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Managing Information Overload Training: Techniques for Working Smarter
Course 246
- Duration: 3 days
- Language: English
- 11 PMI PDUs
- Level: Foundation
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In this Managing Information Overload course you will learn techniques to work smarter and be more productive. ,You gain the skills to exploit your intellectual capacity and take advantage of mind mapping and speed reading tools. You also learn how to set effective goals, prioritise tasks and manage expectations. With advanced power-browsing techniques, you learn how to rapidly acquire and retain new data, quickly recall important details, and accurately digest documents and Web pages. You also learn how to probe difficult informational problems with lateral thinking methods and how to rapidly assimilate new names and faces with simple but effective memory skills.
All of the techniques taught on this course are then integrated into a complete methodology for dealing with e-mail that can be tailored into a unique and personally customised solution for managing all of the information sources coming into your life.
All of the techniques taught on this course are then integrated into a complete methodology for dealing with e-mail that can be tailored into a unique and personally customised solution for managing all of the information sources coming into your life.
Managing Information Overload Training: Techniques for Working Smarter Delivery Methods
- After-course instructor coaching benefit
- Learning Tree end-of-course exam included
Managing Information Overload Training: Techniques for Working Smarter Course Benefits
- 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
- Effectively manage actions, tasks and appointments using a comprehensive methodology
- Develop advanced memory skills to retain important information
Managing Information Overload Course Outline
- Eliminating unnecessary work
- Exploiting your natural energy periods
- Tailoring technology to reach your goals
- Creating an efficient approach to e-mail and other electronic communications
Identifying your thinking styles
- Assessing your visual, kinesthetic and auditory thinking styles
- Adapting methods best suited for your style
Engaging aspects of your memory
- Realising the effectiveness of memory chunking
- Maximising the advantages of long-term memory
- Retrieving partially remembered facts and figures
Harnessing memory patterns
- Embedding new information through familiar associations
- Improving the effectiveness of study and research periods
- Stimulating new ideas and solving problems through lateral thinking
Recording the creative process
- Crafting time-efficient mind maps
- Creating flexible strategies for effective learning
Accelerating your reading speed
- 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
Interpreting documents
- Constructing strategic information overviews
- Consolidating your current knowledge base
- Generating goal-seeking questions
- Knowing when you have learned enough
Managing electronic-based information, actions, tasks, and appointments
- Leveraging technology to process information inputs
- Identifying actions and tasks embedded within electronic communications
- Organising tasks into active, foreground, and background activities
- Categorising information for later reference
Improving your information processing pace
- Focusing your information needs
- Creating documents and e-mails with efficient information-transfer structures
- Triaging priorities rapidly with an efficient choice matrix
The principles of mnemonics
- Why mnemonics work
- Visual, auditory, and combined mnemonics
Remembering names and faces
- 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
Chaining information with links and cues
- Retaining unstructured information with the Roman Room technique
- Building cohesive information networks
Creating memory scratch pads
- Adapting your thinking style to the peg system
- Scrutinizing the visual and auditory peg systems
Maintaining mental preparedness
- Preparing for meetings, presentations, and speeches
- Refining goals and values to encourage motivation
- Keeping your brain healthy, focused, and energized
Distilling information with bit literacy
- Determining what not to know
- Recognising when to extend your knowledge base
Acquiring effective information transfer
- Pyramiding data into a unified whole
- Building a knowledge survival toolkit
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