Workshop on Information Skills Development - 06 July 2019

Good information skills are essential for successful professionals. Early in your career you must successfully study and digest a huge volume of information, simply to become effective. As you become increasingly successful, you will need to digest huge numbers of documents, data and reports just to do your job, as well as assimilating all the information you need to keep up-to-date in your field.

Scope & Objectives: This workshop of training gives you a range of skills to help you digest huge numbers of documents, data and reports just to do your job, as well as assimilating all the information you need to keep up-to-date in your field. The topic on reading helps you to increase your reading speed and become highly selective in what you read. The topic on review techniques helps you to keep information fresh in your mind. The topic on note-taking gives you a powerful tool for recording useful information. Over all the contents of the module covers the following topic areas.

1. Mind Maps - Taking notes effectively
2. SQ3R - Fully absorbing written information
3. Speed Reading
4. Reading Strategies - Reading quickly by reading intelligently
5. Review Techniques - Keeping information fresh in your mind
6. Learning Styles - Learn in a way that suits you
7. The Conscious Competence Ladder - Making learning a happier experience Memory Improvement Techniques