Q. How do I know if my people would benefit from your program?
A. You can do a quick survey, asking them to estimate the number of hours they spend reading each week. Include E-mail, reports, correspondence, memos and journals. You can also ask them how much time they should be spending reading. If you want an exact accounting, we have prepared forms for tracking their reading each hour. Have them take one of our Sample Tests to compare themselves to others.


Q. Is there any minimum number of hours my people need to be reading for the course to pay off?
A. While being a great reader has numerous benefits, from a bottom-line view, if they are reading more than three hours per week, it's certainly worth it. Do a survey and then ask me again!


Q. We're in a city in which you don't teach. What can we do about classes?
A. A SuperReading® instructor can do a kick-off seminar and leave tests behind for each participant. Our online E-Learning course has EVERYTHING they need. Daily E-mail follow up keeps them working on their techniques. Video conferencing can also be arranged for an additional fee.


Q. Why can't I just buy some books on speed reading and hand them out?
A. Traditional speed reading does not address the needs of technical readers. I've seen no book that provides anything like what we've got. Besides, you know and I know only 2% of them will even pick it up. We are the only company that guarantees to at least triple the abilities even if they have taken other courses. We're that much better.


Q. How long do these techniques last?
A. We see that most people see a five to ten fold increase in their abilities during the five week course. Without regular practice, people slip back to about triple where they came in. That's still very good. With continued practice, they continue to improve in the weeks and months following the course. Their skills become better and more automatic with time.


Q. How many people can you effectively teach at one time?
A. SuperReading® has been taught to groups with as many as 78 participants. I prefer groups of 24 to 30. With an assistant, groups of 50 or 60 can be handled with a good degree of observation. Much larger groups can be accommodated, though individual attention will be sacrificed to a higher degree. With more assistants, more people can be included. We can even work with your trainers after 20 minutes of preparation.


Q. Sometimes I'm reading along, I get to the bottom of the page, and I realize that I have almost no idea of what I just read. Will SuperReading® help?
A. Absolutely. This is what we're all about. From Day One you will get two tools that virtually eliminate that from happening. You would have to be really exhausted or quite ill for that to happen again. The only other possibility would be a traumatic event in your life that leaves you in shock. I only mention such things because that's what it would take to throw off your focus when you use our simple yet powerful techniques.
     Imagine how much time will be saved just from preventing that problem from occurring. Our students tell us that before the course, that would happen all the time. It made them feel guilty to be reading because they weren't spending time on their job assignments. They felt especially bad when they would take 20 or 30 minutes and realize they had been daydreaming most of the time.


Q. How does your guarantee apply to groups?
A. Anyone who does the homework, shows up to at least four of the classes, and has practiced using the techniques is guaranteed to at least triple. If they do not at least triple, there is no charge for that person.


Q. What about our employees whose native language is not English? (ESL)
A. People whose native language is not English are guaranteed to at least double; though virtually all do at least triple. We can offer special classes just for ESL employees. We do this because they have special needs at high speeds. Many of them still translate in their head, and this slows them down. It just takes them a little longer to get past that. Having their own class also saves the English speakers from having to wait for the others to finish.
     While native English speakers are always polite and respectful, the waiting can be a source of frustration. Here they are- finishing a passage in record time, then they have to wait. And although the ESL people are breaking their own records, the perception is "I went real fast and now I'm just sitting here."
     Do you remember when some functions on the computer routinely took 10 to 15 seconds or more? Now, if we have to wait more than a second or two, it seems like an eternity. It's the same perception.


Q. We had a Needs Analysis done and reading skills didn't come up. Why not?
A. Two reasons. Few people are aware that reading takes up so much valuable time. I recently spoke with a Fortune 500 company that just sent out an employee needs survey last week. There wasn't one question about reading. Not a single one. Yet most people these days spend at least 20% of their time reading. That's a workday a week! Many are spending 40% and more. How would you feel if your people just left work at noon next Thursday? That's how much time can be lost to ineffective reading skills.
     The second reason is that nobody believes that anything can be done to effectively help in this area, especially when it comes to technical reading. There are a variety of reasons, ranging from simple ignorance to "we tried speed reading once." SuperReading has solved the problems inherent in traditional "speed reading." The fact that technical readers can save 50% to 90% of their reading time and get better recall must be recognized sooner or later.


Q. I've spoken to some of my people and they feel they read well enough. They say they're faster than most. Are they correct?
A. Most people have no idea of their speed or comprehension. We've had PhD's take our tests and they are horrified to discover how poor their skills are. Most people only compare themselves to other inadequate readers. Even if they are twice as fast as their co-worker, that's still very slow when compared to even our lowest performing graduates. Also, their comprehension and recall is probably a third of what they think it is.
       Besides, who wants to sound like a sluggard to the boss? They probably figure you'll never know for sure what their skills are, so why appear to be a dim bulb? Forget the drug tests, give them a reading test! That's where you’ll find a big impact on their productivity.


Q. So bottom line, how much is poor reading costing my company?
A. My answer is always conservative, so there are nice surprises later. For 100 employees earning $50K per year, it's costing you $1,000,000 per year for them to sit there and read. And that's if they only read 8 hours per week!
       For $40,000, you could reclaim 20,000 hours of technical work to your efforts. Whatever your problems and deadlines, I have to believe that 20,000 hours would have to make an impact. If not, you need to seriously look at your business. For the price of a good Admin, you can get 20,000 hours of technical expertise. Of course, that's just the first year. Those reclaimed hours are free after that! And remember, these figures are a worst case scenario that would mean your people didn't even triple!


Q. Simply put, what do we get for our money?
A. Your people will be able to process written information 3 to 15 times faster, with far better comprehension and recall than at present. They will be reading more information in less time with better results. They can use that time they were spending reading on what you actually hired them to do.
       If you follow the numbers, it means that with the time freed up, you are buying back the hours of a typical engineer at about 50 cents an hour! If that doesn't make bottom line sense, what could?


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               Annual Salary: 60000 ($60K)
               Hours Reading per week: 10
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