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If any of you read Dumb Little Man , a popular productivity blog, you might have read my guest blog entry on Wednesday entitled " 5 Steps to Planning an Effective Presentation ." One of the points that I touched on in that article was how mind maps are a simple, yet effective tool for planning presentations...
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Ideas make money, and thus we should make time for ideas . As valuable as brainstorming is, most of us don’t have the luxury of spending hour after hour sitting in meetings scrawling ideas down on scratchpads and whiteboards. Although we should always be in a creative, big-picture mindset on our own...
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We all know that as a manager you are strapped with a finite amount of time to perform so many activities in a day, week, or month. In this unstable economy most managers are doubling their efforts due to a shrinking team and limited resources. As costly as it may seem, you as the manager need to make...
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Automatically Style Mind Maps A mind map is a powerful tool for developing and organizing ideas, and using color to differentiate topic levels makes your mind map easy to read and understand. But having to mess around with formatting can derail your train of thought and bring your brainstorming session...
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Export a Mind Map to a Text Outline A mind map is a powerful tool for developing and organizing ideas. But once you’re finished brainstorming, it’s often useful to have a plain text outline—an indented organized list—of all the elements in your chart. With SmartDraw you can do...
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Automatically Build a Project Chart from a Mind Map Turning a great idea into a successful project takes careful planning. Brainstorming your project with a mind map and then planning and managing its execution with a project chart is a great way to get it done. SmartDraw makes it possible to use the...
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I am new to this. I create a mind map and when I move a topic its link is borken. Dragging the topic to where I want it linked sometimes links and sometimes does not. When it links - if I move it to make more space - it's disconnected again :{ Am I missing something or can I not place things where...
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This post is authored by a fellow SmartDraw employee, Oscar Gonzalez-Millan. During the day, I work full-time for SmartDraw.com as a member of the sales team. But at night, I work on pursuing my degree in law. The other day I was studying for my Civil Procedure midterm for law school and was having a...
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The first step to becoming a more efficient project manager is to decompose your project into small tasks using mind maps , an issue which we discussed last week. Today we’re going to address the second step in the process, which is setting the schedule for all tasks and deliverables using project...
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Many projects are delivered late —one of the key reasons being that the tasks assigned to team members are too broad or vague. You might be asking yourself “what’s wrong with broad tasks?” As I answered in my most recent post, it’s very difficult to accurately determine...