“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My Philosophy
“I feel that you should be able to get brilliant training that meets and exceeds your needs, for a fair price. I believe that you should be able to take us for a test drive to get a feel for the service. The Alchemy tools will work for you. They have been tried and tested since 1992.
I believe there is no company in the UK or Europe that can match us for easy, powerful tools that simply work.
I give one-day workshops, but prefer multiple classes that ensure people “embody” the information and techniques. University studies show that after 16 days, people only remember 2% of what they learned without reinforcement. Is that 2% really what you want to pay for?
If you use a training company now, and want to compare, give us your lowest performers. In a short time they will rank amongst your top performers. Why? We not only teach great tools and techniques, we can help your people discover WHY they don’t use tools to full advantage. Then, we help them “get out of their own way.” That is worth more than you might believe.
Just give us a call. We’re real people who know how to help you accomplish anything you desire. If you have the will, we have the way.”
-Ron Cole
How I teach...
“I like to provide a learning environment that’s safe, fun, friendly, open, versatile and interactive. I invite questions, discussions, debates, opinions and notions.
I’m told the time goes by quickly and nobody gets bored. Cool.”
-Ron Cole
The combination of SuperReadingTM and SuperMemoryTM techniques enable students to absorb information and recall it effortlessly for exams and beyond. These simple yet powerful techniques make learning fun and takes the stress away from testing.
Confidence in themselves and the love of learning result in a different kind of student: one who is motivated and excited to soak up new information. The creativity involved in the memory tools enhances expansive, lateral thinking.
HIGH ACHIEVERS:
Since 1995 I have observed that students who excel at academics have, in some ways, the most to gain from these tools. Even the best readers in a school are only operating at about 10% of their true potential. This has been measured with speed / comprehension tests before and after the SuperReadingTM Program. This phenomenon has also become apparent when these same ‘superstars’ are compared to ‘average’ students who have taken SuperReadingTM. The formerly average students outperform the high achievers by a wide margin, both in speed and recall.
EXAMPLE: In one school, the highest achiever was an 8th year student named Jacob. His incoming Reading Effectiveness score was 162 (reading about 270 wpm with 60% recall. After 5 weeks his score was over 5,400. He was reading at 6,000 wpm with 90% recall.
We use essays 400 words in length. When Jacob started, it took him 90 seconds to read the 400 word essay. After 5 weeks it took him only 4 seconds to read the same length (different topic) and do so with higher comprehension and recall (60% to 90%).
To this day I do not understand how he did it. I only know he did it consistently. I retested the group 6 months later. On that particular day Jacob scored 4320. It took him 5 seconds to read the essay with 90% recall.
To get a feel for his accomplishment, read this page to the end from the next paragraph in 3 seconds and see what you remember! It’s 364 words in length. The message is that seemingly high achievers have not fully tapped their potential abilities. SuperReadingTM and SuperMemoryTM can provide them with that opportunity.
POOR PERFORMERS:
In so many Western societies, the response to falling test scores has been to “raise the bar.” To me, this like when a bank charges a fee for “insufficient funds.” Their customer was already low on money. How does charging £30 help or make sense? Students are already feeling pressured by having to take exams. Making the tests more difficult isn’t really addressing the problem. They need better tools. They need to be able to read with better focus and concentration, and they need to be able to easily remember what they’ve learned. “Raising the bar” is NOT motivational. Making learning fun and easy is!
EXAMPLE:
I had a 6th year student named Chris. He had been to see about 20 professionals in the school district because of his poor reading skills. Nothing had helped. In desperation his mother enrolled him in SuperReadingTM. On the first day it took him over 6 minutes to read a 400 word essay. He could not answer a single question. The other students all finished by 3 minutes. After 4 weeks, Chris had never made eye contact with me. Finally his skills began to manifest. He finished in under 3 minutes and could answer 5 of the questions. When he saw his score, he asked me if it was correct. I told him yes. As his accomplishment dawned on him, his eye began to sparkle (he finally made eye contact!) and he was sporting an ear-to-ear grin. His scores continued to climb and he improved in all his subjects, according to his mother. He became one of the best readers in his class. (see letter at right)
CONCLUSION:
Since 1995 I’ve seen all types of students, from Year 4 through Postgraduate university, I’ve not found one who did not improve after learning and using these skills. Some were already flying high, but nothing compared to what they accomplished after the course. The important point is that for each of them, compared to how they were before, their self-esteem and belief in themselves was forever changed. They are now ‘superstars’ in their own right, love learning, and can follow their natural inclinations with nothing holding them back in their ability to read and retain.
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
-William Butler Yeats
About Ron Cole
Ron received a BA in Psychology from the State University of New York in 1977. His concentration was in Sociology. He received a further degree from the State University of New York in 1979 in the field of Education.
Ron earned other degrees in Hypnotherapy, Business Coaching and Personal Coaching. This experience came after managing a full service advertising agency in San Jose, California. In the early 1990s Ron made a transition from advertising to coaching.
Ron has published three books to date, has written a fourth and is working on a fifth.
He moved to the UK in 2004 and lives on the south coast of England with his wife, three teenagers, three dogs and five cats. And a few fish.
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