What you'll learn

Improve team clarity and task ownership

Align work with objectives and key results (OKRs)

Improve project forecasting

See team member workload and load balance projects

Reduce the stress of work

Reduce disorganization and chaos

Requirements

A Notion account

Basic Notion experience (creating pages, typing)

Description

Overwhelmed at how to use Notion to manage your business and projects? This course is the answer!

Do you sometimes feel like

the tools you use don't fit how your business runs

you and your team work on tasks that aren't aligned with your goals

it's difficult to see progress and next steps

there it too much information, and you don't know how best to organize it

you lack the big picture of how all the pieces are working together

Do you feel like your team

doesn't understand your current goals

has too many meetings or frustrating conversations

works without clear processes

doesn't document their work effectively

has meetings that don't produce clear outcomes

talks a lot, but doesn't get things done.

And, you've experienced projects that

failed while spending a lot of money

weren't profitable

built spreadsheets and detailed plans that ended up being completely wrong

tried different project management systems, and people, and still didn't accomplish what you need

lacked clear processes to minimize risk

I've been there too, and it's frustrating!

But then, we stumbled on Notion. Over the last 1.5 years we've been using Notion as our main system to manage our business. Over that time, we've continually improved our process and system. This course represents the best practices we've learned.

In this course, you'll learn:

The A-to-Z System of Configuring Notion to Work with Teams

Organizing core systems into shared databases

How to connect the dots between tasks, actions, projects, and team members

How to connect tasks to higher level objectives and goals (OKRs)

Using projects and timelines to manage your overall processes, without having to upgrade your Notion account.

Simpler, Distributed Team-based Project Management

Manage projects and products with assigned tasks in sprints.

Each person on the team needs to know what to do now. And, next.

Track tasks assigned to others in one place (GTD waiting for) and get regular updates.

Manage large tasks with epics.

Manage deliverables across time zones and geography.

Managing Backlogs, Sprints, and Velocity

Each week, schedule jobs-to be-done (JTBD) in Sprints. Each task gets 1 point.

Velocity rolls up automatically for real-time dashboards for project, key results, and company metrics.

Team members still do a velocity reports. But, those reports are to reflect on their own work over the sprint. Reflect, plan, then improve.

Visualizing Progress with OKRs and Realtime Status Reports

Roll up the current status of work against business objectives.

Track progress against key results, and in real-time.

Manage knowledge so that we can scale as our team grows without creating more work for ourselves.

With Notion and this course, you can build this all in one solution. Get more done, and do it together.

Who this course is for:

Entrepreneurs

Startups

Team project managers