What happens when employees keep learning—and employers help them do it? This week's Friday Challenge asks leaders to have one growth conversation that could benefit both the employee and the organization.

Your organization may spend hundreds of employee hours in meetings every month. This week's Friday Challenge asks leaders to examine just one: What did it cost in time, what did it produce, and should you do it the same way again?

Your Friday homework: choose one routine business process and follow it from beginning to end. Find the waiting, repetition, and unnecessary steps—then identify one thing you can remove, simplify, combine, or automate.

Your Friday homework requires no dashboard: ask one employee what's making their job harder than it needs to be. Then use your data to determine whether one frustration is actually revealing a larger business problem.

This week's Answer This comes with homework: choose one number that matters to your business, understand what's driving it, and identify one action you can take to improve it.