Illumine was prompted to produce the eLearning programme after its 'Mind Mapping Mastery Webinar' won a 'High Impact Badge of Honour' at Global Enterprise Week, held at the end of November last year. During the event, organisations in over eighty countries ran thousands of events to inspire people to embrace innovation, imagination, and creativity.

"'High Impact Badge of Honour' events are those that have a positive and lasting impact on the people who attend", explains Richard Evans, marketing manager at Illumine. "At last year's event, only 240 out of 4,800 events received this special status."

The content for the eLearning course was written - and is presented - by Clive Lewis, the Master Mind Mapper, who has been using Mind Maps in a wide-ranging and successful business career for over thirty years. He and his team at Illumine Training have taught tens of thousands of people how to Mind Map in courses, workshops, and seminars around the world.

"Today's work environment demands that we all save time, improve efficiency, and be more creative in our thinking", observes Lewis. "As a result, more and more people are turning to Mind Mapping as an essential business tool to add to their intellectual armory."

The Mind Mapping course takes Tony Buzan's widely recognised technique for effective thinking and learning, and shows how to apply and benefit from it in the business environment. It helps learners to think more creatively and incisively, plan more effectively, improve memory, and increase effectiveness at work.

The programme (priced at £29.99 + VAT) includes over sixty minutes of videos, explanations, and exercises that take users step by step towards a robust Mind Mapping technique - whatever their level of experience. It offers nine structured modules, one month of unlimited access to the entire programme, advice on how to continue developing Mind Mapping skill and confidence after the programme, free downloads, and on request, a CPD-compliant certificate on completion of the course (giving 1.5 hours CPD).

"We believe that this is the first time that Mind Mapping experience and expertise have been distilled into a flexible online learning programme", Evans comments. "In the course, we place an emphasis on users being 'active learners' - seeing, hearing, experiencing and discovering about Mind Mapping for themselves."