Inspiration for the workplace: ensuring best practice and consistency

Heather was introduced to Inspiration by colleagues when she started 10 months ago. “It’s really intuitive to use and you can quickly and easily get up and running with it and start producing maps and outlines”. She has now created many mind maps and process maps using Inspiration, which have helped with:

• team communication
• demonstrating and streamlining work processes
• acknowledging and solving discrepancies
• guiding the team through their different workloads and various tasks
• creating process documents using Outline View

Inspiration helps with visualizing the big picture: “I’m a do-it-in-pictures kind of person! So, I do find the visualization really useful, and I like being able to add extra bits as and when I think of things.” Heather mainly creates text-based diagrams and maps, with branches showing relationships between processes and tasks.

Heather discussed using Inspiration to capture and collate notes and information to share with colleagues. The digital format is more effective and easily changeable than the previously used post-it notes, especially with an increase in hybrid working.

There is a Management in Practice training programme at the college where Heather demonstrates the benefits of Inspiration for management: "I think Inspiration is great; I have been telling everyone who will listen! Dare I say it’s a simple but effective bit of software! It does just what it needs to do."