Note-taking is a skill and like all skills are preformed better after instruction from experts. A good note-taker can benefit in many ways from this essential skill.

• Taking notes is a great way of identifying important concepts and nine out of ten transferable skills most desired by employers requires note-taking.

• Effective notes can improve your learning and listening skills.

• Self-management and organisation were identified by managers as key qualities in promotion considerations.

To be most effective, these skills should be introduced to the individual and illustrated with concrete examples. Note-taking requires the individual to learn some note-taking strategies and methods via constant referral to reference material until the ability to quickly and effectively create concise notes has become an automatic process.

Notes are not just random collections of information. The information must be recorded correctly and systematically in an organized manner. This allows the individual to use the material at a later time. Note taking strategies therefore are designed to improve the ability to take more accurate, more complete, and more organized notes.

Note taking skills are not just for students, but note-taking strategies may also be applied in the workplace.

Improving one's note taking skills are advantageous for a number of reasons because they:

- Increase your effectiveness in meetings and reviews.
- Boost your information retrieval speed.
- Enhance your organisational and time management abilities.
- Help one to pay better attention to an oral presentation or written document because they improve your learning skills.
- Help you become an active listener.
- Lead great meetings and never forget an action!

In school, good note-taking aid in understanding of material, preparation for exams, and completion of assignments. They also improve reading comprehension.

Note-taking skills are broadly applicable to a variety of tasks and subjects. Once they are mastered, the skills often become "second nature" and therefore don't require repeated work to use, unlike some the memory strategies.

As mentioned previously note-taking is often required for the recording of Oral presentations. This is without doubt the most difficult notes to take. Either in school or in business note-taking of oral meetings, lectures, or other presentations is essential.

The average rate of speech is about 125-150 words per minute, however the average human being hand writes at 22-31 words per minute.

You can see that note-taking is a problem when people are speaking at a rate five time faster than you are writing notes. This is where accelerated writing techniques will enhance the ability of the individual to record information.

A fully trained secretary using shorthand methods have reached speeds of 280 words per minute for recording information. However that vast majority of people don't have the time to invest in learning a comprehensive shorthand system. However accelerated writing techniques once learned can improve note-taking between 3-5 times the average speed.

In November of 2009 XGI Publications announced the sale of "Effective Note-taking". This book fills the need for up-and-coming managers, students, or anyone, who have not had formal training in information recording and retrieval. This book teaches the reader accelerated writing techniques that improve recording speed for notes well above the average 22-31 word per minute level of most people.

This book improves the readers organisational and time management skills. Enhancing the readers note-taking skills is important because 9 out of 10 transferable skills most desired by employers requires note-taking.

This book is filled with reference material that the reader will return to again and again.

ISBN: 9780956399403