Illustration of exploration and discovery representing the product design assessment journey

Hey Nick 3 from Canoe!

Thanks for sharing your perspective. We’ve crunched the numbers, connected the dots, and the results are ready. Time to see how your team stacks up in the wild.

Score

50

Tier 2: Aligning

You have real execution happening—but it isn't consistent enough to compound. The organisation is active, initiatives move, and there are pockets of strong delivery, yet progress varies depending on the leader, function, or programme. Priorities exist, but they don't reduce workload in a meaningful way, so people still experience overload and context switching. This often shows up as starting energy without enough finishing power: lots in motion, fewer outcomes fully landed. Decisions are a common friction point. Some decisions are made quickly, but key moments still bottleneck—especially when work crosses teams or touches shared resources. Teams can be unclear on decision rights or escalation paths, which creates hesitation, extra meetings, and delays. You may also see signals that systems and incentives are slightly out of tune: leaders are asking for new behaviours, but measurement, governance, or tooling isn't reliably reinforcing them. In this tier, your biggest win is alignment—turning scattered good practice into a simple, shared operating rhythm. Once you reduce overload, clarify a few decision rules, and remove one or two systemic contradictions, execution becomes noticeably smoother and faster without trying harder.

Over the next 90 days, three simple moves can make a real difference:

  1. Run a leadership Stop, Start, Stay session and publish a one-page execution focus for the next 90 days.
  2. Move two common decisions closer to the work, delegate them with clear guardrails and measure cycle-time improvement.
  3. Fix one system friction point, adjust one KPI/incentive and add one weekly outcome review ritual that reinforces the new behaviour.

Options to dive deeper with Canoe:

Execution reset sprint (2 weeks)
We'll zoom in on one critical initiative and pinpoint exactly where execution is leaking—priorities, decision latency, handoffs, and system friction.

You’ll get: a clear “stop / start / keep” focus, decision-rights map, and a 90-day execution plan your leadership team can run with.

Operating rhythm & accountability blueprint (3–4 weeks)
We'll help you install a lightweight execution system that makes progress repeatable: the few rituals, metrics, and behaviours that keep momentum without adding bureaucracy.

You’ll get: a simple operating cadence (weekly/monthly), role clarity and accountability, and a practical playbook that makes execution consistent across teams.

Book a short results review with Canoe
30 minutes. We walk through your score and share 1–2 tailored ideas. No strings attached.

Some free canvas resources to help you get started!

Align your project and move forward with purpose. Clarity drives action.
The GROW Canvas helps teams define success, understand their current reality, explore opportunities, and commit to meaningful next steps. An ideal canvas to build a backlog and implementing valuable change.
Unlock your team’s full potential!
Strong teams don’t just happen—they’re shaped by clarity, alignment, and shared understanding. The CORE Team Canvas helps teams articulate who they are, what they aim to achieve, and how they’ll work together to get there.
Understand and engage key stakeholders.
The persona canvas is designed to help product teams, understand and engage their key stakeholders. By visualising each stakeholder as a persona, teams build a shared understanding of who they’re working with and how best to involve them.
Make a plan
Great planning sets teams up for clarity, momentum, and impact. The Annual Planning Wheel makes it easy to map out the year ahead, breaking time into structured, intuitive chunks using week numbers widely used in Norway and Scandinavia.
Tina Grønnevik, Organisational Designer at Canoe

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Tina Grønnevik