Mindmaps in Management

I attended a sharing about mind-mapping in the classroom during the mini conference on Thursday and is impressed with the amount of work gone into inculcating this very useful tool into our learning environment. It is evident that we have confident and passionate people who believe in the merit of this and it is important that we drive this through with perseverance.

For mind-mapping to be successful in the classrooms, it must be as immersive as we can allow it to happen. Very much like how one's acquiring of a new language can be done so much more effectively with immersion. Teachers familiar with this tool have to use it whenever it is apt so that it will gradually be infused as part of the pupils' visual language.

When playing around with the recently acquired iMindmap software, I was researching online about the how corporations use mindmapping software in GTD environments. I stumbled onto this clip on YouTube about how mindmaps came into play for project management and immediately felt the need to incorporate this as part of my workflow.

With end of the year planning just around the corner, there cannot be a better time to start using this. Really wish that the all pen and paper mindmappers (including myself not that long ago) will give the mindmapping softwares a try. The dynamic way in which they can be revised makes it a truly useful tool.