Personal Map – Management 3.0

This article is part of a series focused on Management 3.0 and introduces the concept of the Personal Map, a tool used to succinctly describe individuals. The aim is to gain deeper insights into team members and foster better understanding and collaboration.

Materials for Creating a Personal Map

Steps to Create a Personal Map

The process of creating a Personal Map involves the following steps:

Participants write their name (or draw a self-portrait) in the center of the sheet. They surround their name with key pillars of their life, written in capital letters. Members then link their name to these main pillars.

Participants add smaller circles around each main pillar, representing related points of interest in more detail.

The article includes images illustrating the different stages of creating a Personal Map.

Benefits and Insights

Indeed, these personal maps speak much more than the words written on the sheets. There is a very interesting part of psychological analysis that we can analyze from these drawings.

Let’s start again from Robert’s personal map:

Management 3.0 workshop – Step 2

Robert standardizes all of his circles and makes straight lines. You quickly understand that he is a person who likes the organized things. He didn’t have the extravagance to use some colors but he has used just black, which partly supports this analysis.

Imagine, Julia, a young student with a lot of dreams who has a mindset completely opposite to Robert. We would probably have a very different personal map:

You will quickly understand that Julia’s personality is not at all the same compared to Robert. The personal map really allows you to know much more about each member of the team.

If the manager better know each member of the team, he can really have best behaviors or decisions with them. There is more chance to have united teams if he can really understand everyone in the team.

Besides, in the event of conflicts or even resignation, that will help HR and managers.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the article encourages readers to try out the Personal Map exercise within their teams as a way to gather essential information for better team understanding. The tool can contribute to improved team dynamics, better management, and conflict resolution.
Useful Link: The article provides a link to more Management 3.0 content in French.