It started with one employee. She was spending an hour every week compiling a report no one enjoyed making and few people liked reading. It was complex. It was manual. And no one had questioned it in years.
She did.
Instead of quietly continuing, she brought it up in a morning enhancement meeting: “Could we automate this?”
Within a few days, that report was running itself. One click, every Friday morning. Done.
Not a game-changer on its own. But here’s what happened next.
Other employees started noticing their own time drains. Weekly report. Manual follow-up. Redundant approvals. People spoke up. And one by one, they began reclaiming hours. Not because management told them to—but because they saw it was possible.
This is how cultures change: not through dramatic overhauls, but through small wins that prove to everyone that improvement is real—and possible at any level.
Is there someone on your team right now doing work that could be handled in seconds—if only they had permission to ask the question? “Why are we still doing it this way?” might be the most valuable sentence in your company.