What is your MVP?

Inspired by several delightful collaboration opportunities, I was prompted to revisit my Macker Value Proposition:

  • I make complex concepts easy to understand and simple to apply.
  • I help teams unlock their creative potential.
  • I am a skilled diagnostician of team stress and tension and how to harness it for maximum creative advantage.
  • I introduce teams to the keys to breakthrough that will propel them forward instead of spinning their wheels.
  • I show leaders and teams how their thinking and communication styles can spark or derail breakthroughs.
  • I teach teams how to identify the stressors that lead to unhealthy conflict and turn it into positive momentum.
  • I provide teams with a mindset, skillset, and toolset for effective collaboration that leads to breakthrough outcomes.
  • I provide leaders with a snapshot of their organizational culture based on team makeup. Then I show leaders how to engage teams in ways that promote creativity, risk-taking, and breakthrough results.
  • I equip organizations with a three-fold toolset that ensures teams focus on doing the work right while doing the right work.
  • I help organizations discover and maximize their "art of the possible" by helping them build restless reinvention into their culture.

If condensed into an elevator pitch: I make organizations better by helping their teams abandon a "superhero" culture in favor of an agility mindset.

All MVPs are a first pass at empirically inspecting and adapting. And since the best way to discover one's value proposition is to ask those to whom s/he provides value, I share my MVP to pose two questions:

  1. If we have collaborated, where and how have I added value?
  2. What's your MVP?

In the spirit of transparency, I welcome your inspection and mutual adaptation.

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