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The Power of Process Documentation: Taking Your Role to New Heights In the drive for excellence within a role, one overlooked element is process documentation. Processes are not just administrative tasks, but powerful catalysts that elevate the quality of our work and foster continuous improvement through structure, clarity, and efficiency in daily tasks and overarching […]
Communication Plans: What It Is & Why It’s Important In our experience, communication plans are an overlooked element of a change management process or new process or system rollout. All of this work and all of these incredible new features and benefits, but no one knows about it! A communication plan is integrated throughout […]
Actionable How-Tos: Bringing Empathy into Leadership Leadership styles, rightfully so, are continuously under scrutiny. We spend as much time – if not more – with business leaders than we do with our own families. In our work, we’ve run the gamut of various leadership styles. One quality stands out time and time again as […]
2023 Workplace Trends That Are Here to Stay As the new year begins, we’re poised to reflect upon how the workplace has continued to shift. 2022 was a year of playing catch up. 2023 was about asking ourselves if the solid ground we’re working to rebuild is what we really want – and need. The […]
Operational Procedures: The Key To Solve A Scarcity Mindset Are you operating with a scarcity mindset? If the answer is yes – you’re not alone. If the answer is no…perhaps you can’t be so sure. It’s taken hold of so many of us as we have become a siloed and digitally driven workforce. And let’s […]
Processes and Systems: The Solution to Your Stealth Employee Expectations “Disappointment is unmet expectations. The more significant the expectations, the more significant the disappointment.” -Brene Brown In her most recent book, Brene Brown discusses the type of expectations found in her work: expectations that are unexamined and unexpressed – stealth expectations – and examined and […]
Workplace Boundaries: Cultivating Meaningful and Lasting Success Boundary setting is more than work-life integration. As a workplace and society, we are more anxious, more distracted, and sleeping far less than recommended to live a healthy and fulfilling life. So, what’s it going to take to turn this car around and fix it? The solution: Boundaries. […]
Kindness: The Natural Process and System Integrator Kindness in the workplace is nothing short of transformative. Becoming a leader in workplace kindness is revolutionary in this day and age, and ensures your organization stands out from the rest. Kindness is incredibly motivating, and cultivates loyalty amongst employees. We’ve seen it time and time again with […]
Workplace Curiosity: The Overlooked Ingredient of Efficient Process Work So much of our work here at Poka-Yoke Solutions centers around cultivating workplace curiosity. After observing thousands of employees across various industries and sectors of the workforce, it’s astonishing that 95% of employees never question what they’re doing. Perhaps they complain and are disgruntled about what […]
Employee Engagement: Techniques to Jump Start Your Synergy Keeping employees engaged is like keeping the wheels of a car moving forward. Without employee engagement, everything comes to a screeching halt. And while we’re on the metaphor, imagine how well your company would run if employees feel motivated, appreciated, and engaged? A speeding car headed towards […]
