Policies and Procedures for Your Organization

Organizations need governance documents; those policies, procedures, and other written rules that tell the organization and employees what to do and how to do it.

These documents are an important part of management to help the organization comply with legal requirements, accomplish its mission, and run efficiently.

Policies have legal significance and are the first things requested by a government regulator or civil plaintiff—they could be Exhibit 1 in a lawsuit. Or they could be quality documents that keep your organization’s practices in compliance and avoid a lawsuit in the first place.

This course helps you and your organization build effective and quality governance documents. It aligns with my 2024 book and provides the highlights from it.

Policies are about both the destination and the journey. With a solid process you can improve your organization and the individuals on your project team while you create or update your documents.

This is for any type of organization and can be applied to any topic and any type of governance document. Learn about the Five Components for Policy Work and how to apply them for your company, non-profit, or government entity.

Some portions are specific to cybersecurity, an essential area and you will learn about the Four Pillars of Cybersecurity.

The course is divided into sections (which track the book parts):

• Section 1 lays foundation of policy principles, including Bandler’s Five Components for Policy Work to ensure your governance documents consider organization mission, laws, best practices, existing governance documents and practices.

• Section 2 provides important document project basics, including planning, people, and project management.

• Section 3 gets into the details of managing the document project and writing. We analyze our components and what applies, write and edit the document, manage the project team, gain approval, finalize, publish, train and implement.

• Section 4 is specific to cybersecurity policies and discusses laws, cybersecurity frameworks, and Bandler’s Four Pillars of Cybersecurity.

• Section 5 is a brief overview about using, maintaining, reviewing and updating the documents to keep them current.

• Section 6 tracks the Appendix, walking you through those parts that can be covered in an online course.

In sum, good policy work is an essential part of management and helps the organization comply and achieve the mission efficiently. Use this book to learn solid concepts and apply them in your organization.

This course is not for everyone! It is academic type lectures, using my PowerPoint slides, no fancy graphics, no fancy video editing. It is not entertainment. You will need a ten minute attention span (sometimes twenty). Consider your personal preferences, and see a few sample videos before you decide if this is right for you. If you have a problem or need something, message me. If you try it and its not right for you, no problem, Udemy has a great refund policy.

This course will not provide you with custom policies and procedures magically tailored to your organization.

It helps you with the process so you can do it yourself according to solid principles. Policy work is about both the journey and the destination.

My 2024 book is: Policies and Procedures for Your Organization: Build solid governance documents on any topic ... including cybersecurity. This course provides the highlights of it, but obviously does not cover every detail in the book.

Building these courses is a hobby for me, I do not have significant video recording skills, nor hardly any video editing skills, and there is no production team. It's slide and lectures. This course has almost no editing, so you will hear my pauses and misspeaks, warts and all.