Fun and finance in the same room? (Transco develops Accelerated Learning system to deliver Financial Awareness Course)

Management Accounting (UK), March, 1998

UK gas transportation concern Transco has developed an Accelerated Learning system to deliver a Financial Awareness Course. It has been demonstrated that Accelerated Learning, which can be used in self-managed learning sets, coaching, distance learning and coaching, generally boosts learning and retention by between 25% and 30%. It is based on understanding and applying people's natural learning skills, and places strong emphasis on having fun, recognizing that people's emotional state when they learn is extremely important. It acknowledges that people have many different sorts of intelligence and that everybody thinks differently.

`Take a few seconds to remember the last finance presentation you attended.

`When you can remember it fully, start to write down the...

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