Idea Mapping

Meet James White. He uses Idea Mapping to amplify self-help reading. I’ll let him tell you the rest: “I’m a fan of self-help books but I often come across the problem that I can’t remember everything I read. To solve this problem, I started creating mind maps to outline important quotes, key pages that I […]

I recently did an Idea Mapping webinar for nearly 1,000 members of the Global PMI Communities of Practice. I took them through an activity that demonstrates the associative nature of our thinking and how an Idea Map is created based on our associations. John Pestotnik was one of those participating in the webinar. He developed a […]

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On Tuesday June 17, 2014 I delivered an Idea Mapping Webinar to 950 members of the Global PMI Community. Around 67% of those in attendance were new to Idea Mapping or were somewhat familiar, but hadn’t found a use for it yet. At the end of the webinar I challenged the participants to create a […]

These idea maps are the fourth set from instructor Scott Letwin’s students (Zimmer & Blum) who completed their first semester of an Electrical Apprenticeship at Red Deer College in Alberta, Canada in December 2013. Zimmer’s idea map was on the topic of Current, Voltage & Resistance and Blum’s idea map was about EMF (Electromagnetic Fields). For more examples from […]

This Idea Map is my template for creating my “To Do” list in a mind mapping format. I used Mindjet’s MindManager and added images to enhance my recall. When my mind gets overwhelmed with everything I need to get done I find it very helpful to dump my brain into this map. As new “To […]

Meet Lindsey Cranfield. Lindsey teaches 9-11 year old pupils at Holy Trinity Primary School in West Sussex, UK. I was introduced to Lindsey after teaching a 1-day Idea Mapping Workshop for PRA International’s Annual Leadership Retreat in Orlando, FL in May 2013. One of the PRA executives from England returned home after the event to discover […]

I created this idea map for the upcoming Biggerplate Conference on March 20, 2014 in San Francisco. I wanted to show a larger picture, so double-click on the image to clear up the distortion. Each branch on this visual agenda represents a speaker, break or other event session. For each speaker there is a link to […]

These idea maps are the third set from instructor Scott Letwin’s students (Wagoner & Blum) who just completed their first semester of an Electrical Apprenticeship at Red Deer College in Alberta, Canada. Wagoner’s idea map was on the topic of Switching Circuits and Blum’s idea map was about Orthographic Projection & Diagrams. I first introduced Scott […]

I recently read Lisa Arthur’s Big Data Marketing Book. This idea map summarizes my takeaways from her book which revealed some areas of my business that need to be addressed. Highly recommend this book.