…caused by incomplete knowledge and skills…or disengaged people Inefficiency in your organisation could appear in the form of constant running around without reaching a decision. It could be colleagues without the necessary skills or confidence to do their own work, or colleagues who are not fully engaged – spending much of their working day ‘going [...]
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Clive posted this on June 10th, 2011
This is filed in: disengaged employees, engagement and motivation, inefficiency, inefficiency in organisations, skill shortages
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It’s a part of daily business life to have to take in, absorb and recall more information than ever and, of course, most of this data arrives in written form – through minutes, reports, proposals, brochures and, of course, texts and emails. A solution to this is to learn how to speed read. Speed reading [...]
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Clive posted this on June 10th, 2011
This is filed in: improving productivity at work, information overload, information overwhelm, reading speed, speed reading, time management
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Time running away, feeling overwhelmed and worrying that you do not have enough hours in the day? Time is the most precious thing we possess and even though we can’t change time we can change ourselves and how we manage our time. Time management is also about how we deal with the traps and habits [...]
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Clive posted this on June 10th, 2011
This is filed in: information overload, information overwhelm, mind mapping, time management
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Working longer hours may keep the boss smiling, but it takes a toll on your output, social life and in some cases your health. In this set of articles we look at some of the reasons you might be working longer hours and some easy tools and techniques you can learn to help you stretch [...]
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Clive posted this on June 10th, 2011
This is filed in: improving productivity at work, inefficiency in organisations, information overload, information overwhelm, time management
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Manage your information overload by learning how to speed read. Here Clive Lewis introduces us to the first principles of a technology that all business professionals cannot be without! You are on your way to a key client meeting or presentation. You picked up a huge file of papers just before you left home and [...]
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Clive posted this on June 8th, 2011
This is filed in: improved comprehension, speed reading
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Now available in e-book formats – the book by Clive Lewis and Anthony Landale that promises to introduce you to a practical reading strategy that will help you become an Extraordinary Reader and eliminate information overload for good. Everyday information gets in the way – phone calls and emails, pod casts and blogs, letters and [...]
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Clive posted this on June 6th, 2011
This is filed in: books and publications, INSEAK, reading speed, speed reading, The Extraordinary Reader
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Despite the current trend in education to treat learners as a homogenous group, there are in fact several different ways in which the human brain processes information. The leading models and theories about thinking illustrate this diversity.
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Clive posted this on June 1st, 2011
This is filed in: the brain, thinking techniques
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