9 to 5 Wellness
Do you have the knowledge you need to help your organization get the best return on the time and capital invested in employee wellbeing? Are you a busy professional or C-suite leader looking to introduce wellbeing program at your work?
Discover the art and science of helping organizations grow their most important resource, their people. In this podcast we discuss how organizations can utilize the potential of wellbeing programs to deliver high return on investment (ROI) to employers. We talk about the radical impact that holistic employee wellbeing programs can have on overall quality of work and productivity. We will be sharing insights on investing in human capital. Such as:
🌟 What has helped their organizations gain a competitive advantage?
🌟 How they see the future of employee wellbeing?
🌟 Misunderstandings that are out in the corporate market today
🌟 Advice to other leaders to create a happier, healthier, and more productive workplace
Our guests are C-suite leaders, and wellness innovators across the value chain: HR managers, wellness champions, community wellbeing ambassadors, service vendors, and wellness consultants.
9 to 5 Wellness
Workplace Wellness - Lack of Process Visibility
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
Did you know that 86% of executives and employees link company failure to lack of process visibility and clear roles for team members?
This episode explains how to implement workplace strategies for process transparency.
You'll learn how to decrease:
workflow confusion
Duplicated work
Hidden bottlenecks
Micromanagement
Stress & burnout
Delayed projects
Revenue loss
🌟 🌟 🌟 If you liked this episode and would like to learn more about wellness training and workshops offered by 9 to 5 Wellness, email us at info@aeshathair.com. You can learn more about our programs at: https://toneandstrengthen.com/workshops-trainings/. 🌟 🌟 🌟
My passion is helping organizations create a culture of wellness, and I do this by setting up health programs that prioritize the most important asset they've got – their employees. Cheers to a healthier and happier journey ahead!
🌟 🌟 🌟 You can learn more about ME- the host at https://www.aeshatahir.com
Follow me on IG and LI to learn more
Welcome to the Nine to Five Wellness Podcast, a show about corporate wellness solutions with innovators and forward-thinking leaders who are at the forefront of the workplace wellness movement. I'm your host, Aisha Tahir.
Welcome to episode number 115 of the Nine to Five Wellness Podcast. How are you guys doing? I am doing fabulous. Because I'm still on a high from my run on Saturday morning, I ran a tempo six mile run on Saturday morning. The weather was just fabulous. It was 57 degrees. Sun was shining here in Pennsylvania and. I dunno. I could have just gone and ran all day. It was so good. Hopefully we'll have another Saturday like that coming up soon, so I hope you enjoyed your weekend too. Our episode today is related to implementing workplace strategies regarding process transparency. The reason I wanna talk about this is because in my experience at work myself, and also when I go and consult other forms for wellbeing strategies and implementing wellness strategies, I've noticed that this is an issue at most workplaces, and I'm not the only one who feels like that.
Research shows that 86% of executives and employees believe a lack of collaboration is the main reason behind company failure. So from this, it's easy to see how an entire company feels more connected when everyone is working with the same vision and information.
Today we are talking about one of the most significant silent killers of productivity, a lack of workflow transparency. Imagine you're running a marathon since I'm a runner. For me, running analogies just come naturally. Now imagine you're doing it blindfolded, and for some reason your teammates are blindfolded too, and you're all supposed to cross the finish line together, holding hands.
How does that sound to you? Sounds like a disaster, right? Yet this is exactly how many of the companies operate on a daily basis. That's what makes process transparency so crucial to organizational success. Studies show that organizations with more transparent processes help enhance collaboration, increase engagement, and improve productivity.
So if your company lacks process visibility, you're not providing transparency in the workplace, then you run the risk of losing valuable employees. When employees are in the dark about who is doing what, when it's due, or how their work fits into the big picture, they stop moving forward. They get stuck in a loop of.
I thought you were doing that, or I'm waiting on an approval, but I don't know where it is. Oh, why didn't you finish this? And I have seen this happen again and again and again, like right in front of my eyes when I'm consulting with big organizations. So a lack of visibility isn't just about missing a file or losing an email thread.
It creates severe. Compounding problems such as confusion and reduced efficiency. Employees waste time looking for information or duplicating work. It also leads to hidden bottlenecks. Tasks pile up behind a single bottleneck leading to massive unexpected delays. And stress and burnout of team workers is so common because of this.
When employees don't know where they stand, this leads to burnout and a lack of trust. So let's take a closer look at the anatomy of working in the dark where nobody knows who's supposed to do what.
What it actually looks like on the ground is that it often starts with process friction. You know it when an email thread goes too long, when project status lives only in someone's. Mostly your manager's head, or when you have to jump between five different apps to get to one answer, hidden bottlenecks are the worst culprits.
Think of a project where everything depends on one manager's approval. If that manager is on vacation or overloaded, there's no dashboard to show the delay. The whole team grinds to a halt,
and it's not your manager's fault without a clear, centralized system, they can't track progress. They're reduced to constantly asking what's the status of the project, which is the definition of micromanagement, even if they don't want to be micromanagers, who wants to be a micromanager and who wants to be micromanaged, right?
I think no one, this is especially dangerous for hybrid or remote teams. When you lose the hallway chat, that casual, Hey, did you finish that report? Information gets siloed. A team in Miami might be blocked by a decision made in New York and nobody knows until the deadline has already passed. So that's what it looks like on the ground.
So what's the real cost of this? It's not just annoying. It's also responsible for delayed projects and broken trust when deadlines slip because of hidden issues, trust breaks down not just internally, but with important clients too. It leads to reduced quality of work in a rush to make up for lost time caused by a hidden bottleneck.
Teams skip steps leading to poor quality work, and most importantly, it leads to loss of revenue. We don't want that. No, we don't. Every day a project is delayed. Companies lose money. It makes your company less. It makes your company less competitive. It makes your company less competitive. Ultimately, a lack of transparency is a form of cultural toxicity that often gets overlooked.
Employees want to succeed, but if they are constantly battling a broken, opaque system, they feel. Disconnected and disempowered. Okay, so that's all well and good now that we understand what it looks like on the ground and the cost of it.
So how do we fix it? The solution is to turn the lights on and make the process visible, and how can we do that? It's not about buying more software. A lot of times I'm working with these companies and they're like, maybe we should install this software or maybe we should buy this software.
No, that's not gonna help. The most important thing to do is to map and visualize workflows. Use a shared document and calendar to manage projects easy. You can do this. In any of the apps nowadays with Microsoft Outlook, you can do it in Google, you can do it in so many other workplace softwares like you don't need extra software for that.
So everyone can see their role and what progress has been made. Because if you have a shared Google doc or you have a shared calendar. You can easily update it as you do the work. The key is to document every step of your process using flowcharts to make task, movement, and handoffs transparent to everyone ensuring team alignment.
Another important measure is to define clear roles and accountabilities. Move beyond job titles to define specific documented responsibilities and performance standards. Regularly review these to ensure they align with current team goals. Also establish transparent decision ownership. Clearly designate who holds the authority to make decisions at each workflow stage, to eliminate bottlenecks and empower employees. And there's no such thing as overcommunication. I said that it's good to embrace radical over communication, especially in a remote setting.
If you aren't over communicating, you're not communicating enough. Use public channels like Slack rather than private dms and encourage, don't hide it, share it even when you make a mistake. That is key to open communication and to owning what's going on. Create a culture where feedback is encouraged.
Use regular check-ins to verify that workflows are understood and that responsibilities are being met. You also need to. Periodically audit your processes. Take an hour with your team to map out how a project moves from start to finish and get them involved.
Ask them, where does this stall? What information do you constantly have to hunt down By making workflows visible in defining roles, clearly you can reduce redundancy and improve productivity.
Here are a few takeaways from this episode. You cannot fix what you cannot see. Task visibility is empowerment. It gives your team the context they need to make the decisions, to collaborate effectively and to feel secure in their work.
Improve organizational efficiency by increasing workplace process visibility clearly. Define document, and visually map roles. Workflows and decision making authority to eliminate bottlenecks and confusion. You can empower your teams with transparent, accessible processes and open communication to ensure consistent accountability, alignment with goals, and faster execution.
Remember. Clarity drives productivity, and productivity drives success.
Thanks for listening . If you enjoyed this, share it with a colleague who is currently fighting with an email thread.
Until next time, keep your workflows in the light. Bye.
If you like this show today, please share it with your friends and family members and don't forget to subscribe to our show so that you can get fresh episodes every week.
