Business Design Workshop

Features the d.BOBO business modelling tool that organizes your business from end to end and top to bottom.  Non-profit and existing groups too.  How Tos include: 

• clarify true mission and vision

• plan research & focus on insight

• sketch delivery channels

• i.d. customer voice/needs

• map internal activities & workspace (including costs and quality)

• create brand, promotion and salesfunnel

Consultations available as well as a full day workshop.

Mission & Vision Statement Workshop

A two hour workshop that establishes they 'why' (mission) of your organization business or initiative.  Why did you create it, join it, hire folks to work at it, ask stakeholders to believe in it?  A simple and TRUE statement must be clear to those you serve as well as those who are to deliver the services/product ('en-missioned').  We also help you establish a simple useful vision: where this organization/business 'be' (size, scope, expertise, leader of the field, best in class) at a measurable time in the accessible future. 

Process Mapping Workshop

This workshop covers process mapping fundamentals, digitizing your maps and features direct hands-on mapping of a critical process in your organization.  Process thinking can eliminate 'poor' quality and help indicate the health of an organization, especially in 'service' and 'transactional' work.

Presentation (slide deck) CRITs

Are your reports and presentations difficult for stakeholders or clients/customers to follow?  Do your flyers or general visuals need better organization?  This session covers the fundamentals of information design and visualizing data/text/illustrations to provide stronger insight instead of confusion in slide decks, brochures & other promotional materials, reports (internal and external), presentations and even websites that your team produces.  Crits (critiques), can be a short as 15 minutes or week long projects).  We can distill and redesign your keynote, powerpoint, word, or other presentation into the valuable deck your customers think of as clear and understandable.

Resources for Small Business & Organization Leaders:

www.pinterest.com/reidren/business-organization-development-consulting/ - 200+biz/org ideas

Buzzsumo.com - basic research about an industry or topic (id top blogs and popular posts)

Google Voice - for a free phone # link to your cell

Google My Business - www.google.com/business

Gmail for Business - gsuite.google.com/products/gmail/

Sankey Diagram - tool to see your operating budget (insight from data)

HOW to Build Powerful Frameworks to Teach What You Know, (as freelancer, entrepreneur or small business startup)  

How to generate leads from a blog

How to build trust with your audience: good copy text

Great looking proposals made easy: goprospero

Where to find black stock photos: https://lifehacker.com/where-to-find-more-diverse-stock-photos-1818506868

Logo case studies: evolution of logos

Must SEE Videos

Nipsey Hussle - Authenticity (deliberation, thoughtfulness and politeness) is the key (..people don’t buy what you do, they buy WHY you do it).

Tiffany Haddish - Courage to get GRIP for your important work (customer survey, direct deadly feedback). Click link here: http://bit.ly/2QMzaeR

My Black Year Maggie Anderson

Kezia M. Williams @keziamw - good black folk biz posts

Madan Sara - Business at the core: overcoming structural obstacles to deliver a Need

How to SET GOALS (& rich channel about a creative/practical note-taking).

Excellent workshop by Chris Do at Futur Inc. discussing HOW TO PRICE your service (applies across industries).

Excellent video about CREATING LOGOS.

TED talk: Simon Sinek "The Golden Circle".  This is a solid (though ego-filled) talk related to MISSION/VISION statement writing

The simple genius of a GOOD GRAPHIC.

How to teach what you know

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