Are you a business owner who loves the power Notion gives you to know what’s going on within your organization, or are you a technician who keeps the wheels from falling off in the face of rapid change? The combination of Notion’s power and flexibility are also its Achilles heel unless they can work together.
The Racecar Drivers: Business Owners
A racecar driver working with Notion can produce amazing results. In Rocket Fuel, authors Wickman and Winters call these people Visionaries. However, long-term success with Notion requires time, effort, and a willingness to climb a moderate learning curve. Stopping when things are “good enough” often comes at the expense of scalable systems. This struggle inhibits an owner’s ability to channel their vision into consistent, sustainable progress.
To mitigate that struggle, the Notion Marketplace (a.k.a. Resources, or Explore) offers thousands of templates for little or no cost. Unfortunately, there are so many templates available that the lack of curation means you can spend days looking for the right starting point to solve your problems.
For example, a search for OKR templates reveals more than 100 options in the marketplace, when only one goes the extra mile to add numeric results to what is being measured. You may need a gem like that, but the marketplace makes it almost impossible to find. Plus, you are more interested in running your business than scouring a poorly curated catalog of incomplete solutions.
Together, these challenges mean that the most clear-headed and well-funded executive can know what they want, where they are going, and still struggle. To achieve their goals effectively, they need a good mechanic.
The Mechanics: Certified Notion Consultants
These are the “Integrators” in Rocket Fuel. They understand Notion at a deep level, and can structure its elements (blocks) to produce almost any result. Yes, you could build a business system in Notion yourself, but you have to be willing to master more than 60 block types and learn how to put them together effectively.
Hiring a certified consultant pays for itself by getting you better results that scale with far less time and effort. Certified consultants can add the structure you need in order to establish order and predictability, while maintaining the flexibility to adapt to exceptions and changes in your business environment.
The most effective Notion systems – the ones adding undeniable business value – combine the drive and vision of a business owner with the technical chops of certified consultant.
Working with a certified Notion Consultant is the difference between building your racecar and driving it.
Ready to stop tinkering and start driving? Let’s talk – schedule a conversation with a Certified Notion Consultant.