Operations: Processes & SOPs
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How to redesign your team meeting cadence for a remote small team
Layla at ProcessDriven
July 14, 2023
Processes & SOPs
9
Management
7
- Weekly all-hands meetings silently rot into status-report slogs
- One-on-ones have the highest ROI — cut everything else first
- Remove managers from performance reviews to unlock honest feedback
Five steps to manage tasks in a physical storefront
Layla at ProcessDriven
July 7, 2023
Processes & SOPs
9
Delegation
6
Productivity & habits
5
- Why physical stores skip task systems — and how to fix it
- One assignee per task prevents the finger-pointing accountability gap
- The ritual — not the tool — determines whether the system actually sticks
How decoupling yourself from your business increases exit value
Startups For the Rest of Us
June 27, 2023
Processes & SOPs
9
Exit strategy
7
Business models
5
- SOPs fail not because owners skip them, but employees never use them.
- Jodie Cook turned a 60% earn-out offer into 100% cash at close.
- In-context video SOPs triggered inside the software employees actually use.
Project management
YouTube
Agile vs waterfall project management: when to use each and how to set up SmartSuite
Layla at ProcessDriven
June 23, 2023
Project management
10
Processes & SOPs
7
- Agile iterates in sprints; waterfall plans everything upfront — most teams need both.
- Story points use Fibonacci scale for relative effort, not time estimates.
- Bug tracking and ideas backlog are worth stealing even without full agile adoption.
Automation & tools
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How one creator organises her entire life and business in Notion
Silicon Valley Girl
June 22, 2023
Automation & tools
9
Processes & SOPs
7
AI tools & automation
5
- One workspace replaces Asana, Docs, and every scattered note app
- Delegation system lets new assistants inherit full context instantly
- AI Autofill keeps project summaries updated without manual effort
Building a strong COO-CEO relationship in the first 90 days
Cameron Herold
June 11, 2023
Processes & SOPs
9
Management
8
Long-term planning
6
- Observe for 30 days — write everything down, change nothing.
- Small, visible wins in month three build lasting credibility.
- CEO trust grows through genuine friendship, not just alignment.
Five tactics to make any business process more efficient
Layla at ProcessDriven
June 2, 2023
- Context switching costs more time than most people realise
- Silent approval clauses prevent client stalemates from killing momentum
- Incentive alignment beats process redesign for changing team behaviour
Automation & tools
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Visualising loan workload and processor performance in ClickUp dashboards
Layla at ProcessDriven
May 19, 2023
Automation & tools
8
Processes & SOPs
6
- Why one dashboard widget can't show workload by office and processor simultaneously
- Formula fields that flag whether loans closed early or late
- Nested IF functions with emojis replace ClickUp's missing conditional formatting
The four types of pay periods and which works best
HR Party of One
May 16, 2023
- Bi-weekly beats semi-monthly for most teams — here's why
- 26 vs 24 paychecks: the difference employers often overlook
- Payroll schedules should be chosen deliberately, not inherited
How teams can stop drowning in work using the CPR framework
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
May 15, 2023
Processes & SOPs
9
Automation & tools
6
Deep work & focus
5
- Only 50% of work time goes to actual skilled work — here's why.
- One channel hierarchy eliminates the daily communication scavenger hunt.
- Meetings have a calculable dollar cost most leaders never look at.
Why overhead — not workload — is causing knowledge worker burnout
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
May 15, 2023
Processes & SOPs
8
Productivity & habits
7
Delegation
5
- Emails and meetings — not actual tasks — are what makes workers feel overloaded
- Overhead grows super-linearly: two tasks create far more than twice the coordination cost
- Doing fewer things at once raises total output — workload management beats faster tools
How to build a standardised employee termination process
HR Party of One
May 11, 2023
Processes & SOPs
9
Compliance & regulation
7
Management
6
- One termination checklist cannot cover both voluntary and involuntary exits.
- The manager fires; HR's job is to manage the room, not deliver the news.
- Document the process in a manager's manual before the next termination arrives.
Seven ways to control technical debt in a SaaS codebase
Rob Walling
May 7, 2023
Processes & SOPs
9
Tech stack & software
5
- Technical debt can cancel a multi-million dollar acquisition.
- Test-driven development forces better code architecture by design.
- Housekeeping tickets turn ad-hoc shortcuts into a managed debt load.
Managing brand sponsorships as a small YouTuber using ClickUp
Layla at ProcessDriven
April 21, 2023
Processes & SOPs
9
Influencer & partnerships
6
Prospecting & outreach
5
- Treat sponsorships as a service — with a CRM and pipeline
- Screen every brand across audience fit, product, and logistics
- Modular contracts and templated emails make the whole process delegable
Five steps to define workflows and connect SOPs in SmartSuite
Layla at ProcessDriven
April 12, 2023
Processes & SOPs
9
Automation & tools
6
- Four ways to represent process phases — pick by complexity, not power
- Checklists support assignees and defaults; sub items do not
- Five methods to attach SOPs, each suited to different process volumes