Rapidly create powerful activity maps for better, faster positive impact
Example Map
“Make Pizza Dinner”
Example Map
“Operate Pizza Parlor”
Why use ActionMap?
ActionMap empowers you to:
■ Accelerate positive impact in complex situations.
■ Increase your effectiveness with easy-to-learn software.
■ Rapidly create eye-opening visuals in fast-paced work sessions.
■ Maintain focus in meetings with maps that show the big picture AND the details.
■ Overcome complex challenges with fast, versatile, easy-to-understand workflow models.
■ Seamlessly integrate organization goals, stakeholder interests, and staff member insights…and more!
Key results for clients and workshop participants include:
■ Greater clarity about the activity
■ Reduced stress from not trying to remember it all
■ Increased effectiveness at making agreed-on decisions.
Where do you and your clients experience those needs?
What types of activities can ActionMap be applied to?
ActionMap can be applied to:
■ Tasks, roles and jobs
■ Projects, organizations and movements
■ Technology, social and natural systems
Any activity that a person or group needs to perform, operate, manage, develop, participate in and/or learn about.
ActionMap’s focus is not just about the activity.
It’s about helping people who work with the activity improve their experience with the activity.
We use the term “job” to highlight that people are part of the process, whether it involves manning a work bench or managing a factory.
Who can use ActionMap, and for what puposes?
For Job Holders
- ✅ Increased Job satisfaction
- ✅ Reduced job stress
- ✅ More awareness of personal capability
- ✅ Greater ability to communicate the value of the job
For Job Seekers
- ✅ Better preparation for internal advancement
- ✅ Better understanding of outside job opportunities
- ✅ Better preparation for interviews
For Coaches
- ✅ Better performance coaching
- ✅ Better, faster discovery
- ✅ Increased confidence and objectivity
- ✅ Clearer focus on doable actions
For Managers
- ✅ Clearer expection setting
- ✅ Better performance coaching
- ✅ Better collaborative process improvement
- ✅ Stronger team coordination
- ✅ Better use of supporting tools
For HR
- ✅ Better recruiting, onboarding, and training
- ✅ Clearer communication of assignments and expectations
- ✅ Greater engagement and productivity
For Consultants
- Better Faster:
- ✅ Full cycle process development and improvement
- ✅ Organizational development
- ✅ Business planning
- ✅ Executive alignment
- ✅ Decision support
Which of these purposes are important to you and your clients?
What do the Maps look like? (more examples)
“Make and Ship Product”
“Senior Software Engineer”
“Corporate Recruiting Team”
Think about an activity of interest to you now, and imagine it being quickly and reliably mapped into this format.
Free training on how to do that using pencil and paper or with a free trial of the software is provided at our “How to Map a Job” page.
Who has used ActionMap?
ActionMap® workshops have been used in over 100 engagements, with organizations including these:
What has ActionMap been used for?
ActionMap® workshops have been used for many purposes, including those shown here:
How can ActionMap support all these things?
Why mapping makes a difference
➔ Mapping a job creates much greater understanding of the job for people both outside the job and the job holder.
➔ That’s because most “job knowledge” is performance knowledge, not descriptive knowledge.
➔ A person might have learned the job through training, trial and error and practice, without ever having to describe the job in detail.
➔ It’s the difference between tying a pair of shoelaces and describing how to tie a pair of shoelaces.
➔ Expand that difference to the complexity of a contemporary knowledge work job.
➔ The knowledge is in there, it just hasn’t been expressed in an integrated description.
➔ Mapping a job captures, organizes and shares that performance knowledge.
Why does that matter?
It matters because you cannot make effective changes around a job or activity without having a clear description, and related understanding, of the job or activity.
What is the result of not having clear descriptions of the job or activity?
Lack of clear descriptions harms:
■ Communication ❌
■ Coordination ❌
■ Collaboration ❌
Think about your personal experience when there has been a lack of clear description, and thus shared understanding, of a job or activity.
What was lost?
- ■ Increased job satisfaction ❌
- ■ Reduced job stress ❌
- ■ More awareness of personal capability ❌
- ■ Greater understanding of the value being created and how to communicate it ❌
- ■ Better preparation for internal advancement ❌
- ■ Better understanding of outside job opportunities ❌
- ■ Better preparation for interviews ❌
- ■ Better recruiting, onboarding, and training ❌
- ■ Greater engagement and productivity ❌
- ■ Clearer communication between management and staff ❌
- ■ Better performance coaching ❌
- ■ Better executive coaching ❌
- ■ Better collaborative process improvement ❌
- ■ Better use of supporting tools and functions ❌
ActionMap® workshops deliver a uniquely empowering knowledge-building experience, best understood through a free demonstration on a subject of interest to you now.
OR, try it out yourself, by mapping your job using pencil and paper and the free step-by-step instructions at actionmap.com/howtomapajob
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