Biz Buzz is a radio show featuring business which goes out on the air every week day from 2:00 pm to 3:30. It is usually presented by me Jean Wolfe on a Friday. We have an excellent team of presenters who know and love business and who interview interesting guests.
In the Marlow Bucks (UK) area you can listen in on 97.5 FM or through the internet from elsewhere in Buckinghamshire, the Uk and anywhere in the world.
It is a community radio station spearheaded by Tim Ashburner using volunteers. So as a presenter you have to handle the technology.
My first programme was all about how to learn more easily.
Improving memory
Lysette Offley explained her business which helps independent financial advisors to cope with the pressures of having a full-time job and having exams to pass. Passing these exams will shortly become a legal requirement in order to stay practising as an advisor, so stress can become an additional adverse factor.
Lysette’s background in NLP and hypnotherapy means that she can help individuals discover their own learning style. In her 20 years of teaching she found that if something was not understood it was her responsibility to re-present the information in a variety of different ways. Then learning itself becomes easier.
Her top tips for learning were
1. To do some study each day rather than take, say, a week off .
2. To look again the following day – after sleeping – at the information
3. To only record 10% of the information.
My other guest was Alison Sellers who is an independent financial advisor. I asked Alison whether she had any problems with passing the exams and she “confessed” that she loves learning and has been taking all the exams in her stride.
We discovered that her natural learning style as someone who relishes new information very closely fitted the tips that Lysette gave. Alison is an authority on many areas of financial advice including inheritance planning, wills, mortgages and she has personally invested a great deal of time and money acquiring the relevant information. But it has all been a pleasure!