Mind Mapping and how it can help you

 




What is Mind Mapping?

Mind mapping starts with an idea, this is normally work orientated however, it can also have a positive impact on a personal level. Both areas of your life can benefit from the fun and effective way mind mapping works.

You can treat it as a brainstorming exercise with your colleagues tackling a specific challenge you may have with a new product you want to get off the ground, incorporate a marketing strategy, proof of concept, costings etc or, a change in direction to service and support to look at all the variables, impacts on employees, locations and basically build the topics you wish to explore linking these to your main idea or goal.

Where to start?

Start with your main topic or objective, this will be the centre of your diagram. Write this in the centre ‘circle’ so it’s a good idea to get yourself a whiteboard or a flipchart, you’ll probably need a lot of space!

Spurring off the centre objective you can then add your sub-topics, areas that are strongly linked to your main objective, these could be employees, office space, computer infrastructure, financing etc.

From your sub-topics you can then add another level, going deeper into the process and the requirements required to make this happen. Freeing up ideas, concepts and concerns for an objective can have a cathartic impact on our minds leaving it clear to move onto the next level.

As we think about something, the mere exercise of putting these ideas down on paper triggers and channels our imagination and creativity focusing on the main objective and any areas big or small that may impact on the process of conception to implementation.

You can use colour as a coding platform for your sub level topics varying on mission critical to nice to have but not essential.

The Benefits

There are many benefits in the process of mind mapping, the main and obvious one is putting your thoughts down on paper so you don’t forget an idea or concept relating to your main objective. It can also promote your thinking pattern and it’s a fun way to learn and understand how your colleagues are thinking when brainstorming together.

On a personal level, a project could be looming at home, whether this is an extension on your house or an academic goal you want to achieve. Breaking this down into component parts, putting pen to paper and recognising the areas or huddles you will need to overcome to reach your goal will give you a clear and concise path to follow even if it’s just helping you get through a tough week that needs a lot of planning. Let’s face it who hasn’t woken up in the middle of the night with a ‘light bulb moment’ and thought I must write that down!

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