7 Steps to Better Written Policies and Procedures is an extension of the fourth chapter of Establishing a System of Policies and Procedures that addresses the Writing Format, or the heart of any successful policies and procedures system. While this book focuses on writing perfect, consistent, and accurate policies and procedures, this author has also included a five-step writing process that can be used in all kinds of correspondence from policies and procedures to technical manuals. This basic primer is a mere 168 pages and will only take 2-3 hours to read, upon which you'll have a great understanding of the mind of the policies and procedures writer. With this mindset, you'll be ready to write policies and procedures for any company, any size, and in any industry.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
7 Steps to Better Written Policies and Procedures:
I have read the book. However, I am very dissappointed that all the pages at the top were stuck together. Apparently the book was collated very quickly. Not good!
Good for Beginning and Intermediate (3.5):
THIS REVIEW IS FOR THE ELECTRONIC EDITIONS OF "ESTABLISHING A SYSTEM OF POLICIES AND PROCEDURES" ... AND ... "7 STEPS TO BETTER WRITTEN POLICIES AND PROCEDURES". As a technical writer, I had mixed feelings about these books. On the one hand, I thought they did an excellent job of presenting a simple, structured approach for developing and maintaining policies and their associated procedures in a systematic and consistent way. I think people who are new or relatively new to the work of developing... more info
Precise and concise policy & procedure style guide:
The format that Stephen Page lays out is concise and allows for "precision writing" by giving the author of any policy and procedure the appropriate building blocks that such a document should have. Now in the Sarbanes Oxley era the need to document internal controls - and the policies and procedures that frame those - can be documented in an easy to use, standardized format that reduces wordiness and makes the writer, reader and user focus on what is really important - the content.
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Great for Book for Writing Well Written Policies and Procedu:
This book is just what is advertised, how to write better policies and procedures. It advocates the use of a writing format that makes for easy-to-read policies and procedures, a format that I know from conferences is used worldwide by many companies. This book is for procedure writers, not technical writers. And this book is not high-level, it is very detailed to the extent that my company has bought more than 25 of these books to hand out to each person who writes policies and procedures. While the book... more info
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