Speed Reading Workshop

Do you ever find yourself with too much to read but with very little time? Do you have a pile of reading material that you need to go through? Do you want to learn how to absorb information like a sponge in less time and with less effort?

If so, this workshop is for you because 'Speed Reading' is a skill that can be easily mastered by anyone. Imagine if your reading speed increases by double or triple or even by 300 to 400 percent, the amount of time it takes you to ready any material will be reduced significantly.

We all know that time is precious and the ability to absorb information fast is an asset in every competitive industry.

This is an award-winning training program for individuals and teams who want to capture information faster and easier.

The strategies you will learn will enable you to double your reading speed at the minimum.

• Anyone with mountains of reading to get through - managers, executives, students etc.
• Anyone who is studying and needs to absorb information from study literature quickly and effectively.
• Anyone pressured to keep up with the rate of change in their industry.

'You'll learn practical strategies you can use immediately in your daily life to slice through your reading pile without loss of comprehension.

'Maximise your productivity and boost your knowledge by mastering the skills of speed reading'

If you want to increase your reading speed, this is what you'll learn in this 1-day speed reading workshop:

• How to measure your current reading rate and comprehension
• Simple techniques to instantly double your reading rate without loss of comprehension and accuracy
• Four poor reading habits that hold back your reading rate and how to overcome them
• Fast input eye-brain exercises that boost your reading speed on the spot
• E-reading, or how to adapt your new-found speed reading skills to reading on computer
• Macro reading, a reading technique to filter out the non-essential and zoom in on the essential
• 6 ways to read vertically (for newspapers, magazines)
• How to model the sightlines and eye paths of natural speed readers
• How to remain a faster reader for life
• How to read more in the next 90 days than in the last 9 years!

By understanding and mastering these skills, you can easily double your reading rate.

How it is presented
All participants are invited to bring along a selection of their own books, either fiction or non-fiction, to use in workshop exercises.

This ensures that reading material is relevant and automatically tailors the course to your individual needs.

OK, but how much can I really expect my reading speed to improve?

The average person reads between 200 - 300 words per minute. After attending our Speed Reading workshop, everyone at least doubles their reading rate without loss of comprehension or accuracy.

Many people increase by 300 to 400 percent with better understanding and memory, and around 10% of participants increase by 6 to 10 times.

These results may seem amazing (and they are) but using the techniques covered in the course you'll be surprised how easy it is to become a 'speed reader' yourself.

But how is it possible to read so much faster and still understand what I'm reading?

Most readers are handicapped by poor reading habits that force them to read at 'speaking speed' rather than 'thinking speed'. These bad habits include:

• 'Sub-vocalisation' - the habit of 'speaking' words in your mind as you read
• 'Fixation' - reading just one word at a time with a narrow focus
• 'Regression' - when your eye unconsciously flits back to reread part of a word. Eye movement research reveals the average person regresses as many as 50 - 60 times per page.

The combined effect of these habits compels you to read so slowly that your mind wanders and loses concentration.

This Speed Reading training teaches you techniques to overcome these poor reading habits. This allows your reading rate to automatically increase by 3 or 4 times with better comprehension, concentration and memory.

Using the techniques you learn in this Speed Reading course, everyone at least doubles their reading rate easily and immediately, guaranteed.

A manager earning $60K per year might spend 30% of their work time reading. When they double reading their rate, the improvement in personal productivity is 15%, equivalent to a saving of $9,000 per year.

Everyone receives a reader-friendly, illustrated workbook to refer to during and after the course. You'll also be presented with a Certificate of Achievement for successfully completing the course.

*Full-time students: Please fax or mail a copy of their Student ID or equivalent.