Learning & Memory Techniques

Overview

Professionals are expected to adapt constantly during their careers to new legislation and regulation as well as to changes in technology and practice. The ability to read quickly, a trained memory, and the capacity to ‘think outside the box’ are invaluable skills to the modern professional. This course provides a full practical guide to learning skills and will be useful whether your agenda is to improve your own capacity, to organise and structure information or to develop the learning abilities of others.

Who is this for?

This course will be of benefit to those interested in how to absorb, learn and retain information more effectively, both lawyers and non-law professionals alike.

• Learn how to cope with the vast amount of information received on a daily basis
• Help yourself cope with a career change where you need to learn new skills
• Gain the skills to pass a forthcoming exam

What will you learn?

At the end of this course delegates should be able to:

• Develop an awareness of their individual learning styles
• Organise the learning environment
• Learn how to read efficiently and effectively
• Understand how memory works
• Improve their ability to retain information
• Be effective at recording and note-taking

PSC Elective

This course may be taken as a PSC elective, although it may also be attended by non-trainees.

SRA Competence

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