Important Managing Information Overload Course Information
Managing Information Overload Course Outline
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Organising Your Approach
- 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
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Maximising 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
- Realising the effectiveness of memory chunking
- Maximising the advantages of long-term memory
- Retrieving partially remembered facts and figures
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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
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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 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
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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
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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
- Recognising when to extend your knowledge base
Acquiring effective information transfer
- Pyramiding data into a unified whole
- Building a knowledge survival toolkit