Speed Reading Facts
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- The average person in business reads no faster than people did 100 years ago.
- The average reading speed is 200 – 250 words a minute in non-technical material – roughly 2 minutes per page. If you doubt this, test your reading speed - there is a reading speed test elsewhere in this site.
- In technical material, the average reading rate is approx 50 – 75 words a minute – roughly 5 – 6 minutes per page.
- Total information is doubling every 9 months.
- Therefore we have to process information faster and faster just to maintain our existing knowledge level.
- 360 000 new titles are published each year in the English language alone.
- However, the average American college graduate only reads 5 books in his/her post-college lifetime.
- We therefore end up knowing more and more about less, and less and less about just about everything else.
- In business, the average person spends 2 hours a day on work-related information management.
- 90% of this information will be acquired by reading.
- 2 hours per day spent reading is 25% of a workday, 25% of a work-year. On an average salary package of $100K including benefits, leave, office overheads, this is a $25K a year cost to the company.
- On a 36-hour working week, that employee is costing the company approx $50 per hour.
- To expand a business, you either need more resources (increased overheads) or better utilization of existing resources (increased profits).
- By simply DOUBLING the knowledge management reading rate, you free up at least 1 hour a day. On 20 people, you ‘create’ an additional 100 man-hours per week AT NO ADDITIONAL COST TO THE COMPANY. We guarantee to at least DOUBLE your rate – our average is a 5 times increase.
- These additional man-hours are an asset and can be re-invested in acquiring new skills, investigating new opportunities or in overhead cost management.
- In an hourly-billing organization, 100 additional billable hours per week has a profit-potential of $10 000 per week.
- To train 20 people to DOUBLE their knowledge management reading rate, requires a once-only investment of as little as $3900.
- In the first year alone, this investment will ‘create’ an additional 5200 man-hours, a ‘saving’ of $260 000 in knowledge management time and giving you a return on your investment of over 6000 percent.
- At college or university, the average student spends 4 to 5 hours a day reading and studying.
- The cost of a 3-year college degree is approx $40 000.
- The cost of an MBA degree is approx $40 000.
- The cost of failure plus the cost of missed opportunities over a working life-time is considerable.
- To train 20 college students to DOUBLE their knowledge management reading rate, costs as little as $175 per student. We guarantee to at least DOUBLE your rate – our average is a 3-5 times increase.
- For the individual, you ARE what you READ.
- Reading creates knowledge – both specialist and general knowledge.
- Knowledge is wisdom – the ability to consider and evaluate new information relative to what is already known.
- Reading creates vocabulary and an increased ability to communicate.
- Reading has been described as “vicariously experiencing life through the eyes of another.”
So what does ExecuRead do for you?
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- With better comprehension, concentration, retention and recall.
- To manage the flow of new information, to analyze and assimilate new information in terms of what you want and need.
- To maximize on opportunities contained in huge volumes of printed and electronic material.
- To communicate information at many times the speed of verbal communication.
- To develop rate-to-purpose reading skills.
- To develop Mind-mapping skills for better recall and memory.
- To develop Note-taking and note-making skills for seminars, meetings and presentations.
- To acquire a competitive edge over your competitors.
- To achieve Winning Results.
If you believe that you or your company would benefit from being able to process information more productively and more efficiently, call Dr Bruce Stewart NOW, toll-free, at 888 439 3287 (Call 888 4 ExecuRead)
If you want to increase productivity and increases profits, call Dr Bruce Stewart NOW, toll-free, at 888 439 3287 (Call 888 4 ExecuRead)
If you want to save TIME and Money, call Dr Bruce Stewart NOW, toll-free, at 888 439 3287 (Call 888 4 ExecuRead)
We train people to read 2-10 times faster.
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