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MindGenius allows you to plan more effectively, giving you a better chance of successfully delivering your task or project.

You will be able to work out the sequence of events required to complete a task or project before fully exploring the outcomes, expectations, constraints and dependencies.

You can then go on to work out priorities, and who needs to do what, before adding timelines, actions and resources to your map, with the option of exporting your actions to MS Outlook, or your entire plan to MS Project.

• quickly explore the subject and identify what you need to do to achieve your objectives so there are no surprises later
• apply different methodologies and question sets within MindGenius to gather your knowledge, experience and colleagues opinion to ensure a round view on the plan, helping you to minimise risk
• develop structure and depth to work out how the plan needs to be implemented
• ability to see the big picture as well as the detail
• identify who needs to do what and assign actions and timings within MindGenius
• export to MS Office packages such as Word, Excel, or Project and re-use the information gathered at any time

MindGenius helps you to think your project through thoroughly in a way that no other application allows for, if necessary helping you to apply methodologies to keep your project under control. It enables you to see the big picture, understand roles and responsibilities, organise the different project stages, estimate duration and costs and to prioritise actions and tasks, which all adds up to your projects being delivered on time and to budget.

• gather your thoughts quickly on what needs to be done and ensure you are identifying all aspects of your project.
• easily organise and prioritise to get clarity on what's required.
• break your project down into manageable chunks.
• estimate work required and allocate resources.
• assign actions and resources in MindGenius and easily gain visibility of where milestones and potential bottlenecks could occur.
• share with colleagues, either via a map or by exporting to MS Outlook or Project

Traditional tools force us to think about presentation formatting too early and this is usually at the expense of focusing on our content.

MindGenius transforms presentation preparation, allowing you to completely concentrate on ideas, and leave the formatting elements such as adding animation or graphics, until the presentation message is complete, giving you the chance to come up with a message that is more likely to hit the mark with attendees.

• Permanent brainstorming mode, allowing you to quickly explore and capture all of your initial thoughts.
• MindGenius helps you understand what you need to discuss, what the organisers or sponsors might be looking for and what constraints you have to work around.
• Visually restructure your ideas and pull them to their new location with the Drag and Drop feature.
• Add detailed content to the Notes Editor, which has word processing functionality.
• Fast one click export to MS PowerPoint, leaving you with a formatted PowerPoint presentation, ready for you to add further animation or graphics.
• Ability to present from MindGenius using the Map Explorer to navigate through your presentation and keywords to stimulate your memory.

Facilitating ideas capturing sessions can be difficult. MindGenius allows you to create a framework for your session, and easily capture ideas, and improve collaboration with your attendees. Your map acts as a mechanism to keep everyone involved and the visual impact of the map keeps the group focused. It eliminates the need for post session collation and allows you to share thinking with attendees or other colleagues.

• Quickly identify what needs to be discussed ahead of your meeting, structure the sequence of what needs addressed and work out the best flow for the session/ day.
• Add your own questions to and use the Questions Tool to create a framework.
• Capture discussion in real time, allowing for deviations to planned discussion where appropriate, in the knowledge that you have the capability to pull back to the "agenda" at any time.
• Identify, prioritize and assign actions/mini projects/projects to enable agreed objectives to be addressed and help achieve consensus.
• Follow up whenever required what has/ has not been achieved to date and from this take another look at objectives and priorities to enable you to manage through to conclusion.
• Share thinking with attendees and other colleagues either via a map or by exporting to MS Office packages.

Capturing ideas during a brainstorming session can be difficult. While the session may produce some great ideas, capturing them on sticky pads or sheets of paper, is messy and ineffective and it can be difficult for the facilitator to collage the information gathered.

This can mean the ideas are lost, the brainstorming session doesn't deliver what it promised and attendees feel frustrated that their time and effort appear wasted.

MindGenius allows you to work with your attendees to gather far more information, keep focus, stimulate participation and move forward.

You and your attendees will be able to achieve true collaboration on the information gathered, collate and group information, reach a common understanding and consensus during the session, meaning everyone plays a part in the analysis and solution.

It will leave attendees feeling positive, with a real sense of achievement and confident their ideas have been listened to.

• Quickly capture a higher quantity of ideas in the MindGenius application in a "live", re-usable format with no need to type up after the session has ended.
• Easily find your place, or elaborate on previous points at any time, giving the facilitator help in maintaining control and momentum.
• Jump backwards and forwards between ideas at ease, in order to generate debate and seek clarification.
• Flexibility to change the direction, structure, methodology or tactics to gain a clear understanding on the problem or opportunity you are working on.
• Group ideas and add categories to link information and to develop further understanding.
• Create an action and resource plan as a group, helping to gain buy in from your attendees and implement the action plan immediately.

Traditional Mind Mapping is an excellent technique for learning and summarising subjects. It enables easier memory recall and helps develop understanding, however, it can be frustrating when you need to recreate maps due to mistakes being made or running out of space on the page. In business, it can also be challenging to share your hand drawn ideas with colleagues.

MindGenius allows you to quickly create your maps in a re-usable format, get through more work in a shorter period of time and share your thinking and ideas with colleagues.

• No restrictions on the size of map you create.
• Capture all of your initial thoughts quickly with the ability to add additional ideas at any time.
• Visually restructure to apply hierarchy to your maps and show interdependencies and importance in a parent-child relationship which helps to develop understanding.
• Personalise your map by adding images, colors and boundaries.
• Sort and organise information to gain clarity on a situation and go on to allocate actions, or resources where appropriate.
• Share your thinking with others, either as an electronic map or by exporting to MS Office applications such as Project, PowerPoint or Word and Excel.

Managing our own workload can become increasingly difficult as we progress in our careers and other time and workload pressures multiply.

MindGenius allows you to achieve clarity on the overall picture of everything you are expected to be working on, identify bottlenecks and get a clear view of what needs to be done by you and by others.

You will have the ability to understand the different stages of a project or task and to prioritise actions and tasks, meaning you will know how to tackle the task at hand and keep on top of your workload.

• Capture your ideas and tasks quickly to keep a clear workload record.
• Understand the big picture and how different tasks are linked.
• Break tasks down into manageable chunks and focus on the detail when necessary.
• Add new tasks as they come up with no need to restart your list.
• Prioritise and see at a glance which tasks need to be tackled first.
• Assign timelines, actions and resources in MindGenius.
• Share with colleagues, either via a map or by exporting to MS Outlook, Project or Excel.

Utilise all of these steps to gain clarity and understanding of what you need to do.

Lack of understanding on the brief, or objective of a report, or too much time spent on formatting and the way a document looks, and not enough on content can lead to reports that are highly detailed but often tell you very little, or miss the point all together.

MindGenius gives you the freedom to focus on your content without worrying about report formatting.

• Quickly get your ideas out of your head and onto the screen with no distractions to your thought process.
• Easily gather disparate data from different sources into the one document.
• Break your report down into manageable chunks.
• Visually re-order and re-structure your report after you have worked out your key points.
• Add detailed body content to the Notes Editor which has word processing capability.
• Fast one-click export to MS Word, leaving you with a fully formatted Word document.

Capturing ideas during a SWOT Analysis session can be difficult. While the session may produce some great ideas, capturing them on sticky pads or sheets of paper is messy and ineffective and it can be difficult for the facilitator to collate the information gathered. It is also difficult to achieve consensus during the session due to an incomplete view on the data.

MindGenius allows you to work with your attendees to gather far more information, keep focus, stimulate participation and make sense of your information during your exercise, allowing you to use SWOT Analysis as an effective every day technique.

• Use SWOT templates and appropriate questioning within MindGenius to brainstorm your ideas and capture greater amounts of information in a re-usable format.
• Quickly categorise and re-order your ideas to enable elaboration on earlier points and a greater understanding on the information gathered.
• Stay on track with the MindGenius Map Explorer and manage disruptive tangents.
• Refine ideas, remove duplicates, in order to identify where you need to leverage your strengths, prioritise your opportunities, remove weaknesses and overcome threats.
• Work with your attendees to gain consensus on which information is relevant, linked and in context and sort your information during the exercise.
• Export information to MS Office packages to further develop your strategy, get actions started immediately or kick-start projects.

You and your attendees will be able to achieve true collaboration on the information gathered, collate and group information and reach a common understanding, and consensus during the session, meaning everyone plays a part in the analysis and solution.

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