Readiness Planning

Turn a reading into a period of work the people doing it own.

This is not training and not a scenario. It runs against your real capacity, with your real people, and what comes out of it is a commitment.

Builder Training Executive Diagnostics

What is here

6 surfaces, and what each one leaves you holding.

Quarterly Readiness Planning

a facilitated session

A quarter of committed work with an owner on every line, built against the conditions the diagnostic measured. The agenda and the scripts are published, so it can be run without us.

Written for: Senior manager, Senior leadership, C-suite

Cycle Planning

one to four weeks

The short loop inside the quarter: what this cycle commits to, what it deliberately is not doing, and which condition each commitment depends on.

Written for: Team contributor, Manager, Senior manager

The Readiness Workspace

The period in progress: commitments, the condition each one leans on, and what has moved.

Written for: Manager, Senior manager, Senior leadership

The Readiness Board

The visible state of the period, arranged so a condition at risk is legible before it is late.

Written for: Manager, Senior manager, Senior leadership

The Debrief

What the period actually taught, separated from what it delivered, and carried into the next one.

Written for: Manager, Senior manager, Senior leadership, C-suite

Facilitated Engagements

The four ways to run any of this with us in the room, and who has to be there.

Written for: Senior leadership, C-suite, Board member

Not built yet

What is missing here, and why it is missing.

Stated on the page rather than left blank. A roadmap kept private is how a gap becomes a surprise, and a reason written down is what stops the next version being the wrong one.

Board Oversight Cycle: The oversight calendar: what the board asks for each period, and what it does when the answer does not arrive.; A board does not plan the work, so an implementation surface for it is a rhythm of questions rather than a set of commitments. That is a real product and a different shape from the other two, and designing it on the assumption that a board plans like an operator is how governance theater gets built.; For: Board member

Coverage

Every level, three ways in

A diagnosis nobody was trained to read changes nothing, and training with no period of work behind it is a seminar. Each row is a seat in an organization; each column is one of the three things you can do from it.

Seat	Train	Diagnose	Implement
Board memberoversight, without operating authority	Board Oversight SimulationOne simulated year, 20 to 30 min Also open to everyone: Ardenwake, The Builder's Library, The Screening Room	Board Governance Readiness Diagnostic32 items Risk Capability Diagnostic Also open to everyone: Executive Organizational Diagnostic: Short Form	Facilitated Engagements Planned: Board Oversight Cycle
C-suitethe enterprise	The Readiness System5 modules, 45 lessons Mission Planning Lab20 to 30 min Also open to everyone: Ardenwake, The Builder's Library, The Screening Room	Executive Enterprise Readiness Diagnostic44 items Executive Organizational Diagnostic: Team40 items, ~20 min Risk Capability Diagnostic Operating Framework Fit Also open to everyone: Executive Organizational Diagnostic: Short Form	Quarterly Readiness Planninga facilitated session The Debrief Facilitated Engagements
Senior leadershipa function or a portfolio	The Readiness System5 modules, 45 lessons Mission Planning Lab20 to 30 min Readiness Under Pressure Also open to everyone: Ardenwake, The Builder's Library, The Screening Room	Function and Portfolio Readiness Diagnostic40 items Executive Organizational Diagnostic: Team40 items, ~20 min Risk Capability Diagnostic Operating Framework Fit Also open to everyone: Executive Organizational Diagnostic: Short Form	Quarterly Readiness Planninga facilitated session The Readiness Workspace The Readiness Board The Debrief Facilitated Engagements
Senior managerseveral teams, as one group	The Readiness System5 modules, 45 lessons Builder Leadership3 modules, 10 lessons Mission Planning Lab20 to 30 min Readiness Under Pressure Also open to everyone: Ardenwake, The Builder's Library, The Screening Room	Multi-Team Readiness Diagnostic40 items Executive Organizational Diagnostic: Team40 items, ~20 min Risk Capability Diagnostic Operating Framework Fit Also open to everyone: Executive Organizational Diagnostic: Short Form	Quarterly Readiness Planninga facilitated session Cycle Planningone to four weeks The Readiness Workspace The Readiness Board The Debrief
Managerone team and the people on it	The Readiness System5 modules, 45 lessons Builder Leadership3 modules, 10 lessons Readiness Under Pressure Also open to everyone: Ardenwake, The Builder's Library, The Screening Room Planned: One Team, One Quarter	Single-Team Readiness Diagnostic40 items Executive Organizational Diagnostic: Team40 items, ~20 min Also open to everyone: Executive Organizational Diagnostic: Short Form	Cycle Planningone to four weeks The Readiness Workspace The Readiness Board The Debrief
Team contributoron a team, without formal authority over it	Builder Leadership3 modules, 10 lessons Also open to everyone: Ardenwake, The Builder's Library, The Screening Room Planned: One Team, One Quarter	Builder Orientation Profile Also open to everyone: Executive Organizational Diagnostic: Short Form	Cycle Planningone to four weeks