Speed Reading
'Advanced Speed Reading Course Teaches You How to Slice Through Your Reading Pile Without Loss of Comprehension'
'Double your reading speed, guaranteed'
Do you ever find yourself struggling to keep up with your reading load? 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' - even reading at double or triple the rate of the average person - is a skill that can be easily mastered by anyone.
'Introducing Brainpower Speed Reading'
Brainpower Speed Reading is an award-winning training program for individuals and teams who want to capture information faster and easier.
You'll learn practical strategies you can use immediately in your daily life to slice through your reading pile. Click here to enquire now.
'Maximise your productivity and
boost your knowledge by
mastering the skills of speed reading'
If you want to get up to speed . . . this is what you'll learn in the Brainpower Speed Reading 1-day 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
- Macroreading, 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. Click here to enquire about Speed Reading training.
How we present
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.
'Does the training include
any additional materials?'
Yes. All workshop participants receive 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.
Who can benefit from this training?
- Anyone with mountains of reading to get through - managers, executives, students etc.
- Anyone studying
- Anyone pressured to keep up with the rate of change in their industry
'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.
Brainpower 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.
Speed Reading Outcomes
On completion of the program participants will be able to:
- Read 2-10 times faster than beginning speed with improved comprehension and memory
- Calculate reading rate in any book and self-evaluate comprehension and memory
- Use strategies to overcome poor reading habits
- Apply the visual pacer technique to eliminate regression and boost reading rate
- Expand focus to eliminate fixating on one word at a time.
- Use a range of sightlines - horizontal, diagonal and vertical - similar to those used by natural speed readers
- Feel comfortable varying reading rates depending on purpose and degree of difficulty of reading material
- Use Macro-reading ® method to read for overview to gain working knowledge of a document or to search read for target information
- Swiftly read material formatted into columns – newspapers, magazines – using a vertical sightline
- Apply rapid reading strategies to onscreen computer reading
- Improve readability of documents by using best fonts for faster onscreen reading
- Become familiar with occupational health and safety issues around preserving good vision and preventing eye-strain when computer reading
- Create the best Control Panel setup for vision preservation
- Perform fast input eye exercises any time they want to boost reading rate yet again
- Apply the 80/20 rule or Pareto Principle to reading and time management
- Perform a Comparison Read to compare their original rate of reading with their new reading rate, for an ‘Ah-ha!’ experience
Hear what participants are saying:
'Superb! Brilliant to know a course such as this exists - quick wins with speed reading.'
Kelly Humphreys, Consultant, PriceWaterhouseCoopers
'This is the best course I have ever attended. I will recommend it to staff and students.'
Dennis Foletta, Secondary School Teacher and Sports Coach
'But is it really worth it? How do I know this is a wise investment?'
Using the techniques you learn in the Brainpower 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.
Wouldn't you agree this a good return on investment?
‘Compare how long it takes to read a 6,000 word report'
| Reader | Words per minute | Minutes |
|---|---|---|
| Slow | 150 | 43 |
| Average | 250 | 24 |
| Skilled | 500 + | 12 |
| Speed | 1,000 + | 6 |
Think of all the time you and your team will save once you complete this course!
No Risk Guarantee
You have peace of mind knowing you are not only getting great value for money, but also results that positively impact performance.
Our guarantee is simply this:
If you are not 100% happy and delighted with your workshop, we will either refund the difference between what you paid to what you think it was worth or we'll continue to work with you for free until you achieve the outcomes you reasonably expected.
Questions? Enquiries?
You'll find the answers to most of your questions on the Frequently Asked Questions page.
If you can't find what you're looking for, please contact us and our Support Team will respond to your enquiry with priority.