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In this video, you will discover new ways to make your message heard loud and clear. It will show you how to stay on topic and never get lost in your notes. You will be able to fully get to grips with the techniques for building and holding rapport with your audience and keeping them focused on the presentation, in a way that they will understand and remember.

In the last talk on presentation preparation, we talked about the presentation templates built in to NovaMind and also the 4-Mat system of presenting information in the order: Why, What, How, and What If.

We were talking about the overall structure of the presentation, and didn’t get into the fine details of delivery and wording, but along with the personality types that are being spoken to with the 4-mat system, there are four basic learning styles, and when you use the actual words that these people understand and resonate with, they will be able to see what you are getting at.

Those main learning styles are: Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, and Auditory digital.

For the visual people, you should use words like: appear, clear, crystal, envision, focus, hazy, imagine, look, picture, reveal, see, show, view, and watch.

For the auditory people, you should use words like: all ears, harmonize, hear, heard, listen, question, resonate, rings a bell, silence, sounds, tune in/out.

For the kinesthetic people, you should use words like: catch on, feel, grasp, get a handle on, hard, harsh, sense, sensitive, solid, tap into, throw out, touch, turn around.

For the auditory digital people, you should use words like: change, chart progress, conceive, consider, criteria, decide, experience, know, learn, makes sense, motivate, perceive, plan, process, think, understand.

Using Mind Maps for your presentations makes your life really easy as a presenter, because your entire presentation is right there in front of you the whole time in a very compact form. You always have the topic at the center of the mind map, and the main points as the first level branches, so you never get lost, and always stay on topic.

It makes it easy to establish stronger eye contact and rapport with your audience because you don’t have to remember where you are up to on a huge page of written notes or shuffle your way through cue cards. Instead you have a diagram that resonates with your visual-spacial memory, so you can immediately see on the Mind Map where you are up to, and how that relates to what you have just said and what you are going to cover in the rest of your presentation.

The keywords on the branches keep you on topic without tying you to a particular way of expressing it, so you can open up and use your natural language instead of sounding as if you have read it out, as you would if you had read from traditional notes.

Because you can see at a glance how much information there is left to cover in the presentation, you can pace yourself and always finish on time without rushing, even if you do allow audience participation during the presentation.

From the audience’s point of view, they get a clearly structured presentation where they can see how it all fits together. The presentation is logical and flows so they can understand it and fit it in with their existing knowledge. They feel that you are talking directly to them because you are triggering their interest through the 4-mat structure and the learning style keywords.

Best of all, you can also print the mind map out without text on the branches and hand these maps out to your audience. They can fill in the text on the mind map during your presentation as you reveal it to them. This has a multitude of advantages for their attention and absorption of the information because they see it (great for the visual people), they hear it (auditory), they get to write it down (kinesthetic), they get to think about it and put it into their own words and extend the ideas (auditory digital). So all the learning styles are fully catered for in one place.

This is a very powerful presentation system.

So how exactly do you give a presentation from a Mind Map?

Start by stating the topic - the mind map’s title. Then go around to the innermost branches to give an introduction and tell people what to expect from the presentation.

Next, for each of the innermost branches, go through all its sub-branches to give the details for that topic.

Finally to wrap up your presentation, go around the innermost branches again and let that be your summary.

Normally you would give the presentation using the NovaMind presenter so that you can project it onto a screen and progressively reveal the branches, showing the first level branches for your introduction first, then go through the rest of your presentation delving into the detail as you go.

But if you don’t have those facilities available, you can:
* Export to PowerPoint or Keynote using the built-in mind map export tools,
* Print out the mind map to use as your notes,
* Set up the mind map on your laptop for you to see,
* Print your mind map out as a poster

The video covers these points in a bit more detail, as well as providing a number of tips which will really help you get the best result from your presentation, so watch the video now to get the full information.

 

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There is now a video tutorial now available to help you get up to speed with the NovaMind screenwriting capabilities. NovaMind helps screenwriters by allowing you to visualize the screenplay both from a visual storyboarding perspective on the Mind Map, but also use the built in screenwriter, in a combination we call ScriptMappingâ„¢.

Find out more by watching the video below:

 

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This video explains what is in each of the different editions of NovaMind Mind Mapping software: Express, Pro and Platinum, and helps you choose which one is the right one for your mind mapping needs.

 

For a complete feature comparison, please see the NovaMind features page.

 

 

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NovaMind is pleased to announce the first of a new series of tutorial videos on NovaMind for Mac. This first video shows you all the basics of creating your first mind map in NovaMind.

 

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NovaMind is pleased to announce the first of a new series of tutorial videos on NovaMind for Windows. This first video shows you all the basics of creating your first mind map in NovaMind.

 

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There are a number of key factors in learning how to mind map, like:

• Using just just key words rather than long sentences.
• Using images wherever possible to make your mind maps colorful.
• Start in the center with a clear title and where possible a strong visual image that shows the general theme of the map.
• Use color and boundaries to group branches, and colors to depict themes and make things stand out.
• Make ideas stand out using color, humor, images, fonts etc - it will then stand out in your mind.
• Use link lines (with arrows where required) to show secondary links between different elements.
• If you run out of ideas in one place, just move on to another area of the mind map.
• Record ideas as you think of them, wherever they fit. Don’t judge or hold back.
• Get emotionally involved. Have fun. You remember more when you are having fun.

These are just a few of the important factors to consider when making your mind maps.

I have written a full article about How to Mind Map which gives you everything you need to know to be successful with your mind mapping.

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Mind Mapping can be used for a very wide variety of purposes within your business. I have just created a squidoo lens showing how you can use Mind Maps to make planning business continuity and disaster recovery processes easier, and more easily understood.

Very often business continuity planning and disaster recovery planning is forgotten in the hectic world of running a business, but unless these plans are in place, your business could be out of action for an extended period of time. Many people balk at the thought of the amount of time they believe it is going to take to get the planning done, as well as the complexity of the plans that have to be created and then explained to everyone involved.

Luckily with Mind Mapping, the process is much simplified, because you start with what really makes the business tick, so you can see what is important to protect and maintain. You then break this down into a straightforward steps for risk / threat identification, risk mitigation, and response planning. Everyone can easily see what needs to be done, why, and where they fit in to the process.

Just hop over to http://www.squidoo.com/business-continuity to get the full story.

This is part 2 of a 3 part video series which goes into detail on the 5 key factors of business growth and teaches you how to Mind Map each of the different drivers of growth.

You will learn quick and easy techniques for implementing these strategies in your business.

The presentation is given by Gideon King, Mind Mapping expert, author of two books on Mind Mapping, and founder of NovaMind Software, using the NovaMind presenter…

In this second video, Gideon presents detailed information on the second and third key factors in growing your business using Mind Mapping:

• Conversion ratio
• Average dollar sale

Using Mind Mapping, you can create similar Mind Maps to represent the opportunities for your business.

As you create your Mind Map, you can brainstorm ideas and add them to any part of the Mind Map, building a picture of the possibilities and how they relate to each other.

Here is video 2:

 

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This is part 1 of a 3 part video series which goes into detail on the 5 key factors of business growth and teaches you how to Mind Map each of the different drivers of growth.

You will learn quick and easy techniques for implementing these strategies in your business.

The presentation is given by Gideon King, Mind Mapping expert, author of two books on Mind Mapping, and founder of NovaMind Software, using the NovaMind presenter…

In this first video, Gideon introduces the five key factors of business growth:

1. Number of leads
2. Conversion ratio
3. Average dollar sale
4. Number of transactions
5. Profit margin

He then uses a Mind Map to present a wide variety of ways you can increase the number of leads you market to in your business. Using Mind Mapping, you can create similar Mind Maps to represent the opportunities for your business.

As you create your Mind Map, you can brainstorm ideas and add them to any part of the Mind Map, building a picture of the possibilities and how they relate to each other.

Here is video 1:

 

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