Introduction
Why You Should Attend This Course:
Forgot where you put your keys, name of the person you just met or your mother-in-law’s mobile number? Memory techniques are an additional core skill to acquire. Many mistakenly believe memory decline with age. People with excellent memories are perceived to be smart, trustworthy and high in EQ. Yes, your brain can be trained to remember more efficiently. Store the facts in your mental filing cabinets and retrieve them as and when you need them.
Do you wish you can read major newspapers within an allocated timeslot daily? And the bestselling books? Reading comprises an essential part of your daily life. Speed reading is one of the 21st-century core skills you must acquire. Speed reading is the art of recognizing and absorbing phrases rapidly without much reduction of comprehension.
Presently, you probably read between 200 to 270 words per minute. You will take 90 to 120 seconds to read an A4 page. The good news is you can lift your foot off your brakes, step on the accelerator and double or even triple your reading speed by just adopting five good habits of wholebrain speed reading.
Benefits/ Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the two-day interactive workshop, participants will
- Eliminate poor reading habits
- Install efficient reading habits and double your reading speed
Use differentiated memory techniques to remember and recall more efficiently
Suitable for:
This program is designed for executives who increase their daily productivity through memory techniques and speed reading.
Course Content
Memory Skills
- Exploring Memory
- Concerns about memory
- Why people forget
How Memory works
- Types of Memory – episodic, semantic, procedural and prospective
- Organizing information
- Repetition and role-learning
Traditional Memory Techniques
- Mnemonics
- Chunking
- Association
- The Roman Room
- Link and Story
- Alphabet
- Number-Rhymes
Speed Reading
- History of speed reading
- Your reading speed
- Types of reading
Speed Reading Logistics
- Reading environment and lighting
- Reading aids
- Reading postures
Speed Reading Techniques
- How to break a book and turn its pages
- Retrospective vs Prospective Reading
- Five causes of slow reading
- Five methods to double your reading speed
Trainer's Profile
Michael Lum holds a Bachelor of Accountancy from National University of Singapore and a Master of Commerce from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. To hone in his skills, he pursued a Graduate Diploma (Training and Development) from Civil Service College and a Master in Professional Education (Training and Development) in Nanyang Technological University. He is a candidate for his DBA.
For the last 20 years Michael has been training in various management topics both in Singapore and in the region. Michael is also an associate faculty with Singapore University of Social Sciences and UPH Indonesia where he teaches Strategic Management and Negotiation Strategies.
He is an associate trainer with Nanyang Technological University, Institute of Chartered Accountants, Marketing Institute of Singapore and Singapore Association for Continuing Education. He was also an associate trainer with National University of Singapore Extension for 17 years.
Michael is a certified trainer with American Board of NLP (Neuro-linguistics Programming), American Management Association International trainer, Louis Allen Leadership Program, Body Language Micro-Expressions and HRDF Malaysia. An Associate Certified Coach with International Coaching Federation, he is also an IACT stress management consultant, NGH hypnotherapist and Laughter Yoga instructor.
