SPEED READING
SPEED READING – Speed Reading For Business Professionals
Speed Reading For Business Professionals
Could your firm benefit from a more productive workforce? American Speed Reading is a Certified Seminar Contractor for the Federal Government, the City of New York, and a 100 Hours Provider with the New Jersey Department of Education.
ASRC is profiled by Dun and Bradstreet (ID#94-111-2377), and of the thousands of corporations rated through D&B’s affiliate Open Ratings, American Speed Reading is ranked in the top five percent.
If Speed Reading is a skill that would benefit your corporation’s executives and personnel, please contact us. Our clients include the Federal Reserve, NASA Space Center, Army Command and General Staff College, and the United States Navy Seals.
Top executives have taken our seminar and told us it exceeded their expectations. Judge for yourself.
Partial List of Companies Taught:
- United States Navy Seals, CA
- Army Command and General Staff College, KS
- Merck Corporation, PA
- Vanguard Mutual Funds, PA
- Alpine Engineering, TX
- Deloitte & Touche, CT
- VPI Mirrex Corporation, DE
- American Herbal Science Corp, AL
- Hartford Life, CT
- Boeing Corporation, MO
- College Club USA, CA
- Holiday Inn, Washington D.C.
- Honda of America, OH
- Nikkan, NY
- Magnetic Health, NJ
- State Street Research, MA
- Ace Financial Services, NY
- Vandenberg AFB Fire Dept, CA
- Merrill Lynch, NY
- Household Int, IL
- HSBC Corp, IL
- Amway Corp, MI
- Florida Atlantic Univ, FL
- New York Medical College, NY
- Professional Indemnity Co, NY
- Allegheny Ludlum Corp, PA
- Affiliated Managers Group, MA
- Case Corporation, WI
- NYC Dept of Transportation, NY
- Texas Dept. of Human Resources, TX
- British Airways, FL
- Robert Wood Johnson FD, NJ
- Kimberly-Clark Corp, GA
- BMW of North America, NJ
- American Home Products, NJ
- PepsiCo, NY
- Amarillo Texas Area Foundation, TX
- NASA (Johnson Space Center), TX
- US Coast Guard, CA
- Transportation Security Administration In Intelligence Services, VA
SPEED READING – Memory Power
Memory Power
Do your employees forget names of important clients or information presented at seminars? Are they afraid to give speeches or lead seminars because they might forget vital information? Do they experience memory meltdown? Without memory all brainwork is wasted because there is no way to recall from past experience. How many times have you heard an executive say about an employee, “He just never learns.” So often the situation could more properly be phrased, “He doesn’t remember.” In contrast, there are some persons whose entire key to success lies in a good memory and little else.
Suppose in just THREE hours, we could turn the minds of your employees into memory machines that retain vital information and not just for minutes but for days, weeks or as long as they needed?
The AMERICAN SPEED READING CORPORATION is proud to announce our newest seminar, “MEMORY POWER.” Right from the start we will introduce your personnel to an innovative way of thinking as we sharpen their minds to store and retrieve information in moments. This means instilling confidence, improving work performance, and increasing productivity.
MEMORY POWER has been highly successful wherever presented. It not only works but learning these memory techniques is fun and will prove to be one of the most interesting and popular seminars your company has ever presented.
If you believe, as we do, that this innovative concept will be a major asset to your corporation please contact us. We will be happy to include your company in our next seminar schedule.
Memory Power Seminar Objectives
The goal of American Speed Reading’s Memory Power Seminar is to have clients think and recall vital information through a new innovative process.
This goal will be accomplished through the following objectives:
Attendees will:
Learn to think and recall using a new innovative method, different from what they currently use.
Practice a relaxation technique that may be used when in a stressful setting.
Learn a four-step process that turns new information into knowledge.
Learn a variety of mental peg systems that associate new information with information already known.
Instantly recall the names of people.
Learn an innovative style of note-taking for meetings and seminars.
Memory Course Outline
INTRODUCTION: Explaining sensory memory, short term, or working memory, and long term memory.
BASIC ASSOCIATION: Using information we know to recall new information.
TURN VIVID PICTURES INTO STORIES: The key to remembering: visualize a picture in your mind and create action.
HOUSE LIST PEGS: Using items in your own home to recall new information.
PEGGING TO YOUR LIST: Adding information to your long term memory. Chaining new information to the pegs you already know.
REMEMBERING PEOPLE: Recalling the names of the people you just met makes a lasting impression.
TAKING NOTES AND RECALLING VITAL INFORMATION: Write less and remembe more at meetings and seminars.
SPEED READING – Professional Writing Skills Seminar
Professional Writing Skills Seminar
*Crisp, Clear and Concise: A Seminar in Advanced Writing Skills and Strategies
- Rhetorical Qualities of Words and Sentences
- Principals of Effective Organization
- Style, Details and Genres
- Description, Narration and Exposition
- Argument: Making the Case with Logic
- Persuasion: Convincing the Reader
- Writing in the World
Dr. Lorraine Cella, a graduate of Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, presents Crisp, Clear and Concise: A Seminar in Advanced Writing Skills and Strategies. Dr. Cella has served as an adjunct professor at Teachers College and most recently at Saint Peters University. She has taught graduate level courses in the Teaching of Reading, Methods in the Teaching of English, Supervision of Reading and other literacy related courses. She has presented at national, state and local conventions and has written a number of publications. In public education, she has served as a Superintendent of Schools, Principal, English Supervisor, Literacy Staff Developer and English teacher in New Jersey.
*This course can be adjusted based on the needs of the participants.
American Speed Reading Corporation
Crisp, Clear and Concise: A Seminar in Advanced Writing Skills and Strategies
The goal of American Speed Reading’s seminar, Crisp, Clear and Concise: A Seminar in Advanced Writing Skills and Strategies is to have participants gain skills and strategies that can be easily applied to and used in various writing situations whether for school or for the work place.
This goal will be accomplished through the following objectives:
Participants will:
- Understand the spectrum of writing forms and functions.
- Recognize and practice various syntax patterns and organizational structures.
- Develop precision of thought through precision of written language.
- Analyze voice as a means to strengthen writing.
- Practice the use of rhetorical sentence structures to persuade and/or argue.
- Analyze and practice economy of language (crisp, clear and concise).
- Learn language nuances and choices and their effect on audience.
- Generalize and apply skills and strategies in all writing situations.
American Speed Reading Corporation
Seminar Outline
Crisp, Clear and Concise: A Seminar in Advanced Writing Skills and Strategies
Introduction Formalizing our thoughts on paper, streamlining, saying what we mean, understanding that although we may read from beginning to end, we do not write from beginning to end (writing as process)
Form, Finesse, and Function Analyzing structures from phrases, sentences, and paragraphs to introductions, conclusions, body sections, unity, coherence, voice, and style
Myths and Magic Blending styles and forms, understanding the role of narration, exposition and description in all writing
Argument and Persuasion Crafting points, beliefs, and positions while unraveling the opposition through the use of simple rhetorical sentence devices
Writing in the Real World Generalizing skills and strategies across writing situations (letters, memos, proposals, position papers, school essays, and journals)
SPEED READING – Seminars For Students
Speed Reading Seminars for Students
Everyone enjoys an edge, especially in the highly competitive world of education. High School students easily spend hours each week pondering through reading assignments and you can double those hours if you are in college or graduate school. All speed reading classes are taught by certified public school teachers and administrators averaging 20 to 25 years of teaching experience.
Learn the proven secrets of note-taking as well as getting the most out of textbook abstracts and journal articles. You will no longer sit starring at piles of books wondering how you will ever get through them. You will learn to zip through reading assignments in a fraction of the time it now takes with better comprehension and recall.