What We Can Help With: Policies

Make your policies work harder

Policies are often considered one of the dullest, dreariest aspects of business governance. They’re seen as boring, barely-relevant documents that are written and then sent to collect dust on a shelf (or, more likely, collect stray bytes in the cloud). The stereotypes are too often true—but they don’t have to be. In fact, when they’re done right, policies can be hugely beneficial to your business.

It’s our view that policies should be relevant to and informed by your unique organisational culture and processes. When this is achieved, policies can create real good by:

• Preserving and reinforcing your unique systems, practices, and IP.
• Outlining and codifying the expectations of all parties, putting everyone on the same page.
• Streamlining operations for consistency and efficiency (and, in turn, profitability).
• Making onboarding and inductions easier and more uniform.
• Creating a mechanism for training and upskilling.
• Serving as a guide for management or conduct in any given area of the business
• Demonstrating a commitment to following rules and regulations when regulators and assessors come around.
• Providing a written, official set of instructions that workers and managers can refer to, therefore reducing miscommunication and confusion.

Policies are a requirement for all kinds of prequals and compliance. Rather than ticking that box with a templated and fairly useless document, we help companies to put together a framework of policy that is relevant, effective, and actually helpful—something that is informed and guided by your organisational culture and procedures.

You don’t have to do it alone!

We can’t do it alone on your behalf, either. All too often, we see businesses outsourcing policy development completely, or relying on templates. While this might just cover your butt in a legal sense, it’s not adding any value. Done thoughtfully and intentionally, policies can be a long-term investment in operational efficiency, productivity, and profitability.
Involving employees in the process of policy development contributes to capability uplift and also to sustainability and continuity of your business. As more trusted people know what’s happening and why, the risk of single-person dependencies is reduced.

Ready to collaborate on policy that works hard for your business? Get in touch with the team!