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GIVE YOUR DELEGATES TIPS ON HOW TO PREVENT FORGETTING

1. Expect/intend/try to remember. It sounds obvious but the more you imagine or want to remember the less you will forget.
2. Don’t overload the memory, this is important for trainers. Seven items is the most our memories can comfortably handle in one go. Your memory prefers to have only three, four, or five things to remember at one time. Therefore, if you need to remember more than four or five items, you need to break up the group into smaller bites.
3. Understand before you try to remember. So make sure your delegates understand before you move on, ask questions. If you don’t understand something, your memory will have great difficulty storing it.
4. You can’t expect to remember everything you read or hear. Select the most interesting points for yourself by looking for answers to your own questions. You can’t remember everything. If you try, you will probably end up not remembering much at all.
5. Organise the material to be learned in your head. Trainers should follow a logical order. Memory works best when the information is organised.
6. Relate the ideas to what you already know. Trainers should ask delegates questions about the material that will relate to the delegates experience. Your memory will find it easier to store new information if you relate it to old information. Make an association or create a picture in your head to relate unknown ideas to ideas you already have.
7. Use mnemonic devices. Very useful for trainers to offer thier students. These memory devices aid memory, but should be simple, clear, vivid. It is easier to remember the unusual, the funny, or both.
   
   Rhymes:
   “I before E, except after C, or when sounded like A, as in neighbor and weigh.”
   Acronyms:
   IRsoul
   I —— Intend to remember
   R —– Relate the information
   S —– Select important ideas
   O —– Organize the details
   U —– Understand the ideas
   L —– Limit the amount
   Sentences:
   “I Remember So Little Unless Organized.”-
   from the first letter of each of the 6 strategies of memory (listed
   previously).
8. Apply what you have learned immediately. Use it or loose it!

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