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Parallel Process - Is mind mapping a serious business tool? Anthony Landale reports on a technique that is easy to use across a range of business requirements, challenges and tasks.

If you are one of those people who still takes notes in meetings, or you use notes as an aide memoir for training, for course revision or [...]

Mind Mapping is a tool that trainers and delegates should be using on all courses.  Here Clive Lewis, MD of Illumine Training, and Tony Buzan’s preferred partner in corporate and public sector training explains why.
How good are trainers at getting their message across? And how good are participants at capturing the learning that is [...]

Accelerated learning (AL) provides executives with a range of rapid response tools. Here Clive Lewis outlines what these are and why they are so important.
So you are familiar with accelerated learning (AL). Good for you. But take note; if you are a trainer or a training manager the issue isn’t about how AL can help [...]

Clive Lewis, MD of Illumine, argues that managers start applying AL techniques to the everyday challenges they face.
Accelerated Learning (AL) is a must for managers. Why? Because of information overload. For our personal and business lives we simply have to find smarter ways to sort, absorb and handle the increasing quantity of information that comes [...]

There is a lot of discussion about the need for all organisations to equip managers and staff at all levels to be able to continue to learn and develop throughout their careers and lives. Here Clive Lewis, Director of the training and consultancy company, Illumine Limited, which specialises in learning, thinking and creativity, explains why [...]

Hallmark Cards is the UK’s leading greeting card company producing some of the most innovative ranges on the market. So how come its people need training in creativity?  Anthony Landale takes a look.
Did you know that Britain is the ‘greetings card’ centre of the world? In total we send an astonishing 2.2 billion cards every [...]

Mind Mapping is increasingly used by trainers, leaders and managers to brainstorm, problem solve and manage their projects. Here Clive Lewis, MD of Illumine Training, looks at why it has caught on.
You may have heard of Mind Mapping, you may even have some idea of how to draw them but do you use Mind Maps® [...]

Mind Mapping is a tool that all trainers should be using? Here Clive Lewis, MD of Illumine Training, and Tony Buzan’s sole partner in corporate and public sector training explains why.
More than anything else trainers are communicators. But are you good at getting your message across? If you want to become a master communicator then [...]

Are you a master of information?… or one of the increasing number of busy people who find it difficult to cope with the volume of information with which you are bombarded? Do you find time for thinking?… or are you sometimes just too busy?
At Holmes the management team was recently introduced to a technique which [...]

Many financial professionals have real problems when trying to get their message across clearly and concisely to colleagues and clients. So how can they transform their ability to communicate? Clive Lewis, a speaker at this year’s ACCA conference, explains that it’s all about understanding brain power.
As accountants and financiers we face a pressing challenge… we [...]

Illumine Ltd, the Windsor-based training consultancy, is conducting an online survey into Mind Mapping, the advanced thinking and learning technique developed by Tony Buzan. The company’s survey asks users their opinions of Mind Mapping. Its preliminary results indicate that the technique is a highly valued tool that can bring order out of chaos and can open up [...]