structures and processes
Organisational design
high performance organisation
I have crafted a course on organisational design that incorporates best practices any company can implement to create greater alignment, become better at goal setting and strategic planning, transform their teams into highly efficient, independent and accountable power-houses.
Course Outline
Module 1: Effective internal communication
- Importance of good communication
- 4 communication types
- 4 communication styles
- Audience
- Presentation
- Medium
- Timing
- Documentation principles
- Documentation tools and practices
- Preparation work before the meeting
- Running the meeting effectively
- Post-meeting responsibilities
- Benefits of Communication Guidelines
- Structure of Communication Guidelines
Module 2: Creating alignment in organisation
- Creating inclusive communication
- Transparent documentation tools and practices
- Fostering open discussions
- Prioritisation techniques
- Roadmapping
- Risks associated with deadlines and time estimates
- Planning of the future work (short-term planning, “pull” principle, unwritten contract between the manager and the team)
- Demonstrating the work products (objectives, format, audience)
- Eradicating the culture of reporting
- Considerations for setting time limitations and deadlines
- Practices for improving the mutual trust
- Collaboration with other teams (daily sync, awareness of other team’s work products)
- The role of managers in splitting the work and resolving conflicts
Module 3: Designing high-efficiency teams
- Including all the necessary skills and competences inside the team (independence)
- Rotating roles and responsibilities
- Learning new skills
- Crafting internal collaboration structure inside the team (communication, meetings, documentation, decision making, responsibilities, planning)
- The role of a manager in planning the work (short vs medium vs long-term planning, delegating styles)
- Structure of the planning meetings
- Tracking the progress and status of tasks (work visualisation)
- Daily synchronisation
- Collaboration and support inside the team (good flow of the workflow)
- The role of the manager in enabling the team (removing impediments)
- Demonstrating work products
- Regular work refinement practices
- Strategic planning
- Building trust between the team an the manager
- Building trust between the team members
- Creating practices that foster collaboration and mutual support inside the team
Module 4: Creating learning culture
- Sustainability
- Creativity and innovation
- Retention
- Feedback culture in the organisational hierarchy
- Feedback during meetings
- Feedback for personal development
- The role of Retrospectives in decision making and company culture
- The Retrospective technique – practical advice and tools
- The use of Retrospectives in different forums of a company
- The objectives and format of Communities of Practice
- Introducing Communities of Practice and establishing the necessary support for them
- Leading communities of practice in a company
“Janis expertise and hands-on approach to coaching our cross-functional teams to become better has been vital to expose anti-patterns and tackle those - to strengthen our business development efforts. His expertise and fresh thinking helped to improve team efficiency and introduce strategic product prioritisation practices.”
"Thanks to Jānis, the team was not only able to scale but also deliver with speed, rigor, and cohesiveness - which enabled us to consistently hit our team and company-wide OKRs."
António Lopes
Senior Product Manager | ex-Revolut