Newly Corporate

Newly Corporate was recently invited to join the US News and World Report Career Blog Network “Outside Voices“. This article is the first post written for the network blog. Each of the authors here at Newly Corporate will post on the blog in a rotating schedule, one post total each week.

We all have been through it at work. Some process or change you are driving requires sign off from what seems like every manager in your company. Even when your work is done, you have to chase people down (most often managers), process their feedback, and get them to click a button or sign on the line. Sometimes these processes just take time, people should talk things over and consider alternative options but, there are ways to speed up the feedback cycle and accelerate approvals. Here are three five I use to ensure quick approval and feedback processing:

1. Use a repeatable approval process. Yeah, I know this is basic, if your company already has one, great! If not, there is nothing more frustrating then getting to the end of your approvals and realizing you need to go to another approver or worse, add another document and go through the entire cycle again. Layout the process before you start, notify those involved and draw it out graphically without acronyms or abbreviations.

Read the rest of the post at Outside Voices…