bullet1 Applied MindManager (Mind Mapping)


Purpose
This training teaches students a new way of generating and managing ideas. Long recognized in Europe, Mind Mapping is a powerful tool for note taking, studying, preparing talks, writing papers, brainstorming, presentations, and task management. In an era when the difference between success and failure can be measured in ideas, this seminar will be as important to companies as it is to employees.

Description
Today’s business is characterized by extremes - extremes in corporate expansion and contraction, changing business paradigms, and intensive competition. In this environment, entrepreneurs must be able to efficiently generate, manage and communicate ideas. Yet classic education favors critical over creative thinking – useful for analyzing, not creating, ideas. Based on the Nobel winning Left/Right Brain research, Mind Mapping was developed to be a more effective thinking tool. Although long accepted in Europe, it is still relatively new in the U.S. Recently available as a software application, Mind Mapping is becoming a key management tool for ideas in the workplace.

Students will learn:
The concept of idea creation as the first step in the idea cycle,
the three thinking styles that 95% of all people fall into, and their limitations, the role of creativity in business, the importance of the left and right brains in Whole-Brain Thinking, Mind Mapping as a formal whole-brain thinking tool, and

The practical application of Mind Mapping software for:

  • Note taking
  • Brainstorming
  • Organizing
  • Project management
  • Presenting
  • Researching
  • Collaborating
  • Export and manage ideas into Microsoft Office

Method
Instruction is through selected readings, lectures, demonstrations and individual exercises. We use a combination of lectures, demonstrations and student exercises. A comprehensive student manual is also included.

Who Should Attend?
Entrepreneurs, managers and anyone else who wants to be more effective in creating and managing ideas.

Session Length
Single or multiple day sessions are available. Contact Emergent Partners for customized training for your company or department.

Enrollment
Contact Emergent Partners to arrange for company training or as an individual for open enrollment sessions.