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Gathering, analysing, absorbing, remembering and communicating information are essential skills in this time of increasing work pressure and information overload. But the prospect of acquiring these skills often seems like yet another burden added to the vast amounts of data we already have to process. Now there’s another way – one that makes it easy and fun to learn. In the car, at the gym – or wherever suits you best – you can be absorbing tips and techniques from the ‘For Success …’ series of audio books.
Speed Reading for Success
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The ability to read fast with good recall is essential for anyone who wants to achieve success in this age of information. But with mounting work pressures and conflicting priorities, it can be hard to absorb the knowledge you require. Speed Reading for Success makes it easy to learn these skills in simple steps that will take you just a few hours.
CD Contents
Track 1: Introduction
Track 2: Your starting point
Track 3: How the eyes work
Track 4: Techniques for reading faster
Track 5: Let’s talk about peripheral vision
Track 6: The high-speed skim
Track 7: Stretching speed & comprehension
Track 8: Styles of reading
Track 9: Storing & recalling information
Track 10: Top tips for speed reading success
ISBN 0954886003: consists of one 75-minute audio CD and 16-page colour booklet.
Memory and Learning for Success
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pdf brochure (880 KB).
The ability to remember is both more important and more of a challenge than ever before. Yet many people worry about their capacity to remember the facts, ideas, statistics, new names and faces that confront us at every turn. And minor memory lapses often lead to feelings of insecurity, higher stress levels and further problems. But in reality, everyone has an infinite capacity to remember. Memory and Learning for Success offers practical steps you can take to make the most of your brain's amazing capacity to remember. The skills and approaches I describe will enable you to remember everything that you need – and your creativity, efficiency and confidence will also improve.
CD Contents
Track 1: Introduction
Track 2: Your fantastic memory
Track 3: How does your memory work?
Track 4: Mind Mapping for memory and learning
Track 5: More tools and techniques for remembering
Track 6: The psychology of learning
Track 7: Making the most of your mind
ISBN 095488602X: consists of one 77-minute audio CD and 24-page colour booklet.
Coaching and Mentoring for Success
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Coaching & Mentoring
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This package provides listeners with all the knowledge and understanding they need to be a successful coach or mentor. It explains what coaching and mentoring actually involve, how to get on well with learners and ensure that they succeed in achieving their goals.
CD contents (2 CDs)
Track 1: Introduction
Track 2: Coaching or mentoring?
Track 3: Developing a learning relationship
Track 4: Interpersonal skills
Track 5: Engaging the learner
Track 6: Coaching
Track 7: Mentoring
Track 8: Providing advice and support
Track 9: Monitoring and Review
Track 10: Self evaluation and development
Useful weblinks
ISBN 0954886011: consists of 2 audio CDs (total playing time 124 minutes)
Includes access to online resources, useful templates and forms. There's more information about this great-value development tool in the Coaching and Mentoring for Success pages of this website.
Coaching
and Mentoring for Success has been endorsed by OCR (Oxford Cambridge and RSA Examinations) for use with the OCR Certificate in Coaching Learners specification and the OCR Certificate in Mentoring in the Workplace specification.
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