Cosimo is a highly credentialed instructor of learning techniques. He is an international author and international speaker and he has master level certifications in the following fields: Mind Maps, Speed Reading, Micro-Facial Expressions, Team building, Public Speaking, Effective Communication, Goal Setting, Decision-Making, Personal Development, Time Management, and Memory Techniques. Born and raised in Italy, he and his wife, Stephanie Turconi enjoy training people all over the world. They customize methods that are unique to each person’s learning style and brain development. Cosimo believes “Everyone loves to learn, most of the time what they don’t like is the learning process” so he bridges that gap by teaching people the best process for THEIR brain. Stephanie is a successful international speaker and coach. She specializes in the most advanced learning techniques. In 2010 she started working with Genius in 21 days, within the customer service department. She mastered and became certified in the following fields: team building, public speaking, micro facial expressions, effective communication, customer satisfaction and retention, goal setting, decision making and self-development. She believes “Everyone needs methods, not just “A” method but their method customized on their brain”. After her long experience in the learning field she specialized in helping women entrepreneurs to use their full brain potential by using specific learning techniques to balance work and personal life.
Cosimo can’t help but laugh as he explains what happens when a person underlines and writes summaries in an effort to retain information.
In this segment, students discover the learning channels and the four cognitive styles.
After learning the differences between analytical and global people, students take Cosimo’s easy test to analyze themselves.
After outlining the differences between visual and verbal people, students analyze themselves with Cosimo’s simple exercises.
Students share their results of their cognitive assessment and Cosimo shares the best ways to communicate with different learning styles.
Since unknown vocabulary can decrease concentration, Cosimo asks students to complete a vocabulary exercise, beginning by reading a page in their manual.
Cosimo proves the importance of the preview and asks students to complete a second vocabulary test.
Understand how the brain thinks and replace underlining with keywords for better recall.
Keyword selection, number of keywords, and types of keywords are all personal decisions. With Cosimo’s detailed explanation of keywords, students learn how to choose their best keywords.
Students find out why circles are the best way to designate keywords and mistakes are a vital part of the process.
Practice finding keywords using the article on page 10 of the manual, then compare results with students in the live class.
Cosimo reviews the results of students’ keyword practice, then asks students to preview the entire text.
Cosimo provides feedback as students share the results of the preview in the last segment, then he leads the class in concentration before asking students to circle keywords in the text.
Students share their feedback regarding the keywords practice as Cosimo provides additional information about keywords, then leads the class in concentration before students study again for 10 minutes.
Students share the results of their study session, including how many pages they studied, level of concentration, number of distractions, and the quality of their study.
Students share the results of their study session, including how many pages they studied, level of concentration, number of distractions, and the quality of their study.