Personal Development Training
Organizational Skills: Managing Information
In Organizational Skills: Managing Information, managers and employees learn how to assimilate and make the best use of the stream of information that flows through their work environment on a daily basis. They
explore ways to process, retain, prioritize, and preserve messages and data that are key to their productivity and effectiveness.
Learn To:
- Appropriately categorize and act on information received via paper, e-mail, and voice mail.
- Use innovative reading and note-taking techniques to improve information comprehension.
- Use association, personalization, and mnemonics to enhance information retention and recall.
- Manage incoming information to prevent information overload.
- Develop effective verbal, written, and electronic outgoing communications.
Content Emphasis: Skills-Based
Audience: Managers and employees who want to learn to manage their incoming and outgoing information.
Total Learning Time: 2 - 4 Hour(s)
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Organizational Skills: Managing Information
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ng43001
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$110.00
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Personal Development Training Curriculum
Unit 1: Background Information
Duration: 0.5 - 1 Hour(s)
- Understand how managing information benefits organizations.
- Recognize the sources of information overload.
- Know how managing information prevents information overload.
- Identify important goals when managing information.
- Simulation Overview: In this simulation, you will be meeting with Pam Armstrong, Icon International's Knowledge Manager, to explore the benefits of managing
information. Through your questions, you will learn how managing information benefits organizations, determine what causes information overload, and identify your main goal when managing information.
Unit 2: The INFO Process
Duration: 0.5 - 1 Hour(s)
- Understand how the INFO Process helps you manage information.
- Note appropriate information on your information chart.
- Focus your information on your job priorities.
- Throw information away when necessary.
- File information effectively.
- Categorize information on which you need to act.
- Simulation Overview: In this simulation you will be meeting with Marcus Robinson, one of Icon International's Information Services Editors, to discuss The INFO
Process. Through your questions and answers, you will learn why it is important to identify your priorities, note information sources, focus your information, and organize your information.
Unit 3: Managing Incoming Information
Duration: 0.5 - 1 Hour(s)
- Use speed-reading to improve your reading skills.
- Draw concept maps when taking notes.
- Manage your e-mail messages effectively.
- Use association and personalization to improve your memory.
- Create acronyms and mnemonics to remember information.
- Review information correctly
- Simulation Overview: In this simulation you will be meeting with Paul White, one of Icon International's Information Services Editors. Through your questions and
answers, you will gain an understanding of why it is important to manage written information, verbal information, electronic information, and how to use your memory.
Unit 4: Managing Outgoing Information
Duration: 0.5 - 1 Hour(s)
- Understand how to send information effectively.
- Follow guidelines for sending information to others.
- Know how to send written information appropriately.
- Send verbal information properly.
- Use guidelines for sending information electronically.
- Simulation Overview: In this simulation you will be meeting with Monica Washington, one of Icon International's Information Services Editors. Through your
questions and answers, you will discover why it is necessary to send information to others, and when information should be sent in a written, verbal, or electronic format.
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