The NRM Dojo Jumpstarts are excellent immersive learning options intended to enable a significant business capability. Success comes with learning by doing in this focused & collaborative environment:
- Learn something new
- Gain a new capability
- Improve how something is done
- Solve a real problem
- Conquer technical debt
Each NRM Dojo Jumpstart is short in duration, focused, and immersive learning/doing opportunity that is crafted to accomplish what you need most right now. Each NRM Dojo Jumpstart is designed to cover a topic thoroughly as well as enable it for you to leverage as a persistent capability. Each is customized to your situation and meets you where you currently are for concentrated maximum benefit. So, we won’t waste time rehashing what you may already know and dive right into the topic early on Day 1.
The NRM Dojo Jumpstarts have three main purposes:
| Dojo Purpose | Description |
|---|---|
| Improve understanding | Each dojo improves a team’s understanding of an important capability by doing. This enables you to leverage it for impactful and beneficial change. |
| Build local expertise | Builds the local expertise and confidence needed to apply and expand concepts for future capabilities. Local experts can them confidently spread this capability to other teams for broader gains. |
| Inspire additional learning | Inspire additional learning and exploration of the topic by demonstrate how continual learning is a critical dimension of culture needed for success. |
Each NRM Dojo Jumpstart typically lasts approximately 1 week requiring only a few hours a day of participation resulting in significant lasting improvements and rapid returns with limited disruption. With our expert guidance your team learns to implement the new capability to collaboratively produce impactful and frictionless change.
This is all highly generative meaning that along the way participants collaborate and influence the proceedings to converge on the why, what, and how of what needs to be done. These can represent a transformational new beginning or otherwise seek to improve maturity levels indicating higher levels of mastery and proficiency.
You would be hard pressed to find any other team-oriented learning opportunity that can have such an impact for so little cost and disruption. While pricing is designed for a typical team there are quantity discounts for multiple teams and/or multiple dojos for amplified success.
Available NRM Dojo Jumpstarts (limited access protected content):
| Dojo Offerings & Maturity Model | Overview |
|---|---|
| Flow Engineering Flow Engineering Maturity Model | Get to know the powerful concepts behind Flow Engineering to gain a cultural capability to improve any process in a highly collaborative way. |
| Supply Chain Resilience Supply Chain Resilience Maturity Model | Learn to stabilize and limit risks related to external supply chain dependencies. Option to include suppliers to further improve reliability. |
| NRM North Star Approach North Star Maturity Model | Gain proficiency in leveraging Continuous North Star concepts to increase performance through improved focus and alignment of effort. |
| Business Debt Elimination Business Debt Maturity Model | Business Debt involved Technical Debt as well as Operational Debt. Accumulated Business Debt causes nagging problems that are slowing you down or even crippling your ability to compete and deliver customer value reliably. |
| Business Agility Business Agility Maturity Model | Gain the advantages of improved business agility. |
| Organizational Learning Organizational Learning Maturity Model | It is more difficult than you might imagine establishing a growth mindset and build organizational learning into the culture. |
| Dojo in a box | Borrow from and build on the NRM Dojo program to either implement some other custom capability that we have not thought of or learn how to make your own dojo program to run with to drive enhanced learning or inspiration change with less friction. |
Each NRM Dojo Jumpstart typically includes the following:
Initial framing and intake – free with no obligation up to 30 minutes
- Introductions
- Explain dojo concept and the topic of interest and importance of culture and support from above. How to both talk the talk AND walk the walk…
- Next steps
- Homework: Internal soul-searching session on related dojo opportunity engagements
- Contact NRM to initiate an NRM Dojo Jumpstart soon – typically at least one month out
Dojo engagement
- Formal kick-off: (typically Wednesday of prior week but influenced by sprint cycle)
- Introduce Dojo topic to leaders & the team involved
- Explain daily dojo progression, involvement, and participation expectations
- Explain access to NRM client content
- Explain content specific homework if any that may be needed to hit the ground running
- Enter the dojo (varies somewhat based on topic area):
- Day 1: Get oriented and get started up to 3 hours
- Day 2: Continue making progress up to 2 hours
- Day 3: Continue making progress up to 2 hours
- Day 4: Continue making progress up to 2 hours
- Day 5: Wrap it up + Next Steps + Q & A up to 2 hours
- Next steps
- Some dojos work through the process to set the stage for what needs to be done – So next you may need to go do what your team has designed.
- Set target date for follow-up with NRM
- Reference NRM client content as needed
- Contact NRM representative to assistance as needed
- NRM follow-up with team
- Q & A
- Retrospective on process, learning, and gains
- Final report produced and circulated to all
- Pick your next target improvement from backlog – rinse and repeat – with or without NRM guidance.