Communicate Strategically with Mind Mapping

As a visual tool, mind mapping helps you have a better understanding of different concepts, processes, projects as well as data.  When collaborating with others, it’s very useful and efficient to use mind mapping as a communication tool.  Some of the best ways in which you can use mind mapping to communicate strategically are:

• Defining a concept

Any concept that is associated with an image has a higher chance of being better remembered and understood. For this reason, icons, symbols and images have an essential role in visually representing specific concepts.  The same is happening when defining a concept through mind mapping:

• Explaining a process

Processes usually have very strict rules that have to be followed in order to have successful results.  When they are visually represented on a mind map, complex processes are simplified and make more sense, mainly because they are presented into fragments of information not overwhelming text paragraphs.

• Presenting an action plan

An action plan that is broken down into several steps is more likely to be understood by your team members.  For example, if you’re planning a product launch you want to make sure the main points are presented clearly and briefly:

• Portraying data

If you want to present data in a more friendly way, you can choose a map layout, which will allow you to keep your data organized into different topics and add all necessary details to them, as seen below:

Mind mapping can be used in many different ways as a communication tool.  Depending on the content that is delivered you have many options when it comes to choosing the right layout.  This is why, working with a mind mapping tool makes things easier, since different layouts are already made available for you to properly present your information.

How do you use mind mapping when communicating with others?