Challenge
Remove one avoidable demand on staff
Whena repeated workload complaint is selected
Remove or reduce one low-value work demand with the people doing it, then check what changed.
- Window
- Two weeks.
- Mission steps
- Choose one demand and check who relies on it.
- Approve or obtain approval for a safe smaller version.
- Try it for one cycle; ask staff and users what changed.
- Finish
- Decide keep, revise or restore; tell everyone affected.
- Adapt
- Protect required checks. If change is refused, take the cost and options to the decision-maker.
Start tiny
Ask which repeated task could shrink or stop.
Evidence grade CPractitioner method or editorial idea
Health and Safety Executive, Management Standards: Demands. Read the source ↗ Work demands should be achievable within agreed hours. This manager trade-off procedure is an editorial adaptation, not a trial-tested intervention.
Challenge: A bounded mission with an observable finish, supported by the practices you use.
