Taking notes during a business meeting is important, but mind mapping the meeting is even better. The questions becomes how to do it, especially if you’re not allowed to bring a computer, or you don’t want to bring a computer. How do we do that then?
The true first step is to get the agenda of the meeting first. If you can do that, then what you do is create the central point and then use the points of the meeting as the second level. Print up that beginning mind map on a sheet of paper, and bring that into the meeting. Hand draw the relevant points coming from the points on the agenda.
Depending on the meeting type you mind map might just be notes about the meeting. In a brainstorming session your mind map takes on added significance, as you record the ideas in some sort of order. You can also attribute idea to people during the session if that is what is wanted.
Once you’ve created the mind map which is partially hand drawn you might want to put that mind map into some software. Using Freemind is the perfect tool in that you can save your map and other people can open it. with the same tool Remember that Freemind is indeed, and comes in all flavors of OSes.
Remember that as you go down the nodes that you are getting more and more specific. Each node should be a point expressible in just a few words. You can actually write whole sentences if you need. There are no rules to how to mind map. The trick is just to do it.
Now a word about sharing your mind maps. Mind maps are highly personal things. A mind map that if full of meaning for you can be tough to interpret for someone else. Unless all the participants in a meeting are there and collaborate in a mind map of the meeting, they may not be able to follow your map. They may lack the basic knowledge of what a mind map is. You can educate them.
So, get the agenda, make each point in the agenda a child node of the central point of the mind map, the branches are points related to the main node of that branch. Once the meeting is done transfer the hand drawn mind map to the mind mapping software. Now you can send the mind map to everyone else.
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