Systems Creation & Project Management
I work with clients to identify and build processes, tools, and structures that allow them to work more efficiently and maintain quality standards.
What's Involved?
Why Invest?
Systems creation covers a wide variety of activities to give supportive structures to your organization, and can include:
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onboarding materials for new hires (or those new to a role)
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standard operating procedures (SOPs) to codify and build on best practices
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feedback and decision-making structures
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ways to support succession planning
Building systems can allow members of your organization to move ahead with clarity and to move among portfolios with ease, as needed. No more reinventing the wheel or lost energy/productivity/motivation due to team members working at cross-purposes.
Hiring someone to manage a specific project can be a way to quickly achieve a desired goal efficiently. By combining the management with systems-building and training of your team members, you can dramatically build capacity in your organization at the same time.
More About Systems
One phrase from Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline, summarizes this approach: "Systems determine behaviour." All groups run on systems, whether they are aware of it or not. We need to consciously choose and mold our systems, or else fall into whatever unconscious systems happen to have been created.
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SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures)
Any process that is done more than once should invite the question, "Can we systematize this?" Creating documentation allows different people to step into a task and ensure any learning from previous work has been included. In some cases, this will lead to a further step: automation. Paradoxically, this focus on systemization can actually help make things more human-centred.
"Systems Thinking"
Systems are constantly at play in organizations, creating outcomes that affect all aspects of your work. Groups that don't intentionally apply systems thinking principles and approaches are at the mercy of whatever systems have been unconsciously created. In contrast, intentionally creating systems and applying systems thinking to address persistent problems can unlock potential and address underlying problems (not just the symptoms).
Capacity Building
Every organization has untapped resources. Is it part of your organizational culture to be looking for ways to empower individual growth and collective resiliency? From the stability of succession planning to the job satisfaction of feeling like your role is growing with you, focusing on how to strengthen the team you already have feeds many birds with one hand.
Co-founder and Principal, Renert School
Aaron Renert, LL.B., M.Sc.
"Chris is detail oriented, technology savvy, has a sky-high emotional IQ, and has a “can do” approach to every project he undertakes. "
SAIT Professor
Dave Carlgren, Ph. D.
“Saying you listen between the lines doesn’t do it justice; you’re hearing what’s between the lines three pages ahead."
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