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Once again this year we are supporting the Campaign for Learning’s Learning at Work Day event on 23rd May 2013. To celebrate this and the forthcoming launch of our latest e-learning course, Effective Speed Reading, we have set up a competition with a chance to win a place on the speed reading e-learning course. Entry [...]

The world has moved into a new era in the last 30 years. Instead of the Industrial Age, we are now living and working in the Information Age; the pace of both technological and cultural change is faster than ever before. Successful businesses have always been the ones run by people who create new products [...]

Illumine Training, the management and personal skills development training company, officially launched its ‘Illumine Guide to Learning’ app today. The free app, created specifically to make business professionals and students more effective and efficient in how they learn and absorb information, is the distillation of over 16 years experience of training businesses and students. The [...]

Sensory memory and short-term memory work in cooperation in order to help the brain store information for later recall. When information is first received by means of one of the five senses (sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell), it is retained for a very brief period of time in the sensory registers. The amount of [...]

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 [...]

Creative thinking in business is one way to turn problems and challenges into opportunities and better ways to work. In this article, Richard Evans, Marketing Manager of Illumine Training provides an insight into how he harnesses and stimulates business creativity…

WIN AN ONLINE MIND MAPPING COURSE To support Learning at Work Day (19 May 2011), Illumine Training are offering the opportunity to win an online Mind Mapping course. Improve note taking, think more creatively, improve memory and raise your effectiveness – all on one page with the award winning ‘Introduction to Mind Mapping E-learning course’. [...]

Training specialist, Illumine, has found that its speed reading courses are not only helping to improve delegates’ reading speeds but also helping them overcome the stress of ‘information overwhelm’. Although most of the literature on reading speed suggests that an average reading speed is between 240 and 250 words per minute (wpm), individuals attending Illumine’s [...]

If you are one of those people who still takes linear notes in meetings, or you use notes as an aid for training, for course revision or even as a record of ongoing project work then it really is time for a personal breakthrough in productivity. Cut down on your labour, improve your memory and use [...]

Illumine, the practical thinking training specialist is pleased to support National Learning at Work Day 2010. We are offering a number of FREE resources specifically chosen for organisations to be able to use with individuals and teams. National Learning at Work Day 2010 will take place on 20 May as part of Adult Learners’ Week [...]

Illumine, the practical thinking training specialist, has turned its highly successful and acclaimed webinar on Mind Mapping into an equally successful e-learning programme. Illumine – the world’s leading provider of Mind Mapping training for business – has developed a nine module e-learning programme which provides an introduction to Mind Mapping. Illumine was prompted to produce [...]

Illumine Limited, the Windsor-based training consultancy, has been conducting an online survey into Mind Mapping, the advanced thinking and learning technique developed by Tony Buzan. The survey was launched to help give a better understanding of the popularity and uses of Mind Mapping. It gives a powerful insight into people’s perception of Mind Mapping, the [...]

When you are recruiting top talent do you consider whether candidates have any passion for their work? Anthony Landale reports on an issue that is rising up the recruitment and retention agenda. I read an interesting statement the other day. Apparently most people thought that they were capable of improving their performance at work by [...]

News Release from Think on Your Feet International, Inc. The ability to think on your feet is now becoming a core global skill—even in these tough times!! In fact, it’s a core skill because times are tougher. No better time than now to be clearer in your messages…. Over 20 countries are taking part in [...]

A new book by Clive Lewis promises to help you become an Extraordinary Reader and eliminate information overload, for good. Here Anthony Landale reports on a new reading strategy that will get you the knowledge you need, fast. “We have met the enemy and he is us” is the evocative title of a new report [...]

As part of a global innovation programme, the worldwide insurer, Allianz, has been looking to develop practical creativity in the workplace. Here Anthony Landale outlines the drivers for innovation and reports on the drive for new thinking at all levels of the business. Innovation is a big game in business. It promises to break open [...]

As part of an Advanced Leadership Programme, the National School of Government has been teaching top civil servants how to get creative. Here Anthony Landale outlines the approach taken and reports on some of the key techniques they have been learning. Every organisation wants to encourage creativity in its people. Why? Because it is through [...]

Hallmark Cards is the UK’s leading greeting card company producing some of the most innovative ranges on the market. So how come its people need training in creativity?  Anthony Landale takes a look. Did you know that Britain is the ‘greetings card’ centre of the world? In total we send an astonishing 2.2 billion cards [...]

Many financial professionals have real problems when trying to get their message across clearly and concisely to colleagues and clients. So how can they transform their ability to communicate? Clive Lewis, a speaker at this year’s ACCA conference, explains that it’s all about understanding brain power. As accountants and financiers we face a pressing challenge… [...]

Tony Buzan, the originator of Mind Maps® and the author of over 80 books on how to think and learn more effectively, has appointed Illumine Training as his preferred partner in delivering skills and development programmes to the corporate market in the UK. EMBARGO: April 7th 2005 The training covered by the exclusive deal will [...]