The Minerva Method™ Playbook & Communications Drag™ Assessment | The Minerva Group
The Minerva Method™

One method. Every communications decision.

Whether you're building visibility for a founder or executive, clarifying the story behind a growing company, or solving Communications Drag inside an established communications team — everything Minerva does runs on the same operating system.

The Minerva Method™ is how we make sure every communications decision — whether the goal is visibility, clarity or strategy — is tied to a real business outcome, not just activity.

01

Clarify

Why?

02

Align

Who?

03

Shape

What?

04

Activate

Where?

05

Measure

So what?

Two Ways to Use the Method

Have Minerva do it, or do it yourself.

The same Minerva Method™, whether Minerva applies it with you or you apply it on your own.

Work With Minerva

Minerva applies the Method for you

  • The Visibility Blueprint for founders, executives and growing companies that want to get seen: a 30-minute discovery call, a visibility plan within 24 hours, then 30 days to put it to work
  • Strategy and advisory for new or established organizations that want senior outside judgment on a communications strategy or an ongoing decision
See the Visibility Blueprint
Do It Yourself

The Playbook

  • The Method as a self-guided system you run yourself, on your own timeline
  • A repeatable framework for turning requests into strategy: a 60-minute Fast Track or a 2–4 hour Full Method
  • $249, sent to your email after purchase
See the Playbook

Looking for strategy or advisory work? See all the ways to work with Minerva.

For Communications Leaders

When communications activity doesn't translate into business impact, something is getting lost.

Your team may be producing more content, launching more campaigns, managing more channels and responding to more requests than ever. But if that activity isn't clearly advancing a business priority, moving an audience or producing a meaningful outcome, you're experiencing Communications Drag™.

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DRAG™the cost of complexity

Communications Drag™ is the hidden cost created when communications activity grows faster than strategic clarity.

It shows up when time, money, talent and attention are consumed by communications work without a clear connection to what the business is trying to accomplish.

A product launch disconnected from the sales narrative. A festival activation that generates buzz but no measurable shift in brand perception. Agency spend drifting from current priorities.

When teams can't clearly articulate why they're communicating, who they're trying to move and what needs to change as a result, time, money, talent and attention get diluted instead of directed.

Most communications teams don't have an execution problem. They have a clarity problem.

Free 5-Minute Assessment

Where is Communications Drag showing up in your organization?

Before building another strategy, find out where your current communications system may be losing clarity.

Answer 12 questions to identify where time, money, talent and attention may be getting consumed by work without enough strategic clarity.

12 QUESTIONS · 5 MINUTES · IMMEDIATE RESULTS · FREE

For Communications Professionals

Want the framework for yourself?

The Minerva Method™ Playbook gives communications professionals a repeatable system for turning requests into strategy — the same discipline Minerva uses in every engagement, built for you to run yourself.

Spend a little more time deciding so you can spend a lot less time doing work that doesn't matter. The Method is designed to help you make the critical strategic decisions before committing significant time, money, talent and attention.

Fast Track

60 Minutes

For everyday communications challenges when speed matters.

  • 10 MINWHY — Define the business priority and intended change.
  • 10 MINWHO — Identify who needs to move.
  • 15 MINWHAT — Determine what they need to understand or believe.
  • 15 MINWHERE — Choose the 1–3 activities with the strongest case for investment.
  • 10 MINSO WHAT — Define the evidence that will tell you something changed.
Output: Draft One-Page Minerva Strategy™
Full Method

2–4 Hours

For high-stakes, complex or cross-functional communications challenges. Use the complete tools, exercises and AI Pressure Tests to build and defend each strategic decision.

  • 20–30 MINCLARIFY
  • 20–30 MINALIGN
  • 30–45 MINSHAPE
  • 20–30 MINACTIVATE
  • 20–30 MINMEASURE
Output: Complete One-Page Minerva Strategy™ + supporting strategic tools
This Playbook is a decision system, not an assignment. You don't need to complete every worksheet every time. Use the level of rigor the decision requires.
The Product

The Minerva Method™ Playbook

One challenge. Five questions. One defensible strategy.

The five decisions behind a clear communications strategy

$249 One-time purchase
  • ClarifyWHY are we doing this?

    Connect the communications request to a business priority and define the intended change.

  • AlignWHO needs to move?

    Identify the audience whose movement actually matters.

  • ShapeWHAT will move them?

    Build the narrative, messages and proof required to create that movement.

  • ActivateWHERE should we invest?

    Choose tactics based on relevance, influence, investment and opportunity cost.

  • MeasureSO WHAT changed?

    Define success before execution and connect communications outcomes back to the business.

Included

  • The Minerva Method™ Playbook
  • 60-Minute Fast Track
  • Strategic Communications Intake Brief™
  • Audience & Stakeholder Map™
  • Movement Statement™ Builder
  • Narrative Builder™
  • Message & Proof-Point Builder™
  • Minerva Impact Filter™
  • Prioritized Activation Plan™
  • Minerva Impact Scorecard™
  • One-Page Minerva Strategy™
  • Strategy Defense Checklist™
  • Minerva AI Pressure Test™ Library
  • Worked example
Get the Playbook — $249

Secure checkout via Stripe. Your Playbook will be sent to your email shortly after purchase.

Two Different Paths, Not Two Budgets

Which one is you?

The Playbook gives you the Method to run yourself. Minerva brings senior judgment, outside perspective and the capacity to apply it to the complexity of your actual business — for you.

The Playbook Is For You If:

 

  • You're a communications professional who wants to build this skill yourself
  • You want a repeatable framework you can use again and again
  • You have the time and internal mandate to facilitate the work
Get the Playbook
Work With Minerva Is For You If:

 

  • You want Minerva to do the work, not teach you how
  • You're a founder or executive who needs the outcome, not the workbook
  • The stakes or complexity call for senior outside judgment
  • You need visibility, narrative or strategy built and delivered, not self-guided
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