Getting Employees to Actually Follow SOPs (Adoption Playbook)

SOP adoption failure has three usual root causes: SOPs are hard to find, SOPs are out of date, and there's no consequence for ignoring them. The fix is a mix of tooling ([Trainual](/reviews/trainual) for read-receipt tracking, [Document360](/reviews/document360) for freshness dashboards) and process (make SOPs part of code review, standups, and post-mortems). Adoption doubles when the SOP is linked from the tool where the work happens, not just from a folder in a wiki nobody opens. See [SOP audit checklist](/blog/sop-audit-checklist) for the freshness diagnostics.