• Agile Coach

This is how companies grab the market in times of crisis

COVID-19 is a keeper. As terrible(understatement) as that is. In the coming winter months, too, various measures will continue to be taken from on high to get us all through uncertain times. Or do we, as organizations and entrepreneurs, also have influence here? One thing is certain: how we work together and where we work has changed dramatically. And the measures are disrupting the way we organize. Are we victims and paralyzed or is there a choice to be made?

Organizations and businesses have always had to continuously adapt. Can they do the same now with a long-term strategy? No. There is no idea yet what Dutch business and society will be like a year from now. We have to deal with that uncertainty now. Yet that does not mean that we should wait passively. Postponing a project once because of uncertain times, understandable. But pushing everything forward and standing still for a year? Of course not. The good thing is: you don’t have to. . You can also choose to actively anticipate, reinvent your business and creatively deal with challenges. Scrum Academy facilitates the online and hybrid sessions that your organization can use to keep moving forward.

Uncertainty requires entrepreneurship and decisiveness

Scrum Academy is made up of entrepreneurs. So we too deal with that current uncertainty. So every week we discuss developments in society and developments at our clients. But we also look at what influence and opportunities this has on our mission and business. Our mission ‘Create dynamism in your market’ with the payoff ‘Get your world moving’ is very clear, especially in these turbulent times.

The idea is to create your own momentum and thereby set your world in motion. You could also say that by COVID-19 the market and world is set in motion for us. And since this period may be long, it is time to take matters into your own hands.

Scrum Academy’s message is clear: Increase your own Business Agility. You can’t wait a year to do that now. That is unnecessarily risky and also irresponsible for many organizations. Immediately reduce the risk of wasted time and money and shorten the time to monetize new values. See where the opportunities of now and tomorrow lie.

After top-down crisis decisions, there is again room for initiatives from across the organization

Unlike in the spring, when managements took top-down decisions in a crisis to force a different way of organizing (supported by clear measures from the government), it is now time to do organizational development together again. Inventing the new organization is too complex to oversee from the top. Drawing out from the top what the best way to innovate and develop is a waste of time. This must come primarily from the teams. High time to start working with the inner workings of your organization.

This is how hybrid organizational coaching works

Organizational development also works very well in a hybrid form of training and coaching. We are currently coaching transitions at organizations where we have never been on site. We are working with teams we have not yet met in person. Our clients’ challenges vary: managing and scaling growth, getting platforms ready for new legislation, accelerating innovations. And managing this online (sometimes in a hybrid form) goes exceptionally well.

With our customers, we have been successful in recent months:

• Objectives and KeyResults established so that organizations have more focus on the value they add.
• Created and aligned a roadmap of the organization and dependencies within teams so that the progress of complex projects is clear and can be properly managed.
• Teams rigged up and brought up to speed, where we benefited greatly from online training and the direct link to the day-to-day practice of teams. This way a work(mode) is immediately organized differently, without being perceived as extra work for the teams.
• Supervised innovation teams, working with each other to deliver accelerated remote key product innovation for the company to increase market position.

Together with our clients, we validate our collaboration on two fronts:

• Do we increase the Business Value of the organization with the transition?
• And how does the way we organize accelerate this?

Don’t want to wait until COVID-19 is resolved or out of the world? But do you want to create momentum and grab your market now? Then give Gert-Jan a call.

In an online meeting, we’ll get to know you, set up an initial plan and get to work putting your world in motion!