Who is it for?

Anyone, no matter what level, with large quantities of business information to read and understand, who, as a direct result, is experiencing information overload.

You will learn tools to read a vast 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).

"One of the best workshops I've been on. Incredibly informative, definitely works in practice – you can see it working, taking effect and getting better. The best part to this workshop is the explanation of why the techniques works – this really helped learning." - Financial Services

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, maintaining similar levels of comprehension.

The average document contains approximately 20% content relevant to your objectives. There are some straightforward 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 efficient 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).

What delegates need to bring to the workshop

To maximise the benefits of the workshop and effectively practice the techniques, delegates are encouraged to bring a business book or a 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.
• The material must be divided into chapters or sections, with headings and subheadings that are clearly defined.

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 details.
• The principles and rhythms of memory.
• Memorable notes and additional reading strategies.
• Debrief and action planning.

Duration, delivery methods and languages available

1-day workshop:

• Online (through Zoom, MS Teams, Webex or your own platform) in-house for groups or teams.
• Face-to-face for groups or teams.
• One-to-one coaching.

Delivery can be split into multiple days/sessions.

Rapid Reading™ can also be combined with your existing programmes.