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Mind mapping for professional effectiveness
Bring clarity to an expanding flow of ideas and information. Use mind mapping to structure your thinking, visualise connections and prepare presentations of your work. Develop a way of working that makes it easier to synthesise information, stay organised and share your reasoning.
- Duration
- 2 days 14 hours
- Code
- MGMT21FR Code
Presentation
Improve individual and collective effectiveness with mind mapping.
Mind mapping is an approach that develops individual or group abilities to generate ideas, organise information, make decisions, remember information, and manage projects and tasks. It is a valuable working tool for improving performance and building a positive approach with colleagues while becoming more creative.
A mind map is an excellent synthesis tool that can help any professional work more effectively, whatever the subject. Mind mapping software takes this further with additional tools, particularly for collecting information.
Note: confidence using a computer is recommended for the software element, although this is not the central focus of the course.
Objectives
- Understand how mind mapping works and apply its techniques.
- Master the techniques for building a mind map.
- Work more effectively through better note-taking, stronger recall and a clearer overview of projects, tasks and problems to solve.
- Increase your creativity and your ability to prepare presentations, meetings and projects.
- Use digital mind mapping: build a mind map with software.
Program
- Mind mapping fundamentals and first applications
- Introduction to mind mapping principles.
- Reading a mind map.
- Designing a map: principles, rules and a touch of imagination.
- Creativity and problem-solving.
- Designing pictograms.
- Asking effective questions about a problem.
- Preparation as the key to effectiveness.
- Concentration and attention.
- What is an idea?
- How to remember information easily and for the long term.
- Learning quickly and extensively with a mind map.
- Easily refreshing your knowledge through mind mapping.
- Practical applications of mind mapping, by hand and with software
- How to create a well-designed map.
- Choosing the central topic.
- Organising branches.
- Using colours and illustrations effectively.
- Common mistakes to avoid.
- Applying mind mapping to note-taking.
- Applying mind mapping to preparing and facilitating meetings.
- Applying mind mapping to project management.
- Getting started with mind mapping software.
- Choosing mind mapping software: iMindMap, Mindjet, XMind, Freemind and Novamind.
- Getting started with Freemind.
- Principles and rules common to mind mapping software.
- Online applications and collaborative use.
- Experimenting with maps as a team, on a whiteboard and with software.
- How to create a well-designed map.
- Practical exercises
Numerous exercises help you apply the course content. You will create hand-drawn mind maps using paper and pencil on A4 sheets, flipcharts and whiteboards. You will prepare and deliver a short presentation using maps, learn to use Freemind in a meeting, practise taking notes during a presentation, and help facilitate a working group using mind maps.
Audience
Anyone seeking to improve their effectiveness in operational communication and in managing information and ideas.
Prerequisites
No prerequisites are required to attend this course.
Teaching and assessment methods
- Initial skills assessment
- Training materials provided to participants
- Continuous assessment throughout the course
- End-of-course feedback questionnaire
- Combination of theory and practical application
- Attendance records
- Post-course follow-up evaluation
Dates and sessions
Choose the date and delivery format that suit you.
No upcoming sessions are currently available.