Let’s Progress Your Business Story!

When careers and organizations align paths, you have the potential to reach your full business maturity!

The Business Problem:

Every organization that scales up, merges/acquires/outsources, or optimizes outdated operations, goes through transformative changes that require project management. Unfortunately, most try to do it without project management professionals. They just assign functional managers to do the work on top of everything else those managers (and teams) are doing. 70% of organizational projects without PMP best practices fail. 70% with succeed!

This presents an opportunity for organizations to trust team members, who are familiar with your company, with a chance to lead and manage projects while making professional development applicable. If they do a good job, promote them into permanent improvement project management roles or as team leads. Then, hire other specialists into the vacant position for them to train. Together they can build the companies knowledge management (as part of smaller project teams) for their areas of work and beyond. Now you have established an Improvement Culture and naturally ramped up your collective capabilities to implement and sustain changes for the better.

Another way is to hire PMPs and setup a PMO to begin with. While successful operations allow for growth, project work facilitates it. What got you here, won’t get you to the next level of business process maturity. One thing is clear: Companies that fail to develop their professionals and prepare their workforce for change and progress, either fail to mature and grow or experience extreme growing pains while trying to figure it out.

That’s why I produced a 3-in-1 change, project, knowledge/improvement system of programs that teaches people at each level of the organization their part in integrating a better way of work.

The Plot:

Every Story is About Growth (Professional Development and Business Advancement)!

With every challenging business phase, comes opportunities for growth and success through learning, applying, and adapting while administering change, project, and knowledge/improvement management best practices.

There are 3 main plotlines (storyboards) or challenges/opportunities:

1. Startup – Professionals get the business going (and/or get their career going).
2. Scale Up – Professionals expand the business (and/or expand their career capacities and capabilities).
3. Maturation – Professionals position the business as an industry leader (and/or position their careers as expert resources in progressing a business to full fruition).

Meet regularly as a company, check your scoreboard, and celebrate your accomplishments. If you are all working on company goals in one form or another, everyone will have some part in the wins and have some reason to stick around and celebrate success after success.

The Hero:

Every Business Story needs a Change Agent who takes on the Challenge to Progress Work!

Your story is yours to champion as an organization! If you have accepted the challenge to take on the story conflict in your business story’s path, you are the hero of your story. Your career, teams, and organization are counting on each other to develop professional skills to lead and manage some area of your work in tandem with one another as advocates, adopters, and champions of the work.

Work as one team and make the team the hero of any change projects!

The Story Conflict:

Every Business Story faces Business Problems that threaten the Story’s Success!

Your story would not be a triumphant success without opposition! If it were easy someone will have already accomplished the feat. But with no adversity, it would not be possible for you to achieve best outcomes. You will face internal personal struggles (professional development), project team disagreements (team culture and dynamics), and external challenges (organizational threats) working against your strategic initiatives and professional growth, but relax, projects are a team sport.

Turn to stakeholders invested in your success, your support group cheering you on, and your trusted guides. Rely on each other to overcome any obstacles in your way, work for one another, and succeed together!

The Guide:

Every Business Story has Business Needs and can Benefit from a Guide with Business Solutions!

Your story, while unique, is not without available guidance from tried-and-true best practices of successful business leaders and organizational change project management professionals who have navigated similar paths. Our guides can assist you at every critical step along the way to organizational project management integration. We can help you achieve success at every step forward in your career pursuits and at every level of your organization!

The Solutions:

Storyboard PM “Pivotal” Change Management Program Guide
Storyboard PM “Practical” Project Management Program Guide
Storyboard PM “Perpetual” Knowledge Management Program Guide

The Plan:

Every Business Story has a well-thought-out Plan, well at least those with Happy Endings!

Your story has only two possible outcomes: failure or success. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Most change efforts fail because there is no formal process, support (sponsorship), and apparent (high-level) sign-off to individual, team, and organizational efforts that keeps everyone focused and in sync on the same priorities. Our guides allow for some autonomy in finding your way, especially when unknowns arise, but what set’s our system apart from any other is how much is known, how it connects it all together, and how each area builds on one another. These plans allow you to reach your greatest potential (individually and collectively).

Organizational Change Management – Setup the foundational models, form, governance, and criteria to measure success (Objectives & Key Results (OKRs)) necessary for strategic implementations, including policies for integrating formal project management that continually matures business processes and teamwork at the organizational level, in order to accomplish strategic change initiatives.

Professional Change Project Management – Setup the structural framework, training, and criteria to measure success (Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)), and support necessary to develop some form of formal change management and formal project management processes tailored to your organization’s current individual, teams, and cultural levels of acceptance and ability, so your leaders and teams can act more officially with greater sign-off, authority, and agility for practical project management implementations to continually mature your capacity, work activities, and work together at the team level, in order to take on change efforts as a unified whole.

Knowledge Management & Continual Improvement Model – Setup the operational finishing touches, documentation (quality checklists, Organizational Process Assets (OPAs) and knowledge base additions and updates), and completion criteria to measure success against (Performance Development Plans and Business Plans), necessary to enact standard procedures for better workflows and continuous improvement at the individual level, in order to optimize growth and desired business and professional outcomes year over year.

The Story Resolutions:

Act Now! Avoid Failure! Enjoy Success!

Storyboard PM’s programs take a holistic approach to change your organization across all levels for the better in the simplest way possible. Together we can get to the heart of your change culture, build cohesive teams, and get change project results.

See for yourself (buy an individual license). If you like what you see, let’s get all the members of your team up-to-speed (buy licenses for all your employees).

Our Promise:

We guarantee your satisfaction. We know the benefits will exceed the costs. If you can honestly say you got nothing out of the programs that made it worth the expense to you, we will refund your money (within the first 30 days), no questions asked.