Mind Maps at work

Posted by Faizel Mohidin on May 24, 2009 in Mind Mapping, Mind Maps at Work | 0 comments

This article is going to be a promotion. Before you run away; No, I’m not selling anything! I’m simply promoting the use of Mind Maps at work. Many people have used Mind Maps to study and learn faster and easier, but they don’t realise the power that Mind Maps could have in the workplace. Whether you are an employee, or a business owner, you owe it to yourself to explore the use of Mind Maps at work.

I suggest that you do our online Introduction to Mind Mapping course, regularly read the articles on MindMapTutor.com and subscribe to our weekly newsletter.

If you are not using any Mind Mapping software at the moment then go and download Xmind or FreeMind Mind Mapping software. Both are free and have great functionality. Once you have ‘played’ a bit with this, you can explore the commercial Mind Map software tools.

Once you’ve done the course and downloaded the software, you will be armed to tackle the use of Mind Maps at work.

The promotion…

Do you want to:

• Achieve success at work?
• Increase your performance dramatically?
• Be happy in your job?
• Be in control of your own career?
• Set goals and achieve them?
• Come up with ideas and creative solutions?
• Deliver excellent presentations?
• Stand up for yourself and your ideas?
• Be a key player at work?
• Lead your team to excellence?
• Live a life of passion?

If you answered is ‘yes’ to any of these questions, then Mind Maps could be your solution. Mind Maps help you set and achieve all your goals and ambitions in the workplace – and still have time to play!

With Mind Maps, you have an infinite ability to impress your colleagues and shine in the workplace.
Mind Maps can bring out your talents and make any challenge that comes your way an opportunity to demonstrate your brilliance.

Mind Maps will help you:

• Plan to perfection
• Awaken your creative genius
• Find inspired solutions to any problem
• Recall facts under pressure
• Motivate your team to success
• Deliver lively and exciting presentations
• Achieve a good work-life balance
• Love your work

Mind Maps will help you not only to survive, but to thrive positively at work. You can build up a clear vision of where you are heading and cut through the mundane details. With this clarity, you can plot your course, confident in your ability to reach your goal.

Mind Maps have helped all kinds of individuals and businesses to achieve their potential and become great places to work. Mind Maps have also assisted millions of individuals all over the world to realise their dreams and achieve their ambitions.

Here are a few examples quoted by Tony Buzan in his book ‘Mind Maps at work’:

• Planning Perfection – Con Edison, supplier of energy to New York, used Mind Maps to plan the restoration of power to Manhatten after 9/11
• Creative Inspiration – Design engineers at Boeing use Mind Maps in group meeting to brainstorm ideas
• Thinking Big – Mind Maps have been used to plan entire cities in The Gulf
• Success after disaster – When Veritas in Singapore burnt down, the vice president and his colleagues used Mind Maps to get it up and running again within 10 days
• Global Rebranding – John Scully, the man credited with taking Apple computers into the big league, used Mind Maps to develop his ideas and record his research for their new look
• Profit turnaround – Mex, a restaurent chain in the USA, was brought back from the verge of bankruptcy with Mind Maps

When you start using Mind Maps at work, you will be astounded by how much simpler and easier things become. Mind Maps are positive catalysts for change and clear away the confusion, allowing you to highlight and focus on your goals and targets. And more importantly, it promotes the acquisition of knowledge.

Mind Maps can help you in an infinite number of ways. Tony Buzan, the inventor of Mind Maps, describes them as ‘workers’, just like you. They work hard, enabling you to think radiantly and unleash your own incredible potential. He goes on to say that they are also team players and are invaluable in facilitating communications:

• Between individuals
• In the Boardroom
• Across whole companies

Mind Maps can make being part of a team enjoyable and creatively inspiring. If you are a team leader or a manager, your skills as a motivator will be enhanced.

With Mind Maps at your side, you are able to achieve a much finer sense of work-life balance. And if you work at home, you can separate your home life and work commitments and have the best of both worlds.

Mind Maps will become your allies. They will be there to support you in any working situation.

Now that you know that Mind Maps are more than just a memory or learning tool, go ahead and do our free, no obligation Introduction to Mind Mapping course and begin to reap the rewards you deserve.