At Essential Mind Mapping we always receive great testimonials from clients on how much their life has improved since using Mind Mapping in work or personal use.
As you may know at Essential Mind Mapping we offer the Three leading Mind Mapping Software Products on the Market. (Based on features, ease of use and value for money).
We have a client base from around the Globe and I really enjoy reading our clients views on the Software’s and especially how they use Mind Mapping in their work and lives in boosting Productivity, Planning and General Visual Thinking
Whilst reading through some of the latest testimonials we received one that really struck out to me based on my own use of MindMapper was from David Page at the Otabas Group. David has kindly let me share this with you:
“I have made the best use of MindMapper in quasi brainstorming mode, either at planning sessions or, most recently, at the start of rescuing a
failing project -
There’s a short story I can tell you about that:
The project had fallen on the rocks for a range of reasons, lack of
engagement of stakeholders, turnover of senior management sponsors,
insufficient resources, the works.
By the time I got there, the project team were on their very last legs -
in 34 years of being in IT and 20 odd of that as a project manager,
I’ve never seen a team in such a poor state.
I literally had people bursting into tears in meetings because they were
under so much pressure.
So I sat each of them down and started to find out where the problems were
so that we could start prioritizing what to work on.
I rapidly discovered that there was a mess of interlinked problems and
pulling them apart was not going to be easy. Enter MindMapper.
I called a big half-day meeting. The team was grumpy at being pulled off
their work (the go-live date was 6 weeks off, and was immutable) and was
rolling their eyes at the suggestion that we could quickly find a solution
after they had been embroiled in the delivery phase for over 12 months.
Their eyes positively spun backwards in their head as I pulled out the laptop
and fired up MindMapper.
They very quickly discovered, however, that I was completely able to put their thoughts onto the map as fast as they could spit them out. Moreover, by doing that, they realized there were even more aspects to their problem
(in the minds of individuals) than they had realized as a group.
Within about an hour they had pretty well exhausted pouring out their woes, so we started an hour of categorizing their issues – again, MindMapper was wonderful as a support tool for that as I could drag branches around the map until they made sense.
The final hour was to prioritize the work on the map and reorganizing who was working on what. I then took the lot of them to lunch.
Every man (and woman) Jack of them commented on how effective the session had been, and how impressed they were by the tool.
It was the start of my turning the tide on the project and the development of the necessary respect for my abilities as a project manager in the minds of the team that was vital in order to be able to step into the project rapidly and take up the leadership role it so badly needed
David Page The OTOBAS Group Pty Ltd
http://www.otobas.com/
After Reading David’s testimonial in brought back to me the simplicity of using Mind Mapping in everything you do. In David’s case it revived a dead in the water project and ensured he was recognized as a savior to the project.
Thanks David for letting me share this with others!.
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Until Next Time…Take Care & Happy Mapping!.
Paul Urban, CEO
Mind Mapping For Success
Web: www.EssentialMindMapping.com
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