COURSE OVERVIEW:

Mind Mapping is a highly effective way of getting information in and out of your brain. Mind Mapping increases your creativity and productivity because it’s an excellent tool to let you generate more ideas, identify relationships among the different data and information, and effectively improve your memory and retention.

All Mind Maps have some things in common. They have a natural organisational structure that radiates from the centre and use lines, symbols, words, colour and images according to simple, brain-friendly concepts. Mind Mapping converts a long list of monotonous information into a colourful, memorable and highly organised diagram that works in line with your brain's natural way of doing things.

The great thing about Mind Mapping is that you can put your ideas down in any order, as soon as they pop into your head. You are not constrained by thinking in order. Simply, throw out any and all ideas, then worry about reorganising them later.

Making a Mind Map is an excellent way for you to be able to sort through your thoughts. This activity allows you to quickly generate creative and even unique ideas in less time. It gives you the freedom you need when brainstorming so that the flow of ideas is not blocked or hampered like linear thinking does.

This method is a great way for you to categorise and organise the ideas you brainstormed and identify their relationships. By using a single page or space you can already place a huge amount of information and check its connections. Making connections is easier to do because you have all the information about a particular topic in a single glance. It can even help you discover new relationships among seemingly unrelated ideas and information.

The first part of this course sets out the principles and background for your subsequent work with Mind Mapping. It begins by explaining what characterises a Mind Map and how to create your first Mind Map, also what you can use Mind Maps for. Then discusses how and why visualisation can help you and the visualisation method. Then explains how to use branches to structure all information, how to work with keywords to establish core information and how to use graphic elements to exploit the possibilities of Mind Mapping. Then shows how to develop your own style. Furthermore, explores how people assimilate and process information. Finally, presents Mind Maps as a brain-friendly technique and shows when Mind Maps aren’t the right method.

The second part covers Mind Maps which are generated with a pen and paper and introduces the technique’s main areas of application. It starts by explaining how to apply Mind Maps to talks and lectures and how to prepare a Mind Map lecture manuscript. Then explains how to put sentences into a Mind-Map form and how to develop definitions and enter them in Mind Maps. Then discusses how to make Mind-Map notes on a text and present whole books in a Mind Map. Finally, examines the different kinds of note-taking and the characteristics of talks and meetings and how note-taking with Mind Mapping works.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

By the end of this course, you will be able to understand:

·       What is Mind Mapping?

·       The five essential characteristics of Mind Mapping

·       Mind Mapping for work productivity

·       Mind Mapping for academic success

·       Mind Mapping for life management

·       How to present information visually in Mind Maps?

·       The usage of Mind Mapping for lectures and taking notes from texts, books, presentations and discussions

·       The usage of Mind Mapping in project management and knowledge management

·       Why using a pen and paper are often preferable in Mind Maps?

·       What Mind Mapping software provides?

·       How and why visualisation can help you?

·       How to reduce complexity and present information in Mind Maps?

·       How visualising information is a core skill in Mind Mapping?

·       What science has to say about Mind Maps?

·       The visualisation method used for Mind Mapping

·       How to generate Mind Maps?

·       How to use Mind Mapping effectively?

·       How to work with keywords to establish core information?

·       How to use graphic elements to exploit the possibilities of Mind Mapping?

·       The objectives of drawing Mind Maps with several colours

·       How to use symbols in Mind Maps?

·       How to develop your own Mind Mapping style?

·       When Mind Maps aren’t the right method?

·       How to apply Mind Maps to talks and lectures?

·       How to prepare a Mind Map lecture manuscript?

·       How to read Mind Maps?

·       How to convert text and sentences into a Mind Map form?

·       How to process whole books with Mind Mapping?

·       The benefits of Mind Mapping

·       The crucial rules for working effectively with Mind Maps

·       How note-taking with Mind Mapping in talks, lectures and meetings works?

·       The characteristics of talks, lectures and meetings

·       The advantages of colour and symbol codes in Mind Maps

·       How to use Mind Maps for informative conversations?

·       The ‘just write it out’ technique in Mind Mapping

·       The ‘in–out’ technique in Mind Mapping

COURSE DURATION:

The typical duration of this course is approximately 3-4 hours to complete. Your enrolment is Valid for 12 Months. Start anytime and study at your own pace.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

You must have access to a computer or any mobile device with Adobe Acrobat Reader (free PDF Viewer) installed, to complete this course.

COURSE DELIVERY:

Purchase and download course content.

ASSESSMENT:

A simple 10-question true or false quiz with Unlimited Submission Attempts.

CERTIFICATION:

Upon course completion, you will receive a customised digital “Certificate of Completion”.