Your Swiss Army Knife for Organizational Superpowers
Ever felt like your team is a bunch of talented people wandering around in circles? Like you're playing organizational whack-a-mole with problems that keep popping up? Welcome to the club!
This collection of battle-tested methods will help you transform chaos into clarity, meetings into magic, and confusion into collaboration. Think of it as your organizational GPS – but instead of "turn left in 200 meters," it's "run this workshop in 90 minutes."
For when your team needs to figure out who they are and what they're doing
Perfect for new teams, confused teams, or teams that just realized they've been having the same meeting for three months. Covers everything from "why do we exist?" to "please stop scheduling meetings during lunch."
Best for: New teams, restructured teams, or any team that's tired of asking "wait, what are we supposed to be doing again?"
For teams who want to plan like pros, not like panicked squirrels
Say goodbye to quarterly planning sessions that feel like group therapy gone wrong. This adaptive approach means you can actually respond to change instead of just complaining about it.
Best for: Teams tired of plans that are obsolete before the ink dries, or anyone who's ever said "but we planned this six months ago!"
For leaders who want to lead, not just attend more meetings
Helps leadership teams figure out how to actually lead instead of getting stuck in the weeds. Includes scientifically-backed methods for spending less time in meetings and more time being awesome.
Best for: Leaders drowning in meetings, new leadership teams, or anyone who's ever wondered "how did I become a professional meeting attendee?"
The GPS for leadership teams navigating remote/hybrid chaos
Based on Ken Wilber's Integral Theory (fancy!), this helps leadership teams tackle the invisible stuff (culture, mindset) and the visible stuff (processes, structures) that make or break remote teams.
Best for: Remote/hybrid teams, leaders feeling disconnected, or anyone trying to figure out this whole "leading humans through screens" thing.
For when you want to fail spectacularly... in your imagination
Instead of waiting for things to go wrong, imagine they already have! It's like time travel, but for risk management. Surprisingly fun and definitely less painful than real failure.
Best for: Skeptical teams, high-stakes projects, or anyone who's ever thought "this feels like that disaster from last year..."
Custom-built for Product, Mission, and Operations teams
Not your generic, one-size-fits-nobody planning approach. This is tailored planning that actually makes sense for how your team works.
Best for: Teams that are tired of forcing square pegs into round planning holes, or anyone who's ever left a planning session more confused than when they started.
Your team's digital mission control center
Create a "big room" (that's what Obeya means in Japanese) in the digital world where all your important stuff lives. Like having a really smart, organized friend who remembers everything.
Best for: Distributed teams, information chaos, or leaders who need a single place to see "how are we actually doing?"
- Pick Your Pain Point: Scroll through the toolkit and find what matches your current organizational headache
- Read the Guide: Each method comes with facilitation instructions, timing, and pro tips
- Gather Your Humans: Most of these work best with 5-10 people (but we've got async options too!)
- Follow the Recipe: We've done the hard work of figuring out what works
- Adapt & Iterate: Make it yours – these are frameworks, not commandments
- Time-Boxed Everything: No more meetings that feel like they're lasting until the heat death of the universe
- Async Options: For teams that prefer collaboration without the awkward video call silences
- Psychological Safety Built-In: We acknowledge that change is scary and humans are complicated
- Action-Oriented: Every session ends with actual next steps, not just "let's circle back"
- Battle-Tested: These methods have survived contact with real teams in real organizations
New Team? → Start with Team Group Launch Framework
Planning Disasters? → Try Group Planning or Team Planning Workshop
Leadership Chaos? → Leadership Launch or Leadership Map
Worried About Failure? → Strategic Pre-mortem
Information Scattered Everywhere? → Virtual Obeya Design Studio
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/]
Translation: Use it, remix it, make it better – just give us credit!
By: Operational Excellence Co-Operative Limited
We believe good organizational methods should be shared, not hoarded. Take these, make them work for your context, and help make the world a little less dysfunctional, one team at a time.
Ready to turn your organizational chaos into something beautiful? Pick a method and dive in!
Remember: You don't have to be perfect at this stuff – you just have to be better than you were yesterday. 🌟