Learning and Information Skills
How well do you remember?.
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Good information skills are essential for successful professionals.
Early in your career you must study a huge volume of information, simply to become effective. As you become increasingly successful, you'll need to process large volumes of documents, data and reports, just to keep up-to-date in your field.
This section of Mind Tools teaches more than 30 skills that will help you do these things. The articles on note-taking give you powerful tools for recording information, concisely and effectively. The articles on reading help you increase your reading speed and become highly selective about what you read. And the articles on memory help you strengthen your recall of the information you've learned.
The Browse by Category box below will help you target specific groups of learning skills, while you can look through the full list to find interesting topics.
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Cornell Note Taking
Another good note-taking approach
Learning Styles
Learn in the way that suits you
Gardner's Multiple Intelligences
Distinguishing individual profiles of intelligence
4MAT
Delivering instruction everyone understands
Case Study-Based Learning
Enhancing learning through immediate application
The Conscious Competence Ladder
Making learning a more satisfying process
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Learning at the right level
Learning Curves
Learning faster to improve efficiency
Getting the Most from Training Programs
Managing your learning
Encouraging Learning in the Workplace
Helping others learn
Knowledge Management
Making the most of intellectual assets
Developing a Competency Framework
Linking company objectives and personal performance
Developing Surveys
Asking the right questions the right way
The Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition
The five steps to expert learning
Keeping Up-to-Date on Your Industry
Staying informed
Reading More Effectively
Speed Reading
Learning to read more efficiently
Reading Strategies
Reading quickly by reading intelligently
Overcoming Information Overload
Strategies for managing information
SQ3R
Fully absorbing written information
Review Strategies
Committing learning to long-term memory
Information Gathering
Information is inspiration
Memory Techniques
Improve Your Memory
Developing your ability to remember
The Link and Story Methods
Remembering a simple list
The Number/Rhyme Mnemonic
Remembering ordered lists
The Number/Shape Mnemonic
Remembering ordered lists
The Alphabet Technique
Remembering middle length lists
The Journey System
Remembering long lists
The Roman Room System
Remembering grouped information
The Major System
Remembering very long numbers
Memory Games
Have fun while you improve your memory
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