From the course: Note-Taking for Business Professionals

Designing an organization chart

From the course: Note-Taking for Business Professionals

Designing an organization chart

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- In this video, you're going to learn how to create an organization chart using the XMind software platform. Organization charts give you a nice, big picture of how things are structured. Companies use them to show the structure of an organization. If you had to create one, you might find this particular template very useful. Notice where it says Org Chart at the top. You might want to double click here and replace the name with the company name or your organization's name. On the next line, you'll notice Department A, B, and C. You might replace these with actual department names like Marketing, Sales, HR, Customer Service, and so on. On the next line below the departments, you would list the person in charge of that particular department, and then any other person that may be reporting to him or her. If you need to add more departments, just click back at the top, on the organization's name, and press the Enter button on your keyboard. Another thing you can do to replicate this even quicker is to click and copy one of the other departments, and click on your organization's name at the top, and simply Paste. Notice how this will paste the entire structure beneath the organization chart. That's definitely something that can help you save a lot of time if you're dealing with a large organization. Since I don't need this topic anymore, I'm just going to delete it. Organization charts give you a nice, big picture view of how things are structured. You can use this template to guide you through creating one of your own. So, that's it for organization charts. Feel free to use the exercise file for your next Org Chart.

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