Mind Mapping And Its Benefits.

Their visual basis helps one to distinguish words or ideas, often with colours and symbols. Mind maps allow for greater creativity when recording ideas and information, as well as allowing the note-taker to associate words with visual representations.

1. Break away from your old routine and discover the world of Mind Mapping

2. Transform the way you read to dramatically improve your reading speed.

3. Expanding your comprehension and ability to consume information fast will allow you to reach new levels of understanding and knowledge.

4. Learn more, work faster, and gain the skills to teach others to do the same.

In order to be successful in the long term, people and the organizations they work for need to constantly develop their effectiveness and their efficiency. Here is an outline of some of the ways in which Mind Maps can help:

1. Thinking

2. Change and complexity

3. Volumes of information

4. Planning

5. Changing ways of working

6. Creativity and Innovation

7. Lifelong Learning

We have all experienced the strain of working through the recession. The market is ruthless, and for your business to stay ahead of the competition, you must constantly develop and evolve. Innovation is a prerequisite, not a bonus and so the ability to generate new ideas and find a fresh perspective is more valuable than ever. Find out how Mind Maps can stimulate innovation - whatever your business.

Creativity and Innovation

Innovation and creativity go hand in hand, and you cannot push forward and create a space for innovation within your company without first finding a way to enhance your collective creative skills.

Here is a simple five-step Mind Mapping process for you to follow to create your own brainstorming Mind Maps and boost innovation in your company.

1. The Quick-Fire Mind Map Burst

Begin your Mind Map by setting your central idea, theme, or topic. Choose a stimulating central image that represents the theme or topic you are addressing. From your central idea radiate every idea that comes into your mind on that subject, dividing them into key ideas, or main brain branches. From your main ideas/branches add your sub-ideas or child branches. You should let the ideas flow as fast as possible.

2. First Reconstruction and Revision

Have a short break or move on to another task, allowing your brain to rest and begin to integrate the ideas generated so far. Then make a new map in which you identify the core ideas/branches, categorizing, building up hierarchies, and finding new associations between your preliminary ideas.

3. Incubation

After completing the above steps, take a break - innovation comes from those light bulb moments, and these sudden creative realizations often occur when the brain is relaxed such as daydreaming, sleeping, or running. This is because such states of mind allow the radiant thinking process to spread to the farthest reaches of the brain, increasing the probability of mental breakthroughs.

4. Second Reconstruction and Revision

After incubation, your brain will have a fresh perception of your first and second Mind Maps, so it will be useful to do another quick-fire Mind Map burst. During this reconstruction stage, you will need to consider all the information gathered and integrated into stages 1, 2, and 3 of the process for generating innovation in order to make a comprehensive final Mind Map.

5. The Final Stage

Using your final Mind Map, you now need to search for the solution, decision, or realization which was your original creative goal. This often involves doing further work on your Mind Map - making connections between branches and perhaps adding further sub-branches. Finding connections and patterns that you had not previously been aware of can lead to major new insights, breakthroughs, and genuine innovation.

Why Mind Maps are tools for Innovation

1. Mind Maps are based on the fundamental principles of creativity, and so they are perfectly suited to supporting ideas generation and innovation.

2. They allow you to view a great many elements all at once, thus increasing the probability of creative association and integration, and, consequently, innovation.

3. Innovation is about originality and cutting edge. They encourage your brain to track out ideas that normally lie in obscurity on the edge of your thinking.

4. They tap into your rational and grounded skills and your imaginative and free-associative skills, encouraging them to work together to amplify and focus your thinking - creating the perfect space for innovation.

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