Your topic is Professional Selling, it should be the topic in the middle of your mind map.

Introduction: Mind mapping is a creative method to map out your ideas. It begins with one common concept and branches out into other concepts while still relating to the common concept. Mind maps are useful for creative thinking and brainstorming and can also be used to check your knowledge. Through the process of mind mapping it can transform a long list of ideas into an organized diagram, it can help you understand and remember key concepts and assist with connecting concepts together. Mind maps typically start in the center of a page and extend outward to the edge of the page with diagrams, explanations and key terms, arrows, etc.

How to Draw a Mind Map:

1. Start in the middle of a blank page, writing, drawing the main topic, Professional Selling.
2. Develop the related subtopics around this central topic, connecting each of them to the centre with a line, arrow, etc
3. Repeat the same process for the subtopics and extend them with other subtopics and continuing to create connections (like branches).

Some other helpful hints:

• Do not be afraid to use colours, pictures printed from the internet that relate or from newspapers and other media
• Keep the topic labels short and brief, it should just be a keyword that can expand to subtopics
• Vary text size, colour and alignment
• You dont have to be an artist, have fun with the assignment

Assignment Instructions:

1. Using 8-10 terms/ concepts associated with professional selling create a mind map (using words, visuals, arrows, diagrams, etc). It can be done with paper or online.
2. On a separate word document:

1. Define the key terms/ concepts used in your mind map by referring to lecture material or online sources, you MUST cite your sources.
2. Define the key terms/ concepts in your own words or by providing an example of the term or concept.