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Managing Information Overload: Techniques for Working Smarter

 
Course: 246     Type: Course Workshop     Duration: 2 Days

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You Will Learn How To
  • 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
  • Manage actions, tasks, and appointments within a comprehensive e-mail processing methodology
  • Develop advanced memory skills to retain important information

Course Benefits
Information overload is a daily occurrence and can lead to reduced productivity, added stress, and decreased attention span and memory. This course provides the skills needed to process fast-paced information to develop a competitive edge. You learn to sharpen your comprehension, memory and speed-reading skills. You learn how to improve your focus, respond quickly to change, manage e-mail, and rapidly comprehend and retain information.

Who Should Attend
This course is valuable for those who want to improve their productivity and work successfully in fast-paced environments.

Course Workshop
Throughout the course, you gain practical skills in managing information effectively. Workshops include:
  • Analyzing left- and right-brain characteristics
  • Profiling your personal thinking style and the styles of others
  • Implementing speed-reading techniques
  • Identifying actions, tasks, and appointments within e-mails
  • Applying a step-by-step process to remember names and faces
  • Triggering lateral thinking with mind maps

Course 246 Content
Organizing Your Approach
  • Eliminating unnecessary work
  • Exploiting your natural energy periods
  • Tailoring technology to reach your goals
  • Creating an efficient approach to e-mail
Maximizing Your Mind's Abilities
Identifying your thinking styles
  • Assessing your visual, kinesthetic and auditory thinking styles
  • Adapting methods best suited for your style
Engaging aspects of your memory
  • Realizing the effectiveness of memory chunking
  • Maximizing the advantages of long-term memory
  • Retrieving partially remembered facts and figures
Integrating Creative Brain Strategies
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
Increasing Your Ability to Absorb Information
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 e-mail actions, tasks and appointments
  • Leveraging technology to process information inputs
  • Identifying actions and tasks embedded within e-mails
  • Organizing tasks into active, foreground and background activities
  • Categorizing 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
Strengthening Your Memory
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
Launching Your Techniques Toolkit
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
  • Furthering expertise with tenure zones
Acquiring effective information transfer
  • Pyramiding data into a unified whole
  • Building a knowledge survival toolkit

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Managing Information Overload: Techniques for Working Smarter
Upcoming Dates
May 19 - 20, 2008
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
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Sep 22 - 23, 2008
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Sep 29 - 30, 2008
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Nov 10 - 11, 2008
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Nov 17 - 18, 2008
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Feb 23 - 24, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)

Managing Information Overload: Techniques for Working Smarter
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Course Tuition
$ 1,750 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 830 10-Day Pass
$ 1,665 Training Passport
$ 1,830 Flex-Pass
$ 2,095 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 1,575 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 1,375 Government Discount
 

 

Managing Information Overload: Techniques for Working Smarter
Managing Information Overload: Techniques for Working Smarter
Course participants filtering information from the Internet.

CPE 11 Credits PMI 11 PDU 1 Hour(s) College Credit
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