Mind
Maps® can be used for a wide variety of activities that
involve thinking, learning and communication in
business, in school and at home:
Below
are some of the main applications :
Thinking
Stimulate your thinking using Mind Maps® :
Brainstorming
- this is a process of generating new and creative ideas. The Mind
Mapping® tool enables you to create an infinite number of
thoughts, ideas, links and associations on any topic making it an
ideal tool to stimulate your thinking. It can also be used to
capture ideas in group brainstorming sessions rather than having
hundreds of flipchart's posted around the room! A Mind Map® of
all your ideas can be viewed and distributed quickly and easily.
Example
: Brainstorming Mind Map® to find new ideas
Decision-Making
- A Mind Map® can help you make decisions by helping you to
clarify the go/no go; yes/no; a/b choices about an issue. The more
information you put on your decision map, the more the best
decision will become apparent. If it is still a balanced Mind
Map®, either option may be OK.
Planning
- A Mind Map® makes organising, planning, prioritising and time
management much easier. The order of events can be coded by dates
with the initials of the person responsible. You can use numbers
or symbols to prioritise key tasks and actions.
Example
: Planning Mind Map® of a 50th birthday party
Mind Maps® will help improve how you communicate :
Speeches&
Presentations - Mind
Maps® will help you to write and deliver speeches and
presentations like professional speakers! All the information is
on one page making it easy to keep your place when talking and
remember everything you want to say. No more dropping notes and
forgetting lines!
Note-Taking
- Mind Maps® are the ultimate tool for putting information into
your head from the printed an spoken word i.e., magazines, books,
newspapers, documents, TV, radio, speeches, meetings etc. Use Mind
Maps® to do homework, take study notes and for revising. It's
quick, easy and it makes learning fun! Above all, by using Mind
Maps® for learning, you will improve your recall of the
information by up to 80%!!
Note-Making
- you can also use Mind Maps® to taking information out of your
head and putting it onto paper e.g., writing letters, memo's,
reports, documents, presentations, shopping lists, action-plans
etc.
Example
: Note-Making Mind Map® of a voyage on the QE11
