Reduce under-utilization of resources
while reducing organizational stress
Fast-Result, Affordable, High-Impact Programs for
Strategy, Capacity and Team Building
The Opportunity
Until you have deliberately worked on it, your organization likely has unused potential capacity.
The same conditions contribute to excessive organzational stress.
How much additional value for your customers can you produce with that unused capacity, and with team members who are less stressed?
Our offer: (limited time)
We help you uncover that unused capacity, and you set the price for our service.
– Start with a 1-hour demonstration workshop that will produce real value.
– Based on that, sign up for our core workshop program:
– 5 hours of online workshops over a two to three weeks or less, producing strong knowledge sharing, detailed process models, and concrete action plans (see example work products here).
– We will invoice you at an affordable fixed cost.
– Wait 30 days; we will follow up.
– Then pay us based on what you think the results are worth, in terms of the extra capacity to have impact that we discover with you. If you believe pro bono is appropriate, we will agree.
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ActionMap Services Overview
We use “Capacity Building” in the strong sense to include a range of functions that contribute to increased value creation.
See client testimonials, sample engagements and examples of work products at actionmap.com/testimonials.
For conversation and demonstration on a subject of interest to you now, click here for a 15 minute zoom.
How do ActionMap workshops produce value?
That’s what ActionMap workshops do.
ActionMap addresses an unmet need for process skills and services in small and medium sized organizations.
What is the cost in terms of delivering value
of not having access to those skills and services?
What about the organizational stress?
Who has used ActionMap and why?
The ActionMap® Toolkit™ method has been used in over 100 engagements, with organizations including these:
The ActionMap® Toolkit™ method has been used for many purposes, including those shown here:
Overcome a major barrier to increasing value delivery, that is:
Lack of shared understanding
People often take shared understanding for granted. However lack of shared understanding is a major barrier to any sort of change, because lack of shared understanding causes questions such as these:
The way to overcome this barrier is to create strong shared understanding among stakeholders of each other’s of tasks, values, ideas and plans.
Strong shared understanding supports many ways to increase service delivery, including:
– Process Improvement
– New Service Development
– Strategy and Organizational Change
– Employee Productivity and Engagement
The conventional approach to creating strong shared understanding:
A long series of meetings
Accelerate increased service delivery with ActionMap workshops
See client testimonials, sample engagements and examples of work products at actionmap.com/testimonials.
ActionMap employs an innovative software application for conducting reliable, fast-paced, high-engagement facilitated workshops, both online and in-person.
ActionMap’s approach to creating strong shared understanding
ActionMap Workshops
The workshops combine process mapping with process evaluating to rapidly and reliably produce strong shared understanding among participants.
The workshops produce many “ah hah!” moments, as people see the big picture…
…recognize how their jobs are connected…
…and learn about each other’s interests and concerns.
The workshops extend that strong shared understanding with focused brainstorming to create effective, doable, agreed on action plans.
What are multi-workshop programs like?
Workshop Program Designs
General Guidelines
❑ Workshops use an online software application, accessed through e-meeting services such as Zoom or WebEx. Participants need to be able to view the application via individual workstations or large display screens or projections in meeting rooms.
❑ Identify the right people to attend and participate. The group will ideally consists of people that together have knowledge of the entire topic area, and who are central for creating strong shared understanding and alignment.
❑ Workshops are initially scheduled for two hours, with 90+ minutes effective working time.
❑ No advance training or knowledge exchange is required for participants or facilitator. Just schedule the time and get started.
❑ Results are exported to PowerPoint and Excel for broad distribution.
❑ The PowerPoint and Excel work products can be used after the workshops to capture additional information from a larger group. That information can then be added into the software for re-export.
ActionMap offers subscriptions and training in the software so that groups can run their own workshops with no further ActionMap service fees.
What do ActionMap services cost?
How much are ActionMap services worth to your organiztation?
You decide. That’s our offer.
Below is our target pricing. Our offer is this. We will deliver the core program, described below. After 30 days, you decide how much you think it was worth to your organization, and pay us that. Including if you think it should be pro bono, or of no value to you.
We make this offer in part because we believe the services will advance your positive impact in any case (and we want that to happen.)
Core workshop programs deliver significant standalone value in terms of:
❑ knowledge sharing,
❑ team building,
❑ detailed process maps, and
❑ concrete, doable action plans
These core programs can be conducted within a few weeks (or even days) at a fixed cost of $995.
Again, this is a standalone value: you do not need us afterwards.
This core program package covers:
❑ Initial consultation and program design conversation (see “Program Design” above.)
❑ Communications for meeting planning and coordination.
❑ Up to four hours of online workshop time, producing the work products described our examples page (click), along with strong shared understanding, knowledge sharing and team buliding.
❑ Post-workshop document preparation (for distribution in PowerPoint and Excel).
❑ Up to an hour of action plan organizing, formatting and review.
❑ Workshop and program review conversations.
This investment can be rapidly returned through increased productivity and impact, and has lasting benefits in terms of shared understanding and process documentation.
This investment can also be compared to impact that will not occur if you do not increase capacity in this or another way.
Additional services are billed at a target rate of $195 per hour, always on clear mutual agreement.
The times above are flexible; our goal is to deliver the results.
Alternative fee and payment structures are also available.
And again, you decide, after 30 days, whether the services have produced value for your organization, and how much that is worth.
Who delivers ActionMap services?
About ActionMap
ActionMap services are delivered by Jim Johnson, co-founder of ActionMap Inc., a consultancy and software provider based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Jim’s career includes over 40 years of:
❑ IT development, management, support and sales
❑ Tier 1 consulting business development and account management
❑ IT performance management and compliance
❑ Professional meeting facilitation.
Jim has a B.S. in Mathematics from Harvey Mudd College, where he served as student body president.
For more information about Jim see his LinkedIn profile here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimjohnson
or see the “Company Info” item on the main menu above.
Call to Action
If you are interested in accelerating value delivery and learning more, please reach out to me in one of these ways:
Connect or send me a message on LinkedIn:
Jim Johnson
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimjohnson/
Arrange a conversation at this link: 15 minute Zoom meeting
Email me at:
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