This is a public thanks to the team at Gyronix for creating such a great MindManager add-in with their ResultsManager Vista product. I’ve been a user of ResultsManager for about two years and have made it a core tool in my implementation of David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology. I’ve even put it to use to manage a sales funnel by informing me when I need to get back in contact with someone.
This time around I used it to track all the processes required for finding a job and it worked perfectly, taking a load off my mind and significantly reducing the risk of forgetting to speak with someone or follow up a lead.
To do this I created a single mindmap which I ran straight into the Executive Dashboard without modification. In my source mindmap I had several main branches which helped me to separate recruitment firms, companies, friends and job applications from the paper. With each call that I made I updated the progress to track where I was in the commitment cycle. This meant ResultsManager would tell me who I hadn’t yet called, who I’d left messages with, who had promised to get back to me and which conversations were finished (an important step in demonstrating progress to myself). I was creating an action for each application from the paper and so ResultsManager would keep track of when each was sent should I need it later. Once mailed I would then create an action to remind me in a week or so to follow up if I hadn’t heard anything.
The whole system worked beautifully and took a large amount of stress out of a very stressful process. I cannot recommend the software enough.
