I have gotten out of the habit making as many mind maps as I once did. It is probably because the amount of books that I now have on Kindle. My current tendency is to highlight and make electronic notes in the book itself. It has replaced the post-it-notes inside the books on my bookshelf. However, I recently was reading The Adaptive School: A Sourcebook for Developing Collaborative Groups that I not only littered in post-it-notes but had an outstanding chapter on communities that I could have just highlighted the whole chapter. Instead, I made the following mind map.
Download PDF: Communities Just Don’t Happen
I had first found the book as a result of researching work by Bill Baker on the Seven Norms of Collaboration. These are a set of tools to create productive communication:
- Pausing
- Paraphrasing
- Probing for Specificity
- Putting ideas on the table
- Paying attention to self and others
- Presuming positive intentions
- Pursuing a balance between advocacy and inquiry
My first thoughts about both of these items; “What a great set of sales tools!”
What are yours?