Ownership Suite - Mindmapping

Mindmapping: The Dropped Step Between Thoughts and Action

Mindmapping Podcast/Screencasts

It’s no exaggeration to say that you are on your own in the first steps of realizing your vision for your business and your life. Even with all of the support you can have, at the beginning of the process, before you can even articulate yourself, you must wrangle your intentions, inventory the elements, and have a clear, accurate picture of what the situation is, what you’d like it to be, and a plan for how to connect the two. For that, you must take your thoughts and turn them into lists, questions, meeting agendas, memos, and plans. For this, you should consider mindmapping.

Going through the process of visually representing the contents of your mind in the abstract space of a page requires many important cognitive operations that will allow you to thoroughly understand what you are trying to accomplish and what needs to be done.

Think of mindmaps as an auxiliary working memory. Many insights and connections that are only fleetingly visible inside your head will be obvious on paper. Sketch freely. They’re usually not meant to be shared, though they can be polished into graphics if desired and useful.

Use them to strategize meetings and negotiations, use them to analyze whether you’re deploying resources optimally, use them when you have a nagging feeling that you’re missing something.

No one can help you until you know what you need, and mindmaps are a tool that can help you get that clarity.

The examples shared here will give you an idea of how we’ve used them. We’ve used them for every serious decision we’ve made in the last 30 years, and many of our tools, such as ConflictBuster and RightFit, originated as mindmaps.

Get your hands and eyes around what you’re trying to understand. It’s much, much easier.