Start by identifying a workflow within your organisation or project is currently lacking in efficiency e.g. a bottleneck. This could include anything from email management to project reporting.

It might be difficult to pinpoint bottlenecks yourself, so use ChatGPT to help you.

A workflow process I own is: [insert process]. This process involves [insert steps]. What are potential bottlenecks or inefficiencies in this workflow process?

Point 3 resonates - it takes a long time for stakeholders to approve documents where I work. This is definitely a bottleneck.

Let’s ask ChatGPT for specific improvement suggestions.

I'm experiencing bottlenecks and inefficiencies with [specific part of process]. These issues are caused by [provide more details]. Could you suggest specific strategies or tools to that can help? I'm interested in recommendations for process improvements, technological solutions, and best practices.

At this point, you can collaborate back and forth with ChatGPT if the recommendations it gives don’t work for you or aren’t doable.

Now we’ve got some ways we can improve our bottlenecked workflow, let’s use ChatGPT to help us implement them.

These are the recommendations you suggested that I can and want to implement:

1. Consolidate Feedback
2. Collaborative Platform (Google Docs)
3. Clear Guidelines and Checklists

Can you outline a new, optimised strategy for this workflow process: How should I structure the workflow? What are the detailed steps for implementing your recommendations? How can I ensure implementation will be smooth?

You could also ask ChatGPT to create a project plan for implementing this new workflow, if there will be many stakeholders and moving parts to manage while getting it implemented.

Can you provide a template for a project plan focusing on implementing this new workflow process?

You might also want to define clear milestones and key performance indicators (KPIs) for the implementation. Use ChatGPT to help identify appropriate KPIs, asking;

What are effective KPIs to measure the success of this new workflow process?

Over time, once you’ve implemented your new, efficient and optimised workflow, you can use ChatGPT to help you further refine aspects of it and devise new strategies.

At some point, you might want to present your results to your team. Let’s use ChatGPT to help us with what to include.

Once I've successfully implemented the new workflow, I'll want to update my team on its success. How would I present that information?

You could also use ChatGPT to help you scale successful workflows across more areas of the business. Ask questions like;

1. “How can we replicate the success of our optimised document approval workflow in other areas?”
2. "What considerations should we keep in mind when scaling our successful email management workflow across the entire organisation?”
3. "As we scale our optimised onboarding process, what new challenges might we face and how can we address them?”