Slash the useless.
Find and slash what is useless and wasting people's time.
From gripe to fixed
Six steps from the first complaint to a lasting fix.
Log it
Log a practice from Slack, Teams or your phone. Slash asks how often it happens and how long it takes, then works out the hours a year. Your name stays off it.
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Everyone rates the practice on their own phone. The team sees all the ratings at once and starts with the ones where people disagree.
Decide the move
In one short session, the team picks the move: stop it, simplify it, change it, automate it or keep it. Then you agree who acts, your team or the person who owns the rule.
Prepare the change
Some moves need work before anything changes, like a new form or Finance's OK. Each task gets an owner and a date. Simple moves skip this step.
Try the new way
Run the change for 30 days, whether you stop the practice, shrink it or replace it. Before you start, the team agrees on the warning signs that would make you go back.
Lock it in
If the new way works, you lock it in and the hours count as won back. Stopping a practice for good is the best result. A simpler version counts too.
Who built it
Sacha has spent twenty-five years in HR, helping leaders and their organisations through the messy human side of work, across industries, geographies and business lifecycles.
He works where leadership, technology, the future of work and talent meet. Slash is one of his side projects. Trying things out is usually the only way to learn.
Start slashing.
Start with one team and one practice. Plan on about two months, or longer if the change needs work first.
See how it works