Concise Writing

Why Isn’t Policy Drafting a Professional Competency?

When it comes to the skill of policy drafting, we have a serious training gap. We can contrast our situation...
Clear Writing / Concise Writing / Respectful Writing

Five Obstacles to IG Policy Approval

In the best circumstances, a well-crafted draft IG policy will sail through an approval process like a ship in warm...
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3 Ways to Make Corporate Policies Concise

Well written administrative policies are clear, concise, and respectful. Many organizations struggle with the "concise" part, adding in superfluous words...
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Policy Brief #2: Shorten your policy documents by removing restatements of other authorities

Policies should be clear and concise. One of the things people pad their policies with are statements that simply repeat...
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Policy Brief #1: how to shorten your policy documents

Policies should be clear and concise. The reason most are so long is that they include all kinds of information...
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One Single Policy or Many?

Do we want to have one single big policy or a bunch of smaller ones? I hear this question discussed...
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Why Are Office Policies So Lengthy?

The truth? Most office policies contain lots of crap. (That's the technical term. The formal term is "unnecessary sentences.") Written...
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Do your policies contain policy?

Well-written policies contain statements of policy, not advice. The distinction is critical: employees who are in breach of policy risk...
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Shorten Your Policies, Part 1

One reason many policy instruments are overly long is that they contain all kinds of statements that are not policy...
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