Idea Mapping

Jennifer Weaver is a member of the 2011 – 2012 Saline Leadership Institute (SLI) class where I teach an Idea Mapping session every year since its inception in 1998.  I recently had an email from her where she shared this Idea Map. She said, “I have found multiple opportunities to put some of the skills […]

During my recent visit to Palm Beach to visit Vanda North (author of Mind Chi), I noticed this idea map on her refrigerator. It was her plans for preparing Thanksgiving dinner. I snapped a photo and thought the readers of this blog would be interested as we still have the Christmas and New Years celebrations […]

On October 13, 2011 I blogged about one of my favorite maps created by David Hill with assistance from Lisa Frigand — both from Con Edison in New York. This map greatly assisted in rebuilding Manhattan after 9/11. The power of this map is that it shows something very complex in a way that makes […]

I’ve posted this before, but these are still fun idea maps for the upcoming Thanksgiving Holiday. Tammy Sookthis has participated in both the 2-day Idea Mapping Workshop and the 1-day Memory/Speed Reading Workshop offered through ACH (subsidiary of Ford). She sent me this series of idea maps which she created to get organized for her […]

I’ve featured a few idea maps in this blog that are resumes. The first one was Carl Giosa’s and this one is his son’s — Eric Giosa. In a competitive job market you need your resume to stand out over others vying for the same position.  I assure you that using an idea map will […]

Jim Lauria is the V.P. of Marketing and Business Development for Amiad Filtration Systems. I introduced him back in April 2011 when he shared one of his Idea Maps on Futures Trends of Urban Water Treatment. This free 30-minute webinar follows this same topic in a bit more detail and focuses on how Jim develops […]

If you have been a frequent visitor to this blog, you know that I have been following Dr. Tim Schweizer and his management students since October 2009 — shortly after he attended one of my Idea Mapping Workshops. I shouldn’t even call it an experiment anymore because Tim has developed a solid process to successfully […]

This is one of my absolute favorite Idea Maps or Mind Maps I’ve ever seen … a needed tool at an incredibly critical moment in time. An avid user of MindManager David Hill of Con Edison writes:  “A few months after 9/11 I was having coffee with my friend Lisa Frigand of Con Edison’s Economic […]

If you have been a frequent visitor to this blog, you know that I have been following Dr. Tim Schweizer and his management students since October 2009 — shortly after he attended one of my Idea Mapping Workshops. His success in teaching Idea Mapping to his students has resulted in a published research paper, a […]

The very first posting about this experiment with Luther College students was on October 23, 2009. (You can get some background there.) Dr. Tim Schweizer (who took my Idea Mapping workshop in August 2009) led the experiment.  Every semester since then Tim has taught Idea Mapping to his Principles of Management students at the beginning of each semester. Each […]