Mind Mapping
Are you battling against a barrage of information every day? n Do you find it difficult to absorb, process and use information effectively? n Is it impossible to recall most things that you read? n Does the thought of business planning or planning a report fill you with dread? n Are you finding it hard to develop your creative skills?
If any of these problems ring true, you are not alone. Increasing numbers of people are reporting stress brought about by the nature of work and study in the age of computers.
The result for the overloaded worker is a feeling of immense stress as any sense of control slips out of their grasp.
Mind Mapping is a valuable solution for anyone who would like to learn faster and think more creatively. This simple technique has enabled users to record, analyse and recall large volumes of information and to see clearly how different pieces of data relate to each other.
Although you can develop the skills of Mind Mapping from a book, it’s much easier to learn from an expert trainer. Jane Smith has more than 12 years’ experience of using Mind Maps and teaching others how to do so. Her knowledge and enthusiasm have inspired hundreds of others, and revitalised their whole approach to thinking and note-taking.
To learn how to create Mind Maps like this one, email Nick Smith for a link to download our e-book 'Mind Mapping for Success'.
Word Smiths Mind Mapping workshops are for anyone who would like to learn faster and think more creatively. Participants say that Mind Mapping has revitalised their whole approach to thinking and note-taking. This simple technique has enabled them to record and analyse large volumes of information and to see clearly how different pieces of data relate to each other.
Four ways to develop your skills with Word Smiths
Jane
Smith is a trainer and writer with many year's experience of writing and delivering
Mind Mapping (and other related) courses and publications.
Word Smiths offer four ways in which Jane can help you develop your mind mapping skills:
- By booking onto one of our popular and cost-effective one-day open
public courses.
Read
more about and/or book Word Smiths open courses.
View/download
pdf course brochure (300 KB). - By organising a full-day or a half-day in-house course at
your own premises - the best option for groups of four or more colleagues
or friends.
Read
more about and/or book Word Smiths in-company courses.
View/download
pdf course brochure (310 KB). 
By
working through our audio book package Memory and Learning for
Success -
an efficient and economical option for people who prefer a self-study approach.
Read
about and/or buy Memory and Learning for Success.
View/download
pdf brochure (880 KB).- By arranging a full or half day one-to-one coaching session - click here to tell us your requirements.
Content
Our courses, coaching sessions and the Memory and Learning for Success audio book are all highly interactive. In each of these delivery methods, we show you to improve your memory and how to use Mind Maps for thinking and note-taking. By the end of the course you will be able to: achieve a better understanding of how the mind works; identify the benefits of Mind Maps; use Mind Mapping to plan more efficiently; think more flexibly and creatively.
What people say about Mind Mapping from Word Smiths
- "A useful
technique for coping with the complexities of my work."
John Jones, civil servant - "Very well paced and packed with information."
Sue Ware, nurse tutor - "Thank you for running the session, which was very
well received."
Joe Austin, staff development manager
Mind Maps in a Week
This
one-day course is based on ideas and techniques described in Jane Smith's
successful book Mind Maps in a Week, which
was first published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1998 and republished in
2002 (ISBN 0340849525, available
from Amazon).
"I found 'Mind Maps in a Week' easy to read. It's an excellent source of hints and tips on how to create brilliant Mind Maps" says Peter Mayes of TrainerBase. Happy Child (a global site which links children across the world) is also enthusiastic: "I like this book very much - and I am only sorry that I did not write it first because this is how I would want my book to be. Buy it, even if you have Tony Buzan's Use Your Head or The Mind Map Book."
To view/download a pdf of an article on mind mapping written by Jane Smith for Spectrum (Royal Mail's in-house training magazine), click/right click here.
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