Question of the month: How does using the typical writing process assist you in creating effective procedures?

The advice for writing procedures is the same as for any kind of writing project – from a college term paper to a novel, a business letter, or a procedure; craft the writing project by working through a process that includes three phases: Plan – Draft – Revise. Extensive research has shown that writing projects of any kind tends to be successful when writers use the process approach and engage in some type of activity from all these three phases.

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In this series our topic is how to write procedures: what advice do we have to give about writing procedures? Most importantly – employ the writing process. The writing process considers activities that successful writers engage in while producing a piece of writing, and it applies whether one is writing an essay, a business letter, or a procedure. These writing activities are typically divided into three steps or phases – Planning, Drafting, and Revising. Having covered Planning and Drafting, let’s turn our attention to Revising.

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Recently we published a series of articles covering why you need policies and procedures, and it included how to decide when you need to create procedures. Now that you understand why you need procedures, let’s talk about how to write procedures.

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It’s finally here ! The long awaited blog to manage Bizmanualz articles, news and special offers is up and running. The main motivation behind implementing this blog was to help web visitors like you more easily find the information you want at www.bizmanualz.com.

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User-friendly blog aimed at helping web visitors to www.bizmanualz.com more easily find articles, tips and special offers on policies, procedures and processes.

St. Louis, MO – November 17, 2006. Bizmanualz, Inc, a business publications and consulting company based in Clayton, Missouri, today announced the launch of a weblog titled Policies, Procedures and Processes Blog. This is in response to a growing demand from visitors to the Bizmanualz website for a simplified interface to its rich collection of articles on writing policies and procedures, process improvement concepts and implementation tips.

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In our previous article, we discussed procedure discovery and design. During discovery, your main goal is to understand the flow of information which, in turn, will tell you what is expected from the procedure or the process.

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Recently we talked about writing procedures to increase control. This week we’re talking about writing for results.

So, you have been tasked to write a procedure…but where do you start? I like to break the process into four parts:

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Managers know the difficulty of getting people to do the right things the right way. And employees need their expertise and understanding of the way things should be done. But how do you get it across

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Wouldn’t it be nice for business owners and executives to be finished with their policies and procedures project already? They know they need to get it done, but maybe it’s taking too long. Or perhaps their people are staring at a blank piece of paper, and

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You do your best to make sure your organization is operating as effectively as possible. But if your policies and procedures are incomplete, outdated, or inconsistent, then they are not driving the

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