JTBD Toolkit/Applying the Core Process (November 2025)

  • $859

Applying the Core Process: a JTBD mini-course

  • Started Nov 10 at 11:00 AM EST

Make customer-led innovation accessible to your whole team with a solid foundation in Jobs to Be Done, a simple, proven approach to find opportunities for growth and bring focus to your team. Go from insight to action in less than a few weeks with lightweight qualitative research in this remote workshop.


Monday, Wednesday, Friday

November 10, 12, 14

11:00AM-1:00PM (Eastern Time-New York)

Jobs to Be Done is a great approach to quickly shift your perspective to see from the customer's point of view.

In Applying the Core Process: A JTBD Mini-course, JTBD experts Jim Kalbach, author of the JTBD Playbook, and Elaine Matthias walk you through the entire JTBD framework from beginning to end using activities, demonstrations, scenarios, and group discussion to help you see the process from a bird's eye view, giving you the skills and tools to run your own JTBD workshop.

What's in the mini-course?

  1. Learn how to run the complete JTBD process from beginning to end

  2. See how JTBD can help you make customer-informed decisions to differentiate your work in the marketplace.

  3. Find out how to pinpoint strategic opportunities and make that insight actionable. 

  4. Build connections and network with people who are facing similar challenges while interacting directly with our instructors. 

This mini-course combines live workshops and team activities with self-paced work. Our live sessions will be supplemented with thinking prompts, readings and online conversations throughout the course.Using the JTBD Hypothesis Canvas, this workshop will show you how to get started with JTBD where ever you are at in your work.

What this course covers

Course Curriculum

Over the course of three days, we'll show you how to get started with Jobs to Be Done in your work.

Day 0

Pre-Reading

Self-paced Learning

  • Jobs Theory introduction, background and key concepts

  • Research methods for JTBD and the JTBD Hierarchy

  • JTBD Hypothesis Canvas and instructions

Day 1

Monday, Nov. 10

Scoping

  • Frame the focus job

  • Develop JTBD hypotheses

  • Conduct research

  • Exercises and discussion

Day 2

Wednesday, Nov. 12

Discover

  • JTBD Surveys

  • Techniques to engage your team

  • Pinpoint opportunities using JTBD

  • Exercises and discussion

Day 3

Friday, Nov. 12

  • Write job stories

  • Spin insights into action

  • Integrate JTBD insights into your workflow

  • Exercises and discussion

After the workshop you should be able to...


  • Scope a main job, conduct jobs interviews, and extract key elements of JTBD
  • Build a valid job map based on research
  • Use a job map to facilitate conversations with your team to agree on opportunities to pursue together
  • How to integrate your work into other methods and processes, like Design Thinking, Lean, and Agile

You should know

The minimum time commitment outside of the live session is less than two hours in total.

Enjoying a remote #jtbd workshop run by  @JimKalbach and  @ElaineMatthias (following the release of Jim's book 'the jobs to be done playbook') right now. 

Well-prepared, smoothly run, and packed with practical advice. 
Worth every cent, thanks!

Paul Kotz

Meet your In

Jim Kalbach

Author of The JTBD Playbook; Co-Founder, JTBD Toolkit


Jim is a leading voice in the field of JTBD. Author of The Jobs to be Done Playbook and Co-founder of the JTBD Toolkit, Jim has 20+ years of experience helping major technology companies and startups achieve better product-market fit. He is currently Chief Evangelist at Mural, the leading online whiteboard. 

Elaine Matthias

Co-founder, JTBD Toolkit

Elaine Matthias is a Design Strategist with experience in helping organization’s align their innovation efforts across silos. She has 15 years of product and web design experience with corporate, agency, non-profit and start-up design teams. She co-chaired Interaction22 and served as president of NYC UXPA from 2014-2016.

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