TOOLKIT TOPIC

Embrace Simplification

Reclaim your time with tools for simplification.

Toolkit includes

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32.02 minutes of on-demand video

5 downloadable resources

Learner level

Individual Contributor, Team Leader

Who this is for

This toolkit is tailored for team leaders and individuals burdened by overcomplex procedures and processes, wanting to improve productivity and efficiency in their daily work.

Toolkit overview

 Instead of drowning in unnecessary complexity, embrace simplification. You’ll leverage simplification tools to cut through the clutter, streamline processes, and focus on what truly matters.

This toolkit offers actionable techniques to reduce unnecessary complexity, which stifles efficiency and creativity. You’ll learn to articulate simplification goals with the 'Simplicity Vision Statement' technique, create a supportive culture of simplicity, and identify key simplification traits with the 'What Makes a Simplifier’ tool. You'll also gain strategies to eliminate low-value tasks and focus efforts on high-impact activities. You'll make simplification a core component of your professional life, enhancing productivity and focus.

Toolkit outcomes

  • Inspire a culture of simplification by adopting simplification behaviors

  • Concretely measure the effectiveness of simplification efforts

  • Reduce complexity and its impact by challenging the status quo

  • Simplify daily work and make space for the work that matters

What you’ll learn

  • Identify simplification behaviors using the 'What Makes a Simplifier' tool, and communicate which ones to embrace across the organization

  • Set clear simplification goals with the 'Simplicity Vision Statement' technique

  • Ask provocative questions to challenge assumptions around processes, discover key areas of complexity, and simplify

  • Kill complexity by evaluating your daily tasks and eliminating low-value work 

Skills you’ll develop