Fast Effective Reading: The Full Course

Special guest trainer, David Aylwin runs this intensive one-day training course in Speed reading, which covers:

Improving the mechanics of reading

Course objectives and initial tests:

• course and individual objectives
• tests to measure delegates’ current reading performance

Current reading problems and how to overcome them:

• current reading habits; how and why they cause problems
• controlling regressions (re-reading words, sentences and paragraphs)
• ‘chunking’ – reading in groups of words
• controlling sub-vocalisation – the internal voice

Improving concentration, comprehension, retention

How to improve concentration:

• causes of poor concentration – ‘just what was all that about?’
• 5 practical ways to concentrate better for longer
• reading on-screen/off-screen – how concentration can be affected

How to improve comprehension:

• effective previewing and skimming techniques; using PASS©
• peripheral Reading© – the ‘zig-zag’, ‘diagonal reading’, ‘ski-reading’
• key purposes for reading, and how they should affect the pace of reading
• varying the pace to get the comprehension you require

How to improve retention; noting:

• memory improvement exercises; using READ© to remember more
• when and when not to make notes; principles of noting

Final assessments:

• final assessments, comprehension tests and eye control tests
• practice required for long-term reinforcement – optional access via username/password to the Reading Transformations’ website for follow-up exercises.

Reading performance is measured throughout so as to ensure maximum comprehension at most efficient reading speeds.

The course is for anybody who has a lot of reading to do, in any profession or type of job, or whose leisure reading often takes them too long. If you are student with a huge work-load, if you do research and have to read densely written documents, if you have to keep yourself up-to-date in a fast moving industry, this course is for you.

If you have to read tedious minutes of meetings, if you are in local government, the civil service, the NHS, this course will help you. If you need to influence others, the more briefed and knowledgeable you are, the more likely you are to achieve that influence.

Itec Skills and Employment works with people from all sectors including the public sector, voluntary sector, corporate sector and private sector.

This course in Speed reading would permanently double, perhaps even treble your reading speed and improve your retention. It is likely to save you two or more hours per day, and allow you to be better briefed and more informed. You retain more, as our brains work better at higher reading speeds. However, the course teaches how to read at the correct speed for what you are reading and why.

• £589 plus VAT not-for-profit price (applies to charities and all other not-for-profit organisations, including public sector and housing)
• £654 plus VAT standard price (applies to all other organisations)