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P ARTIAL EXAMPLE: LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENTThis partial example illustrates (without color!) what an original map would look like for agroup working on leadership development.Management supportStrategyMgmt Style Systems ThinkingPerformance mgmtRole of HR? rewardscompensationL eadership DevelopmentTrainingskills needed?COMPETENCIESCareer pathsSuccession PlanningH OW TO USE THIS LEADERSHIP TOOL“Mind mapping promotes free association of ideas and ‘pops’ new meanings for familiar concepts. It providespaths around our normal self-censoring and supports joint intuitive right-brain work within a group.”—Will McWhinney et al., CREATING PATHS OF CHANGEMind mapping is a versatile, helpful, and engaging tool to use in situations including these:✔✔✔✔✔✔✔✔✔finding new solutions to old problems;analyzing, organizing, and picturing new problems;reorganizing and revitalizing an old concern;when concerns are complex—many interrelated items;to help a group to think more systemically;focusing priorities on areas of most leverage;when a group needs a visual representation of much written information;when a group needs to be energized and unlock its creative side;to help plan action in the most effective area.Some pointers to make mind mapping work in a group:❑ Group size can vary from 1 (do it yourself) to 50.❑ Time needed can vary from 15 minutes to quickly map a situation, to long-term: anincremental map remains in a project team’s meeting space, with members encouragedto add items and interlinks as they are discovered.❑ If you use the incremental chart, at meetings, discuss what is emerging and rechart asneeded.194 SECTION 6 TOOLS FOR CRITICAL THINKING AND INNOVATION