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How to Use a Workflow Mapping Template to Streamline Your Business

Whether you're a business owner, manager or consultant, a workflow mapping template can help you streamline your business operations. It will give you insight into how your team performs tasks, how to improve processes and record deliverables.

Workflow mapping can be done on a pen and paper or with a drawing tool. If you're using a pen, use different colors to distinguish events, transactions and tasks. For example, you can color code ovals to represent the start and end of a process.

You can also use a flowchart template. These templates can be used to show clients how your proposed system will work. They can be customized to meet your needs.

The template is organized by stages, and it's designed to help you identify and address common process errors. A flowchart can help you understand your business better, and can save you time in the long run.

Creating a map can make your team more effective. It can help you understand the logic behind a process, detect problems and redundancies, and find workarounds.

To create a process map, start by gathering input from all stakeholders. Ask people to brainstorm on the process. This will help you identify the best way to move forward. Next, select a process that isn't performing as it should.

Once you've chosen a process to map, create a detailed list of everyone involved. Ensure that you get all the relevant input on the flow of the process.

Also Read : common process errors

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How to Create a Workflow Template for Google Docs

Getting a workflow for Google Docs is a great way to improve efficiency. These tools automate common processes, and can save you time and effort.

The workflow is a fancy name for the process of shepherding a document from one recipient to the next. It may be used to streamline a purchase order requisition, for example. A document workflow allows you to create a sequential process for data, with an optional due date and custom message. The best part is that it's free to create.

The best workflow for Google Docs might be something you created yourself, or one that you're able to implement through the help of an app. For example, the Collavate Add-on for Google Sheets lets you set up an electronic approval workflow directly from your Google Sheets file.

Other tools allow you to visualize workflows, such as the LucidChart add-on. The add-on integrates with your Google account, and lets you insert charts into your files. You can also embed charts into spreadsheets, and even embed them in Google Docs.

Another tool that can help you visualize a workflow is the Shapes tool. This option is located in the drawing toolbar. This tool can be used to create flowcharts, but it's also a useful tool for creating useful charts. It lets you choose from different shapes. Among its features are a boxed "T" icon and a circle and square icon.

Other tools, like the Google Keep add-on, let you collect digital information. The tool can be accessed through the Add-ons menu in Google apps. It also gives you the ability to set reminders.

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Backgrounds for "Everything Moves MAP" part 18 (Martyn's birthday)

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fellas, would it be gay to use ego to shelter another man from the rain? to protect him from the world that hurt him?? to make a place for him to call home???

Lantern Gregor provides a safe place for Telepole Heathcliff to come back to for some rest and recovery. Heathcliff fights anyone who gets to close to where Gregor grows that could hurt him. They chat while Heathcliff hides from the rain.

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TWINNING

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Hello everyone, I contributed art to two games for the recent Touhou Game Jam 13, get them from the links below!

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finished another comm of this guy (client's oc) wahoo!!!!

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hes rigged and working! B)

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You Get The Chicken By Hatching The Egg Not By Smashing It

In August of 2014, an event 30 years in the making occurred at the Hammersmith Apollo in London. The last time Kate Bush performed live on stage was back in 1979, so you can imagine the thrill when die-hard Bush fans heard the news in March of 2014 when she announced to the world her intent to perform live, rewarding their patience. Rather than go on tour, Kate Bush decided to perform 22 'residency' shows at a single venue, which turned out to be an overwhelming success. Tickets were over 400 pounds, with an estimated 80,000 attendees that enjoyed the spectacle over the 22 day period (not including swag). While a commercial success, perhaps the most interesting aspect was that the format worked very well, both for the artist and the audience and a model of what future concerts could be. While this particular example of triumph applies to music, the same blueprint can be executed with technology. Drawing along similar lines, does your audience yearn for a system that is modern, automated and visually appealing? Has it been far too long since anyone uttered a palliative phrase about your existing system? True... you may not receive the rave reviews (or applause) that fans bestowed upon Kate, but inside they will more than just ‘accept’ the new variant... especially if they have been accustomed to the same drab, lifeless database for years. Your existing system may have been cool when HotBot and GeoCities were a thing, but if your CRM is past its prime, it’s high time to get on board with the cool factor and bring your database (and your team) back into the limelight. The good news... it’s not as complex as you might think so long as you're willing to make the decision to do so, as it’s just a matter of planning wisely (and, as the phrase suggests, exercise patience over speed). If you decide to choose Salesforce as your tool of choice, you also have the benefit of tailoring your CRM to the needs of the organization without skimping on quality (although if your system is super-old, then any modern CRM will be an improvement). Customizing the solution to the needs of the user comes not only in the feature-set, but in the license cost as well as you need only pay for what you truly require (and nothing you don’t). Once you have determined which license-type is best, the rest is all planning and preparation, with the main buckets of deployment as follows:

Object and Field Identification in Source System

Inventory of automated functions in Source System

Creation of Sandbox (test) environment in Salesforce

Development of Objects / Mapping of Fields and creation of processes (using Flow Builder or ‘Flows’) in Sandbox

Exporting of Data from Source System

Import of Data (CSV) into your Sandbox via DataLoader (or Dataloader.io)

QA Testing / comparison of imported data and creation of test records in all objects

End-User testing with comparison of old system and Salesforce (Sandbox) with list of issues, enhancements and other feedback from users.

Implementation of fixes and requests with estimate go-live date for production (with communication plan to follow)

Deploy Change Sets (migrate from Sandbox to Production)

Final Testing / Go-Live

Of course, there are subcategorized criteria amongst each iteration step above, but for the bold developer or admin bent on getting to point ‘B’, the journey may be challenging (especially for large-scale systems with millions of rows of data), but it’s far from an impossible task. Much of the procrastination could be due to ‘phantom fears’ of having things break or forgetting about a rule or process that was not initially conceived, but this is only due to poor planning or a lack of overall vision. Of course there will be items that come up during discovery, but they should be minor in comparison to large-scale issues which would only occur through a lack of preparation. That being said, at least you have the time (and hopefully the approval of the executive) to map this out, and as long as there is a clear timeline defined, it pales in comparison to being de-motivated at the eleventh-hour without knowing all of the facts such as what all developers had to contend with during the Y2K deadline... which in the end was a ‘phantom’. Leveling up to a modern, cloud-based CRM is of course not doable if you have already decided to be complacent with your existing system, and if yours is an environment which is error prone and expensive to keep it regularly updated, the biggest cost could not only be attributable to your users and enterprise, but to yourself.

Title image of Kate Bush / Hounds of Love by Society6  |  Quote by Arnold H. Glasow

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Workflow Mapping Software for Lean Workflow Management

Workflow mapping software is a powerful tool for managing your daily tasks. It can help you analyze processes, enhance efficiency, and avoid mistakes. These tools are essential in work management.

The best workflow mapping software makes it possible to design workflows faster. It enables you to identify the roles and resources required for a project, and then map out the process. This will also help you eliminate flaws quickly and efficiently.

There are several free workflow mapping tools that you can use. However, you will need to purchase an upgrade if you want access to all the features.

Another good workflow mapping software is Lucidchart, which allows you to create a workflow by combining diagramming and collaboration. It also provides data visualization and easy sharing.

You can choose from a variety of templates or simply upload images from your local drive. You can also add illustrations to each slide.

For companies, workflow mapping is a crucial step in the process of improving efficiency. It can improve communication, reduce redundancy, and make everyone accountable. In addition, it can standardize processes, which can boost productivity.

Some of the more popular workflow mapping tools include Visme, MindMeister, and GitMind. Each offers different features. They can be used on desktop, mobile, or online.

Visme has an animation feature that makes objects pop-up. You can also make your objects move and change colors.

Workflow mapping is a valuable tool for analyzing and preparing an organization for growth. When you know what you are doing, you can be confident to start a digital version of your process.

Also Read : free workflow mapping tools

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Using a Google Workflow App to Automate Your Processes

Creating automated document workflows is a great way to streamline your workflows and improve your efficiency. These workflows can automate a variety of tasks, including generating and sending documents.

Workflow automation is becoming more and more popular in businesses. In particular, combining document generation and approval workflows can make processes much easier. With the right workflow app, your company can streamline its daily tasks and increase its efficiency. These apps are easy to use and offer flexible pricing. You may also want to look for apps that can share links with other users.

Simple Workflow Manager is a free add-on that allows users to manage workflows in Google products. Its Google Sheet integration allows users to assign workflows and monitor activity. It also makes it easy to generate dynamic documents. It also includes notifications. Adding the add-on to your Google Drive account is a quick process.

Document Studio is an add-on that automates document generation. It integrates with Google Drive, Trello, Asana and Google Chat. It's easy to setup and eliminates the need for creating the same document multiple times. The document generator will automatically generate Google forms and send them as PDFs.

There are also free add-ons in the Google web store. These include ML workflow, which allows you to automate your document generation process. It's also possible to connect your Google Drive to a SQL database. You can also use frevvo connectors to automatically fill your forms.

Lastly, there are many paid add-ons in the Google web store. Some of these require a one-time payment, while others require a subscription. You should check if the company offers support before you make a purchase.

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Part 1 of "dinluke + kisses ruined my workflow". Part 2 is in the far future because I am writing two fics, I don't have the time to map out and draw a 1-page silent comic. I am also still rusty as hell so maybe work on drawing a bit more before attempting another comic? Maybe????

Inspired by me losing my mind over an ask for an ask game. Huge shoutout to @violets-and-mints-reblogs for derailing the last hours of my workday. I really needed that break from writing.

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I've started conducting job interviews at work now? It's terrifying but it turns out I'm really good at it? So if interviewing is daunting, here is my advice from the other side of the table. It turned out to be very long, so here's a cut.

When you apply:

Oh my god please spell check your resume, I beg of you.

Gimmicks absolutely will not help you. You will get so much farther with a resume that is neatly formatted and a cover letter that is straight to the point.

Make sure you count all your experience!! Internships and fellowships count as experience!! The computer system will reject you and I'll never see it in the first place!!

After you've gotten the interview:

If you're trying to get a job in a field you've never worked in (as most of the people I interview are), break down your former employment or experience into the skills you used and keep that information at hand. You used to work in food service? You have experience in delivering an experience at a high quality with basically no margin for error, and you work well under pressure. You were a telemarketer? You have experience at following a workflow and deescalating conflict.

We and every other job WILL be asking you about a. conflict management and deescalation (have examples for how you resolve conflict with coworkers, clients, and bosses) b. personal time management (how you stay organized and on schedule) c. what you do when you realize you can't handle a problem by yourself d. your strengths and weaknesses (see below) Just go on and have an answer ready. You will be asked. There will be questions you're not prepared for. Be prepared for these.

Do a little googling about the company/organization. What will become extremely clear to you immediately is whether they're going to care about you caring about the mission. Some businesses don't. Every non-profit and every government agency does. If they seem like they care, you should pretend to care.

Ask all your questions of the person who is scheduling the interview. I don't recommend trying to figure out who will be your boss and contacting them. Everybody's very busy all the time, none of us are hiring specialists, and we're using the HR staff to act as our buffer. You will look like a nuisance, not a go-getter.

Do look at a map and figure out where you're going. It's vastly preferable to call an hour ahead and say you're unsure where to go than call ten minutes late and say you're lost.

When you walk into the office:

I personally don't give a fast fuck if you come empty handed, but some interviewers HATE that, so definitely bring a notebook and a pen. It's no longer necessary to bring paper copies of your resume. If you're going to interview a lot, may I recommend dropping five or ten bucks on a sketchbook at Michaels or similar? It looks polished and also you can actually use it for things. If you need to write notes to help you remember anything from above, it's okay to write them down. Anybody who would ding you for that isn't someone you need to work for.

If you don't know what to wear: black or khaki pants, nice shirt. Preferably a blazer, but that's optional at entry level imho. Lately I'm finding that the men's sections in thrift stores have better selections? If you've got big hips, you can slit the sides of a men's dress shirt up to your waistline and tuck it in. If you have to come in jeans, wear a belt. If you only have a t-shirt, make sure it's clean and tuck it in. You don't have to prove to me you have money to get this job; you just have to prove to me that you are taking this opportunity seriously by presenting yourself neatly, because you will be expected to be dressed neatly at work.

My sibling in Christ beloved child of God, be polite to every fucking person you see. Oh my god I cannot stress to you how polite you need to be. I cannot believe that this is a thing I have to say, but I sure do! If it's close between you and another person, that snippy comment you made on the elevator WILL lose you that job. Ditto for if they walk you around to meet people. Just be THE politest motherfucker.

When you walk into the room:

When you sit down, what you are looking at is one person who is running the interview, twoish people who are related to your job, and sometimes also someone from HR, unless HR does all the interviewing. One of these people wants to be your hype man. If it's my office, it's me, I'm hype man. I want to have a dialogue with you to see how prepared you are and how good of a communicator you are. I want this interview to go fast and seamless. I'm in your corner. Don't play to the guy who's actively staring off into space. Focus on the interviewer who's most focused on you.

NEVER downplay your own experience. Getting a job you're underqualified for is a problem for future you. If you only have internships, or you only have retail, or you only have food service, or you only have work study, fuck it. You walk in there and act like you've been the goddamn president. The question of your qualifications and the question of your experience are separate. Never act like your experience doesn't count because it's in a "lesser" field.

EVERY. TIME. you are asked about your weaknesses, explain how you have used them for growth. Do not wait to be asked, just slap it in there. One of my biggest weaknesses is giving up control, so I've made a conscious effort to involve other people earlier in the process. If you're not fuckin working on your weaknesses, just try to imagine what would be a good idea. Or maybe work on them? I'm not your dad.

What I am looking for is your ability to answer my questions in a complete and concise way. If you can't give me a specific example, I want you to be able to reflect on your previous work and say "When it comes to X, my experience doing Y is relevant in this way." I am asking you for a synthesis. Most of what I need you to do in this position, I know you've never done. If there is something where I specifically need you to have done X as a professional qualification, there is nothing else you could say that would be right, so you have nothing to lose.

Keep some question in your back pocket for when they ask "do you have any questions for us." It is a hundred percent okay for this to be a softball question, but it's also okay to ask something more probing. You can ask how they handle training, town and gown relations, what the possibilities for employee development are, whether they've done any diversity initiatives, if there's a good work-life balance, what the previous person in the position is doing now, what their strategic planning is like, whatever, just something to prove you're engaged. Do not ask about leave, and do not ask a gimmicky question you saw on the internet. If you can't think of anything, just fuckin ask them how they like working there. That's perfectly fine.

This isn't the time to bring up ADA accommodations. The person who can approve that for you is almost certainly not in the room, and you put us in a super weird position. I am saying this as a person who receives ADA accommodations from my employer and did not disclose my disability when I was hired, as is my legal right. Don't bring it up until you think it would actively prevent you from fulfilling a job requirement or accessing the office. In the before times I had a dude once who called me asking if the building was accessible, because he just wasn't going to interview if it wasn't, and I was just like "...that's fair, my man, but you can come on down."

After the interview:

I fully don't care about a thank you note; I'm unlikely to see it anyway. Some people do. You may send one (1) and ONLY ONE thank you note; generally it should just go to the person who scheduled your interview. Do not, and this is so important, do not email again. I know it is the fucking worst how employers get away with ghosting people but my friend you and I cannot change that. (We do send notices to people who get interviews but don't get the job; people who don't get interviews are informed by the computer system.)

It's gonna be okay. I'm not trying to trick you; I want this to go smoothly, and I want you to demonstrate that you understand how you would use what you've already done to do what I need you to do. I don't want this to be awkward any more than you do. Actually, I want this not to be awkward more than you do, because I have to do this several more times.

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Hello! Sorry to bother but do you have any digital art tips? I’m quite new to it and any tips, tricks or advice would be helpful! Your coloring style is very beautiful and I love it a lot!

thank you! 💚💚💚 sorry this is a bit late, hopefully there's still something helpful in it!

(also, it got pretty long, sorry!)

I think the biggest thing is to just take things slow -- digital art feels different than drawing traditionally, and it's SUPER easy to get overwhelmed by the billions of cool features that the digital world offers. (I say, as someone who spends a lot of time downloading cool brushes and textures...and then never using them ever.) there is a ton of really cool stuff you can do digitally, but because there's so much, I think it's really important to take time to figure out what is and isn't working for you. spend some time doodling without any intent to do a finished piece, figure out how you like to hold (or not hold) your tablet, what keyboard shortcuts you end up using a lot (and therefore might want to map to your pen/tablet buttons for quicker use)...that kind of thing!

everyone's workflow and preferred program and style are different, so it's hard to give hard-and-fast general advice. but the things that I think of as the essentials for learning digital art programs, and what I think of as a good order to focus on learning them in (although YMMV, especially depending on what kind of art you're doing):

brush customization (e.g. flow, opacity, softness)

layers and layer masks

selections and transformations (e.g. scale, rotate, flip horizontal/vertical, skew) (skew is underrated and I will die on that hill)

blending modes (e.g. multiply, screen)

adjustments/adjustment layers (e.g. hue/saturation, curves)

and I think most stuff after that is gravy! often very good gravy though! but yeah, as overall advice I recommend just taking things one little bit at a time, spending some time just drawing and messing around with each feature and what you can do with it. whether or not you end up incorporating any of it into your workflow, it's always good to try things out and just see how they feel! :D

and just so there is at least a little more concrete helpfulness in here, here's a few more specific things that I think are super important to keep in mind!

use! your! tablet/pen buttons! I mentioned this earlier, but they are extremely useful for keyboard shortcuts that you use often! most programs will also let you create new shortcuts for other things -- personally, I use the magic wand tool to fill in big color blocks a lot, so I made shortcuts for 'expand selection' and 'fill' and then mapped them to my tablet buttons.

flop your work horizontally often! when you're working on something, you get used to the way it looks, so seeing it mirrored is a quick way to see it with fresh eyes! in my experience, it often feels like this:

(a common thing is to find that everything is sort of 'leaning' too much one way, which is where skew really comes in handy!) (seriously, I love skew, it is my savior)

if you're working with color, keep a hue/saturation adjustment layer (or a layer filled with black or white and set to Color) on top and toggle it on occasionally to check your values! a lot of people who know a lot more about color than me (and are better at putting it into words) have written about why values are so important, so all I'll say is that the rule of thumb is that your image should still be readable in greyscale:

there are some exceptions and grey areas (do ho ho), but it's a good general rule to keep in mind! (some programs also have a colorblind mode, so you can check to see how your work will look to someone with colorblindness!)

and finally, here's some digital art programs I recommend, if you're still looking for a good one!

free: krita, FireAlpaca

paid: ClipStudio, Procreate (iOS/iPad only)