A document management workflow is a structured method used to produce, track, edit, store, and manage documents associated with a business process. With more and more documents being produced each day, businesses are now finding their current business workflows are not efficient enough to maintain streamlined document management. Difficulties with a Manual Process If managing […]
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10 Best Practice Tips When Implementing a Document Management System
A Document Management System automates the process of managing documents from creation to storage and distribution throughout an organisation, increasing efficiency and reducing the cost and clutter of maintaining paper records. As such, businesses are now looking at implementing a cloud-based document management system to help manage, maintain, and safely store these important business documents. In this blog, we look […]
The Top 5 Benefits of a Document Management System
Documents are a necessary part of any business or organisation. Every department and each position will have documents relevant to them and every procedure and all your policies will be documented somewhere. Regardless of whether these documents are stored physically in your office, or on a computer system, managing these documents, ensuring they are up […]
COVID-19: Getting Your Teams Ready to Return to Work.
Many workplaces across Australia and around the world are looking to recommence their operations and start their new normal. With restrictions easing, now is the time to start looking at your COVID Safe Plan and to start retraining and re-inducting your teams to ensure your workplace is return to work ready post COVID-19. The National […]
Developing Effective Business Goals and Objectives
In order to prosper and grow, all businesses need goals at every stage in the business lifecycle. There’s no denying the importance of business goals. Strategic goals represent critical or important achievements in your organisational strategy. Goals provide direction, motivation, and a clear way to measure your progress. They’re objectives to be achieved over the […]
Developing Effective Business Policies
Established business policies and procedures promote continuity and a positive team spirit as well as an atmosphere of efficiency, good communication, and support. A comprehensive set of policies and procedures will assist in resolving disputes regarding performance and what tasks are required to be completed. Ultimately, a good set of policies and procedures should assist […]
How to Perform Successful Staff Inductions
Did you know that 25% of new employees decide to stay or leave an organisation in their first week? With a quarter of new employees choosing whether to stay or leave your business in the first week of employment, it’s important that businesses implement some key practices to motivate staff to stay onboard. A staff […]
Training Your Teams on Competition and Consumer Law
Consumer protection law is important for the efficient functioning of markets – it encourages consumers to shop with confidence and enables businesses to compete fairly without non-compliant businesses being rewarded for using underhanded or misleading tactics. Any business that provides goods and services to consumers needs to ensure the staff working in those businesses are […]
Practical Ways To Exercise Duty of Care in the Workplace
Everyone has a duty of care, a responsibility, to make sure that they and other people are safe in the workplace. It means that individuals should always act in the best interest of themselves and others, not act in a way that can result in harm to themselves and act in a way you are […]
Managing Risks with Electronic Communications and Social Media
Many of us may find it difficult to remember a time when conducting our work duties did not involve extensive use of email communications and the internet. Internet use has rapidly changed as interactive social media, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter came to be. When employees engage in such internet social networking, the line […]
Maintaining Customer Privacy
Consumers have become increasingly connected and are constantly sharing information online. They are researching, purchasing, and using online products and services, via any number of connected devices. They are also opting in to share their preferences as part of interactions on social media and search sites. All this customer data and personal information is being collected by device […]
Building a Security Awareness Program for Your Business.
A security awareness program is a way to ensure that everyone in your organisation has an appropriate level of knowledge about security, along with an appropriate sense of responsibility. With the recent reports from Prime Minister Scott Morrison on cyber attacks on businesses across Australia, now is an important time for businesses to readdress the importance of […]