral thinking with mind maps
Course 246 Content
- Eliminating unnecessary work
- Exploiting your natural energy periods
- Tailoring technology to reach your goals
- Creating an efficient approach to e-mail
- Assessing your visual, kinesthetic and auditory thinking styles
- Adapting methods best suited for your style
- Realizing the effectiveness of memory chunking
- Maximizing the advantages of long-term memory
- Retrieving partially remembered facts and figures
- Embedding new information through familiar associations
- Improving the effectiveness of study and research periods
- Stimulating new ideas and solving problems through lateral thinking
- Crafting time-efficient mind maps
- Creating flexible strategies for effective learning
- Benchmarking your current reading speed
- Tuning your eyes to enable speed reading
- Skimming and scanning the right information at the right level
- Employing the tools of speed reading
- Constructing strategic information overviews
- Consolidating your current knowledge base
- Generating goal-seeking questions
- Knowing when you have learned enough
- Leveraging technology to process information inputs
- Identifying actions and tasks embedded within e-mails
- Organizing tasks into active, foreground and background activities
- Categorizing information for later reference
- Focusing your information needs
- Creating documents and e-mails with efficient information-transfer structures
- Triaging priorities rapidly with an efficient choice matrix
- Why mnemonics work
- Visual, auditory and combined mnemonics
- Applying meaning to a name to make it memorable
- Integrating names and appearances with whole-brain thinking
- Cementing names with applied mnemonics
- Rehearsing and reviewing to lock a face to a name
- Retaining unstructured information with the Roman Room technique
- Building cohesive information networks
- Adapting your thinking style to the peg system
- Scrutinizing the visual and auditory peg systems
- Preparing for meetings, presentations and speeches
- Refining goals and values to encourage motivation
- Keeping your brain healthy, focused and energized
- Determining what not to know
- Recognizing when to extend your knowledge base
- Pyramiding data into a unified whole
- Building a knowledge survival toolkit
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