Memory Skills Back

You don’t have to be blessed with good memory from birth to enjoy one. Anyone can enjoy the many benefits of good memory and recall by using powerful memory techniques. Methods, examples and exercises explained in this course can help delegates to improve their memory many times over.

The course provides immediate results. By the end of the course delegates will learn several techniques that they can put to use immediately. Delegates can use these methods to remember list of names, numbers, people and faces, jargons, vocabulary of foreign languages,information from books and school work.

The course is designed with the needs of everyone in mind. From university students to businessmen, academics and professionals, people from all industries and domains can benefit from this course.

By going through this course, delegates will be able to:

• Recall a long list of words with ease
• Pair words together and remember the pairing associations
• Remember a long sequence of numbers
• Remember the data for much longer such as weeks or months
• Remember data by going over it only once
• Avoid using repetition and rote learning techniques that consume so much time and lead to poor short-term results
• Use the memory techniques for learning languages, school or university courses, industry jargons, people’s names and so on

The real power behind the memory techniques explored in this course is that they are easy to understand, quick to apply and amazingly lead to near permanent recall even after being used only once. As explained in the course, the memory techniques can be used in conjunction with methods such as spaced repetition to get impeccable results.

The course focuses on teaching delegates how to remember useful everyday data. The aim is to focus on areas that most people struggle with and wish they could do something about.

This course can be used in conjunction with Learning to Learn for a two day course. It is best if delegates go through Learning to Learn first and then follow it with this course to focus on Memory Skills.

In this highly practical course participants will learn:

How Does the Brain RememberData?

• What is the brain capable of?
• Can you have a photographic memory?
• How does the brain incorporate new information?
• What is the secret to the success of memory champions?
• Why do people forget?

What is the Link Method?

• How to employ the power of imagination
• How to apply the method
• How to get the most from it

How to Take Advantage of Metacognitive Techniques

• What is a metacognitive technique?
• How to apply it
• What can you use it for?
• How to design and customise it so it can be applied to any memory task

How to Remember Long Numbers

• How to take advantage of a proven method used by exceptional memory champions
• How to design the method to suit your needs
• How to code numbers to take advantage of the power of your brain

How to Remember People and Faces

• How to use several powerful techniques to remember faces and names
• How to remember long or difficult names
• How to remember the names of a group of people you have just been introduced to

How to Invent Your Own Mnemonic Devices

• What common mnemonic systems are in use and what can you learn from them?
• What are peg lists and how to use them?
• How to take advantage of visual mnemonics
• How to use several mnemonics devices to remember numbers
• How to use mind maps