How to improve the Health & Effectiveness of your Drupal Agency

My background:

I am the co-founder of Navigate the Journey, a consulting firm that helps owners of entreprenurial companies and their leadership team focus & grow their business.  We specialize in working with digital agencies, studios and consultancies.  We add value to our clients primarily by helping them clarify their vision, create an actionable plan to turn their vision into reality, and by also instilling the discipline to follow through and execute their plan over the long run, leading to improved business results. 

Level of knowledge should attendees have before walking into your session:

Attendees will need no prior knowlege - by virtue of the fact that they work in a drupal agency, like all agencies they would have varying extents of not being as strong as they could be in the kinds of issues the presentation outlines (such as planning and follow through, accountability, how to have better meetings etc).   Owners and all employees of consulting / clients service firms have an inordinate pull to work "in" the business, and rarely spend adequate time working "on" the business - EOS remedies that imbalance. 

Attendees will walk away having learned:

• The Entreprenurial Operating System ("EOS") - popularized by the book "Traction" - is a holistic system you can run your Drupal agency on, and includes simple, practical but highly effective tools.
• Agencies that install EOS get stronger in 3 areas we call Vision, Traction & Healthy:
  • Vision: Gets the company’s leaders 100% on the same page with where their business is going and how it is going to get there.
  • Traction: Leaders become more disciplined and accountable, executing really well to achieve every part of their vision.
  • Healthy: Leaders become a healthy, functional, & cohesive leadership team because unfortunately leaders don’t often function well as a team.  But when the leadership team becomes more healthy, so does the rest of the agency. 
• Practical tips:
  • an explanation of how to implement "Level 10 Meetings" - this meeting agenda radically improves meetings!
  • how to set "Rocks" (the 3-7 most important priorities) and gauge progress by quarter
  • how to build a significantly better version of your organization chart, called an "Accountability Chart"  
• How to find more resources. 
  • There is a book called "Traction" that provides even more detail about the EOS process and tools, so agencies can self-implement some or all of the EOS tools.  
  • Visit http://navigatethejourney.com/