Policies worded for
stronger engagement

With a few simple techniques, you can significantly reduce the time it takes to produce good draft documents.

Learn to identify obstacles to a speedy approval process. Clients have reported policies that sped through the approval process in one-quarter the usual length of time.

Learn how to incorporate respectful wording without sacrificing the strictness of mandatory requirements.

Learn how to avoid the traditional adversarial approach to rule-making that divides groups into "us" and "them" camps.

Bring a ready defense to respond to the word-smithing that fills policy consultations, inevitably wasting valuable time and taking the focus away from the substantial portions of the requirements.

Eliminate language in policy statements which discourages—rather than encourages— compliance.

Avoid the traps that make statements unclear or ambiguous, opening the door to non-compliance and creating barriers to enforcement.

Internal Audit teams are often stymied in their work because they are faced with policies that were poorly written, and therefore difficult to report on. The Perfect Policies™ approach produces policies that auditors can work with easily.

Learn techniques that allow you to be more autonomous. A better-trained workforce is less demanding on team leaders.

Baby Boomers may not realize it, but the I-am-in-charge-and-you-will-listen tone of voice found in many policies is a vestige of a time when those in charge commonly chastised or scolded their subordinates. Learn to remove traditional authoritarian language that has no appeal to Millennials.