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Save 45% when you buy the CEO Series. It covers the ten core business processes and comes with nine fully-editable manuals for:

Sales & Marketing Tactics
Security Planning
Disaster Recovery
ISO Quality Procedures

Accounting Procedures
Financial Policies
IT Policies/Procedures
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How to Start Writing Policies and Procedures

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Any old policy and procedure format saves time by not having to start from scratch, right? Well, not necessarily.

Using a weak starting point can hurt employee usability, introduce confusion and user-error, and may not assist in your compliance and control objectives. The result could set your procedures project back further and cost you even more time to fix it later. But it doesn’t have to.

Drive Performance Improvement

If your policies and procedures are incomplete, outdated or inconsistent, then you are probably not driving the performance improvement you intended. And by improving your business, you can save money and help increase customer satisfaction.

Improve Your Results

To be confident you’re buying a procedure template that gets the job done quickly and correctly, it’s important to examine its basic elements. Take a moment to view the following features that you should be using, and also learn how to benefit with such crucial time-saving features as:

An ISO 9001 compliant layout for easier readability
A clear and concise header block to ensure a procedure communicates the purpose and scope
Clear department responsibilities that identify who does what
Key term definitions to reduce confusion
Measures of effectiveness to quantify outcomes
References to related documents to improve usability
Listing of applicable laws or regulations to communicate compliance
Detailed list of revisions to track edit history
Forms to ensure proper control and record keeping

Writing Policies and Procedures

Procedures should be action oriented, grammatically correct, and written in a consistent style and format to encourage maximum usability. This will result in an increase in both effectiveness and efficiency.

Improve Performance in All Departments

You can improve your procedures for many departments, improving performance and results:

Best Practices Saves Time

With more effective and efficient features, you can finish your policies and procedures project sooner. A core set of “best practices” policies, procedures and forms will begin to save you time right away.