Speaking

All of us “do” documentation from emailing, to reports, to to-dos, to files, to spreadsheets, to organizing your receipts. Documentation is a fundamental underpinning practice in our work. But do we – and our organizations – really “get” it? Experience tells us, no. We often have little understanding of how we can apply the everyday skills of documentation—which we already know—to turbocharge our effectiveness.

Documentation has traditionally been viewed as “static.” That is, lifeless piles of paper, dusty binders on a shelf, records in your database. But when applied properly, documentation is “dynamic” – it actively moves you forward and changes outcomes.  

No matter what your situations—your files are a mess; you can’t get your team to follow up; you’re stuck in a vortex of meetings; no one reads your processes; your fancy system was a bust; your expensive, “best-in-class” consultants failed to deliver real change— Dynamic Documentation is about solving your business problems through 6 distinct steps: Capturing, Structuring, Presenting, Communicating, Storing and Leveraging, Leading and Innovating.

In today’s economy, there’s a push everywhere to conserve resources and “do more with less.” But when people are overloaded, overwhelmed, drowning in busywork and distractions, or working at cross purposes with unstructured projects, the result is exactly the opposite.  Organizations can’t become more efficient or effective if they don’t teach, encourage, and provide the tools for people to work better — on their own and in sync with others. However, when personal productivity and team productivity are connected, the results are exponential.

This session is designed to open the discussion and provide concrete approaches to enhance the productivity practices of your team. It recognizes that what makes one person productive doesn’t necessarily make another person productive. (In fact, this insight alone empowers individuals and teams to work smarter.) Whether participants are productivity junkies with established habits or newbies to the subject, the frameworks will be fresh and actionable, and will combine a mix of conceptual (even aspirational) ideas to rethink what productivity is about and tactical tools your team can implement immediately for better results.

If we and our organizations want more reward (money, opportunity, sales, customers, products), we need more risk. GRC (governance, risk, and compliance) professionals don’t have to be Debbie Downer at the party or the tattletale in the schoolyard who is always killing good ideas or ruining the fun. They can be standard bearers and beacons for strategy and tactics that balance the goals of the organization with a pragmatic assessment of the consequences.

For many of you, especially if you work in a larger or more established organization, your GRC program is probably at a mature state by now. That is a good thing (for the most part). But stability brings with it new challenges and opportunities, including the need to fight complacency, raise the bar in what we do, and meet the demands of today’s demanding economy and changing workforce.

This session explores key topics designed to add new life and energy into your GRC program — including Entity Level Controls, *Design 2.0*, Risk Management models, and 5 principles for better GRC.