This month on The Critical Path, we’re focusing on all of the little tweaks you can make to run a tighter ship. We talked about tasking, about compensation, and now we’re getting into the brass tacks of Organizational Mapping – the art/science of informing your teams of what they’re expected to do and how their responsibilities relate to one another. It’s vastly important, and often under-executed at the companies we have seen, so strap on your jetpacks and get ready for all of the details!
We talk about:
- Why Organizational Structure can be so challenging to sort out
- The Job Description
- The Responsibility Matrix
- Team Communication of the new documents
- Org Charts and hierarchical relationships
- Future Planning with Org Charts
- Our ‘Power Tool Super Hero’ origin stories
Also, I promised to put an example of a Responsibility Matrix here in the show notes, so you can see what we’re talking about:

Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS