January 2020

Happy new year to our MindManager community!

Both personally and professionally, we often use the new year as a prompt for setting out our vision and goals. Whether you’re still developing your 2020 plans or you’ve already set them in motion, there’s no doubt that this time of year can be both invigorating and intense.

A typical work day in January can include everything from strategic planning and brainstorming sessions to project kick-offs and budget debates. Plus, there’s often the need to recruit and onboard new hires. It’s with this in mind that we’ve compiled useful resources that can help spark inspiration and save you time.

10 Brainstorming Techniques to Try with Your Team

If you work as part of a team, you’ve likely been a part of a brainstorming session at some point. It’s a common process that many businesses use to generate new ideas and come up with solutions to problems. More often than not, “brainstorming” is used as a catch-all term for any activity that helps teams gather new ideas.

But did you know that there are many different brainstorming techniques that you can use depending on your team structure, goals, and even the personality of your participants?

This article will explain some of these common brainstorming techniques and walk you through a sample brainstorming process you can use to execute your session.

How Visualization Builds Better Strategic Plans

Research has shown that the human brain is hardwired to plan, learn and create through visualization. In this eBook, you’ll learn about the business benefits of visualization, including five proven and powerful visualization tools for strategic planning.

Whether you’re planning your team’s objectives for the year or working through an important business decision, you’ll want to read this eBook to:

Learn how visualization builds a better plan

Find 5 proven and powerful visualization methods

Download a MindManager template for each method

Download the eBook

How to Apply Agile Practices to Talent Acquisition

It would seem that agile has gone mainstream. But if you thought it was only for young start-up companies, think again!

While agile was initially designed to improve the efficiency of software development teams, it has become a default team-based operational model for organizations of all sizes and from all industries. In an agile organization, all teams adopt this progressive and customer-focused way of working, and that includes human resources and recruiting.

Whether you’re a recruiter or just interested in learning how agile practices can be applied to other disciplines, you won’t want to miss this webinar. It will be a full 45-minutes, where you’ll learn:

Common hiring challenges that agile helps resolve (or at least lessen!)

7 steps to adopting an agile recruitment process

How to map out a candidate journey and ensure a positive candidate experience

Watch the Webinar

Experience MindManager Live!

MindManager is coming to a city near you in 2020. Come and join us at the following events to learn how visualization and mind mapping can help your business, get a free demo with one of our product experts, and receive personalized advice on how to best use MindManager.

Microsoft Ignite The Tour in Copenhagen, Denmark on February 27-28, 2020

Digitaler Staat in Berlin, Germany on March 3-4, 2020

Microsoft Ignite The Tour in Amsterdam, Netherlands on March 11-12, 2020

Dustin Expo in Stockholm, Sweden on March 19-20, 2020

Project Challenge in London, United Kingdom on March 24, 2020

Werkstätten:Messe in Nuremberg, Germany on April 1-4, 2020

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