Crafting Clear Problem Statements to Spur Action
Understanding and crafting clear problem statements is crucial for any professional looking to drive meaningful action and results. Whether you're an innovator in a corporate environment, a startup founder, or a catalyst in a mission-driven organization, the ability to pinpoint and articulate the core of a problem is the first step towards effective solution-finding.
Using this step-by-step approach to write motivating problem statements will serve your problem-solving goals:
- Focus and Clarity: Reduce complexity by honing in on the essence of the challenge.
- Enhanced Collaboration: Foster understanding and alignment across teams.
- Targeted Solutions: Direct resources and efforts towards actionable and strategic solutions.
By learning to formulate clear and compelling problem statements, you lay the groundwork for impactful innovation and streamlined problem-solving processes. This skill empowers you to not only address symptoms but also tackle the root causes with precision and creativity.
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Who It’s For?
This training is tailored for:
- Innovators and Leaders seeking to sharpen their strategic thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
- Catalysts for change aiming to build empathy and support for target beneficiaries.
- Project Managers and Product Managers who need to define project scopes and guide teams efficiently.
- Entrepreneurs who must quickly identify and communicate the challenges their startups aim to solve.
If you often find yourself overwhelmed by complex issues or need a structured way to approach innovation, mastering the art of crafting problem statements is for you.
How It Works
Our experienced coach guides you through each step, giving you direct feedback on your work and helping you develop innovation as a core competency. You will use your own projects to ensure that the theory is immediately applied to real-world scenarios.
Real Projects
Get individual feedback on your real projects.
Focused Guidance
Develop new skills with a small cohort and direct coaching.
Interactive Sessions
Run live exercises with an expert coach during our weekly sessions.
Materials & Frameworks
Get self-study learning materials and frameworks.
What You Learn
Participants will gain:
- Effective Problem Identification: Learn to distinguish between symptoms and root causes.
- Strategic Thinking: Enhance your ability to think critically about challenges and opportunities.
- Communication Skills: Improve your clarity in communication, making it easier to lead teams and persuade stakeholders.
Dissect problems and create clear, actionable statements. Outcomes include:
- Greater Project Efficiency: Streamline project initiation and planning phases.
- Improved Decision-Making: Base decisions on well-defined and understood problems.
- Enhanced Innovation: Unlock new opportunities by clearly defining what needs to be solved.
Designed by Successful Entrepreneurs and Experts
Tristan Kromer
Tristan Kromer works with innovation teams and leaders to create amazing products and build startup ecosystems. He has worked with companies from early stage startups with zero revenue to enterprise companies with >$1B USD revenue (Unilever, Swisscom, Salesforce, Fujitsu, LinkedIn).
Megan Wilder
Megan is an Innovation Coach and Process Designer. She brings ten years of experience in project management and consulting - analyzing data, solving problems, and communicating with stakeholders. Her key strengths lie in providing design solutions that balance both the business and user needs.
Testimonials
Kromatic’s hands-on introduction to Lean Startup and its guiding principles was a complete wake-up call for my startup, forcing us to launch our MVP and learn fast.
Ryan Bruels, Vice President of Engineering, Knock
Kromatic’s workshop was incredibly engaging and interactive. Every detail was carefully thought out, from the design-thinking approach to clear and visually engaging material.
Kathryn Haydon, Innovation Strategist, Sparkitivity
It helped to think through a new lens on how to measure the middle space between initial vanity metrics and long-term revenue/product results.
Kyle Smith, Senior Manager, American Family Insurance
Rigorous is a great word to describe Kromatic. The pace is fast and intense. It’s part of their ethos that you need to learn and fail quickly.
Brendan Sheehan, Chief Financial Officer, CBUSA
Our coach helped us to identify the most important steps to take, and we always had a clear objective and action plan at the end of a conversation.
James Bryce Smith, Founder, Magnetize
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