Personal map
What ?
When you communicate with many people, it can be difficult to remember every little detail. A way to deal with this amount of information is to build mind maps about personal facts to remember details quickly.
A mind-map is a visual and structured representation of information.
In Management 3.0, this kind of mind map is called a Personal Map.
Why ?
People should get closer to the work of others in order to better understand what is going on.
They can do this by :
- Moving their feet
- Moving their desk
- Moving their microphone
Decreasing the distance of yourself to others helps to increase communication and creativity.
A great exercise for a better understanding of people is to capture what you know about them in personal maps.
How ?
By creating a personal map of a colleague, you make an effort to better understand that person.
In your team, explain the exercise as follows:
- Explain the purpose and how to create a personal map
- Use a template - like defined below
- Allow a time-slot - 10 minutes for example
- Instruct to write clearly and briefly
- Put all the personal maps on the wall
- Let each person take a personal map (but not his own!)
- Each person introduce the selected map to the others
- Continue until each personal map has been presented
Keep in mind that these personal maps are not a one-time exercise, these evolve as life continues!
