The Accelerated Trainer: Using Accelerated Learning Techniques To Revolutionize Your Training

The Accelerated Trainer This page intentionally left blank The Accelerated Trainer Using Accelerated Learning Techniques to Revolutionize your Training LEX McKEE 쑔 Lex McKee 2004 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Mind Maps䉸 are a registered trademark of The Buzan Organization. Tony Buzan is the inventor of the process of Mind Mapping. For more information about Tony Buzan or the process of Mind Mapping, visit www.buzancentres.com. Published by Gower Publishing Limited Gower House Croft Road Aldershot Hants GU11 3HR England Gower Publishing Company Suite 420 101 Cherry Street Burlington, VT 05401-4405 USA Lex McKee has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988 to be identified as the author of this work. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data McKee, Lex The accelerated trainer : using accelerated learning techniques to revolutionize your training 1. Employees – Training of 2. Educational acceleration I. Title 658.3⬘124 ISBN: 0 566 08077 X Library of Congress Control Number: 2003057011 Typeset by SetSystems Ltd, Saffron Walden, Essex Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall Contents List of Figures vii First Words and Dedication ix Introduction: The BIG Picture Overview 1 Phase One: Mindset and Mindsetting – Make Ready! 8 Advanced communication The welcoming environment Connecting and clearing Summary Phase Two: Entrance – Make Sense! Levels of consciousness The BIG picture From dependence to independence to interdependence The content Using breaks to enhance learning Summary Phase Three: Switch OwNership – Make it Intelligible! 9 15 22 29 31 31 34 36 37 40 42 44 Defining the intelligences Putting it together intelligently Summary 46 49 50 Phase Four: Store – Make it Stick! 53 Hierarchies How to Mind Map Five core principles of memory Summary 54 55 64 66 vi Contents Phase Five: Act – Make it Show! 68 Formats for the Act phase How are you doing? Other activities for the Act phase Summary 68 69 71 73 Phase Six: Go-Again – Make it Flow! 75 The review concert How to construct a review concert Practice Summary Phase Seven: Engage – Make it So! Memories of the future The habit of review Becoming engaged Follow-through, validation and evaluation Summary Where Next? Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D 85 85 89 92 95 96 99 In Closing Appendix A 76 80 82 83 100 Answers to questions from Act phase A1 Professional criteria: The elements of competence for the award, ‘Certificate in Accelerated Training Practice’ B1 List of useful resources and contacts C1 Some suggested music D1 Further Reading 121 Index 124 List of Figures 1 The overview of the M.E.S.S.A.G.E.姠 model of Accelerated Training xii 2 Transforming features into benefits 14 3 Connecting and clearing 23 4 A review Mind Map of the Mindset phase 3