1st Presentation from our Project Management Class

1. Mind Mapping
Mind mapping is a highly effective
way of getting information in and
out of your brain. Mind mapping is a
creative and logical means of note-
taking and note-making that literally
"maps out" your ideas.
How to maximize your brain’s potential ?

2. Why Mind Map?
• Organize thoughts when brainstorming
• Effective method of taking notes
• Harnesses the full range of cortical
skills – word, image, number, logic,
rhythm, color and spatial awareness
• Aid creativity, memory, and specifically
the recall of information

4. The five essential characteristics
of Mind Mapping
 The main idea, subject or focus is crystallized
in a central image.
 The main themes radiate from the central
image as 'branches'.
 The branches comprise a key image or key
word drawn or printed on its associated line.
 Topics of lesser importance are represented
as 'twigs' of the relevant branch.
 The branches form a connected nodal
structure.

7. Mind Maps Use:
Lines
Symbols
Color
Images

8. 7 Steps
1. Start in the center of a blank page
turned sideways.
– Give your brain freedom to spread out in all
directions

9. 7 Steps
2. Use an image or picture for your main
idea.
– An image helps your imagination. It is more
interesting and keeps your focused helping you to
concentrate.

10. 7 Steps
3. Use colors throughout.
– Colors are as exciting to your Brain as are
images. Color will add energy to your creative
thinking.

11. 7 Steps
4. Connect your main branches to the
central image etc.
– Your brain works by association. It likes to link
two (or three, or four) things together.

12. 7 Steps
5. Make your branches curved instead of
straight lined.
– Having nothing but straight lines is boring to
your brain.

13. 7 Steps
6. Use one key word per line.
– Single words give your Mind Map more power
and flexibility.
Nest
Bird
Tree

14. 7 Steps
7. Use images throughout
– Each image, like the central image, is worth a
thousand words!

16. Brainstorming Words
Happiness

17. ?
How many words will be the same for
everyone?
How many will be common to all but one
member?
How many words will have been chosen by
only one person?

18. My Results
Happiness
Shopping
Friends
Spring

19. Let’s Compare!

20. Brainstorming Images

21. My House!

22. Verbal Mind Mapping
Happiness
Shopping
FriendsSpring

23. Mind Mapping
Shopping
FriendsSpring