BrainSailing's Handling Information Overload seminar offers suggestions for developing flexible approaches to time management, reading, note making and memory skills. It focuses on developing a skill-set that can be used as a foundation for handling information and for studying. Another objective is to give you a better understand of the difficulties (and possible solutions) in managing your time and achieving key results.
Topics
Learning Outcomes
Feedback from courses between 2008 - 2017
Topics
- Improve the effectiveness of your reading
- Memory systems and how to use them
- Ways to simplify note-taking and recall
- Creative tools for structured thinking, decision-making and study
- Benefits for communications (presentations, team-work, meetings)
- Common-sense time management tips
Learning Outcomes
- Tackle reading tasks with more confidence
- Learn the secrets of memory systems and how to use them to remember facts, procedures, names and other information
- Learn to use mind mapping
- Develop note-making skills and learn to read and use mind maps for planning, note-making, clearer thinking and better communications
- Combine fast reading, memory, and mind mapping skills to help handle information overload
Feedback from courses between 2008 - 2017
- "Lots of different skills and techniques were taught very well."
- "Excellent amount of tuition and practise. Very engaging. Well structured."
- "Excellent tutor: very good, funny, informative, very patient and explained everything well."
- "Some techniques came easily, others less so - most were helpful and made sense to me."
- "Using what I've learned today will save me time and improve my efficiency in working practices."