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Illumine, the practical thinking training specialist, has turned its highly successful and acclaimed webinar on Mind Mapping into an equally successful e-learning programme. Illumine – the world’s leading provider of Mind Mapping training for business – has developed a nine module e-learning programme which provides an introduction to Mind Mapping. Illumine was prompted to produce [...]

Information overwhelm is a growing problem. People are struggling to cope with all the information that’s overloading them today, making mistakes, forgetting things and losing sight of what’s important. Information overwhelm is when the quantity of information we receive exceeds our capacity to deal effectively with it. This situation arises most obviously when people are trying [...]

A brilliant memory can transform your impact at work and further your career. Here Clive Lewis, MD of Illumine Training explains how. Most people are hugely impressed by those who have the ability to recall events, statistics or detailed information at just the right moment. People who can accurately recite a quote or who, when [...]

In this article, Vanda North introduces Mind Chi – an 8 minute a day program that can give you the reins of self control, allowing you to overcome problem areas or achieve goals for greater overall success and fulfilment in business and life. Your Mind Chi Basic 8 minute program takes 28 days to create [...]

In a previous article we used Mind Chi to create a Plan for ‘Achieving your Perfect Size’ (go to that article).  In this article, Vanda North provides a complete 28 day execution to ensure you reach your goal. We’ve adapted the following from the book ‘Mind Chi – rewire your brain in 8 minutes a day’ You need to [...]

Firstly get control of the ‘task’ – a rapid browse of the whole paper to see what is in it helps enormously. The browse should be no more than 2 seconds per page – looking for stories of interest, understanding how much space is devoted to main stories. You are simply trying to understand what [...]