ASSIGNMENT

REFLECTION: MIND MAPPING

Challenge and Selection: The tool that I used is mind mapping. It is designed  to help businesses improve brainstorming sessions, as well as collaboration and  communication. Mind mapping is one of the best ways to capture your thoughts  and bring them to life in visual form. Beyond just note-taking, though, mind  maps can help you become more creative, remember more, and solve problems  more effectively. A mind map can be used by businesses to brainstorm thoughts  and ideas organically. By plotting ideas into a diagram it turns often complex,  monotonous information into an organized, colourful and memorable format.  Thus, this format helped me understand the organization I work for in a clear  way and thus by making a chart, having an overall discussion and jotting down  different criteria’s, it has helped me to draw attention to many different  perspectives that need attention and needs work to be done.

Application:  I used a pen and paper because I could get my thoughts out more  quickly and the act of drawing the branches out can aid recall. There are many  digital tools to choose from which the following features have: the ability to add  links and attachments, add notes, filter content.

After choosing my tool to work I used the following seven steps:

1] I started in the centre of a blank page because it gives freedom to spread out  in all directions and to express itself more freely and naturally.

2] I used an image to represent my central idea which was to focus on different  working aspects of my organisation

3] I used colour throughout the presentation this added great vibrancy to the  MAP.

4] I connected the main branch which is the main function of my organization to  the central image and then connected them to different departments of my  organization. Thus, this created a link between different departments

5] I used a one key word to describe what the department’s allocated job. Due to  this, the Map I made was concise and readable.

6] Instead of using sentences to describe an action I used images throughout.  This saved space and made my chart look even more interesting.

7] I highlighted the points which required some new changes and added post-it  papers to jot down points.

Insight and Approach: Mind mapping is a graphical tool which includes words,  images, numbers, and colour, so it can be more memorable and enjoyable to  create and review. The combination of words and pictures is better for  remembering information than words alone. Mind maps link and group  concepts together through natural associations thus helping to generate more  ideas, find deeper meaning to the subject. A mind map can at once give you an  overview of a large subject while also holding large amounts of information.  Thus MIND MAPPING proved to be a very intuitive way to organize thoughts by  generating ideas very quickly. Thus this technique encouraged and explore  different creative pathways which proved to be a great problem technique for  my organisation.

