Robby Slaughter recently wrote a guest post for The Circle R blog in regards to conforming to legal requirements in business. According to him, compliance can actually create a more effective and efficient environment.

Some may view business compliance as a task that ruins productivity. But in his post Compliance Doesn’t Have To Mean Drudgery, Slaughter provides some tips on ways in which adhering to the process can become easier and less time consuming. Below are some of his suggestions:

Marks, Language and Reference Cards

An everyday requirement of business is that we use defined terms correctly.

• The easiest solution is to produce a reference card which outlines the typical uses of common marks in your organization. That way everyone has a place to confirm that it’s Baker & Daniels, not “Baker and Daniels.”
• Tools like ShortKeys, AutoHotKey and Texter let you create key sequences that are automatically replaced with longer strings of text.

Selective Medium, Selective Memory

Another challenge we face has to do with how we correspond at work.

• You don’t have to use email for everything.
• Leverage your IT department. If it’s a corporate responsibility to save old messages, than ask your information technology department to consider investing in dedicated email archiving solutions.
• There really isn’t a great reason to use email for internal communications . . . within your own company, you’re much better off to leverage more optimized systems for communicating.

Whether you are part of a small business, work for a non-profit or government agency or work within a major corporation, Slaughter Development wants to learn more about your operation and how we can help you improve your processes. Our model begins with conversation. Contact us to start the discussion.

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