Pivot or Persevere Decisions
Making the right decision between pivoting or persevering can dramatically steer the course of your innovation journey. Understanding when to pivot and when to persevere is not just about avoiding failureāit's about strategically adapting to ensure success and sustainability. This skill is essential for anyone looking to thrive in industries that demand agility and foresight.
- Recognize When to Pivot: Learn to identify the signs that your current path may not be leading to the desired outcome and discover how to pivot effectively, minimizing risks and reallocating resources towards more promising opportunities.
- Master Perseverance: Understand the key factors that signal when to stay the course, optimizing your efforts and resources to maximize potential success without stagnating.
- Confidently Steer Decisions: By mastering this skill, you equip yourself with the ability to make proactive, informed decisions that can lead to significant competitive advantages and increased operational efficiency.
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Who It’s For?
This training is designed for decision-makers and leaders who face strategic choices about their project or product directions:
- Product Managers and Team Leaders responsible for delivering project outcomes under uncertainty.
- Entrepreneurs and Innovators in high-stakes environments where each decision can pivot the business's future.
- Senior Executives who need to safeguard ROI while fostering innovation.
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 a deep understanding of both the strategic framework and the practical applications of deciding when to pivot and when to persevere (and when to take the two other options), including:
- Strategic Decision-Making Tools: Learn frameworks that help evaluate the current progress against expected outcomes and decide the next steps logically and strategically.
- Risk Assessment Techniques: Understand how to assess risks and potential rewards associated with pivoting versus persevering.
- Real-World Applications: Follow the tactical steps and apply this pivot or persevere approach to successfully navigate pivotal decisions, using actionable insights from your real project.
Specifically, you will be equipped to:
- Apply the āPivot or Persevereā framework to real scenarios within your organization.
- Use data-driven insights to support your strategic decisions.
- Enhance your leadership and decision-making skills in contexts of uncertainty.
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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