Speed Reading training

'Mastering information overload
by reading faster without loss of comprehension,
so you can slice through your reading pile'

'Double your reading speed, guaranteed'

How many of your people are under pressure to get through tons of reading that just keeps pouring in?

Speed Reading is a proven tactic for mastering information overload and can be learned in one day.  We guarantee we'll double everyone's reading rate.  A significant majority increase 3 times or more without loss of comprehension, (measured).

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Award-winning

The Brainpower one-day workshop 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 to slice through your reading pile. Click here for more info.

'Maximise your productivity, master information overload and boost your knowledge'

If you want to get up to speed . . . this is what you'll learn in the Brainpower  one-day workshop:

Program content

• 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 skills to reading on computer
• Macroreading ® 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 contact us.

 Find out more about our training approach

For a pdf of our company brochure, click here

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'Does the training include
any additional materials?'

Yes. All workshop participants receive a reader-friendly, illustrated, colour-printed Workbook to refer to during and after the course.

They'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

'How much can reading speed improve?'

The average person reads between 200 - 300 words per minute. After attending our workshop, everyone at least doubles their reading rate without loss of comprehension or accuracy.Many people increase by 300 to 400 percent with at least the same, and often better, understanding and memory.  Around 9% of participants increase by 6 to 10 times.

Our stats

Refer to the table and corresponding pie chart below for improvement statistics of 100% of all participants attending Brainpower Training speed reading workshops during a five year period, 2006-2010.

National Average

2 times increase	35%
3 times increase	33%
4-5 times increase	23%
6-10 times increase	9%

The majority with the same or improved
comprehension and memory, as measured. 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 poor 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 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.

Program 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 Macroreading ® 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.'

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 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 their reading rate, the improvement in personal productivity is 15%, equivalent to a saving of $9,000 per year.

Would you agree this is a good ROI (return on investment)?

‘Compare how long it takes to read a 6,000 word report'

Think of all the time you and your team will save once you complete this course!

What do people say about our Speed Reading workshop?

 

Cath Watson, Project Manager, Griffith University

 

 

‘Very helpful.  I was most surprised at the outcomes.   Can read a great deal faster.  Now have ability to read technical papers quickly without losing concentration.’

 

Ben Misan, Graduate Engineer, SA Water