If success in the age of information means staying up-to-date and vitally well informed, then the speed and quality of your reading really does matter.
Time is money and the real cost of an average effective reading speed can sometimes come as a bit of a shock.
Most of us read at a rate of between 200 and 300 words per minute. Let's imagine that reading accounts for just 20% of the workload of an average reader.
What would be the financial benefit of simply doubling that speed?
If the workload remains the same, and reading takes one fifth of the working week, then doubling your reading speed can generate an extra half a day a week of free time.
For someone earning £40,000 per year, then losing that half a day a week is costing around £4000 every year. Add to that the cost of work related stress, and the bill is even higher.
Stimulate and relax the mind with a Rapid Return Extreme Reader training course to accelerate your professional development, widen your knowledge and save valuable time.
How could you benefit?
Reap
greater rewards from your investment in reading time
Gain
up to half a day of extra free time per week
Prepare
more quickly for regulatory examinations
Gain new professional qualifications more easily
Cover meeting briefing notes in half the time
Eliminate your 'read later' pile
Handle emails, letters and reports more efficiently
Take less work home with you
Widen
your field of knowledge
Improve
retention of all the information you read
Reduce
stress from mounting reading volume
Stay
up-to-date with industry information
Increase
efficiency of customer research
Generate more time for profit-building activities
Enjoy more books, articles and special interest magazines
Demonstrate a well-informed opinion on any topic
Practical Training Programmes to Meet Your Needs
Extreme Reader Programme
Our flagship course, Rapid Return Reading - Extreme Reader Programme, runs for one and half days over a two week interval.
The first day covers a comprehensive programme of speed reading skills, left and right brain reading styles, mind mapping and other accelerated learning tools, to improve efficiency in: handling information; raising comprehension and speed of study; and increasing learning efficiency. A base-line reading speed is recorded before the Rapid Return principles are introduced, from which a fair measurement of improvement can be assessed.
Drills and techniques are practiced independently by participants for approximately two weeks, after which a follow-up half-day event is held. The second session expands upon the principles, introducing the application of colour and other accelerators to performance. A final speed is measured to indicate results of the programme and to aid course evaluation.
Improvement is ensured with our Value Guarantee: those who complete the course and achieve less than thebenefit they were seeking determine the real value they gained from the programme and any shortfall is refunded in full. A refund can be up to 100% of fees for an experience of zero value.
View the course outline here.
Focus Programme
Rapid Return presents a selection of half-day seminars, each focussing upon specific interests in reading acceleration.
These shorter events serve as an ideal introduction to the skills and have been proven to generate time savings and relieve work related stress. With larger groups attending, Focus events offer additional regional networking value. Topics include:
Adding the cost of limited reading skills within a medium to large organisation in time, stress, absense and administrative backlog, clearly illustrates the advantage of in-house delivery of speed reading development programmes.
While all of our courses can be adapted to the needs of in-house clients, the Train the Trainer course demonstrates outstanding value and long term benefit.
The three-day residential course is ideal for training managers, independent consultants and facilitators and covers all aspects of design and delivery of acceleratd learning events from course content and methodology through learner support to costing and pricing of programmes.
Rapid Return Development 
Adding the cost of limited reading skills within a medium to large organisation in time, stress, absense and administrative backlog, clearly illustrates the advantage of in-house delivery of speed reading development programmes. 