Taxonomies and Metadata for Intranets & Document Management

Be able to understand and apply techniques for:

• Taxonomies that work. Getting the right combination to suit recordkeeping, business and usability needs
  
  
• Spotting common mistakes in building taxonomies and determining metadata
  
  
• Findability. Principles on planning your findability strategy including folksonomy use
  
  
• Applying taxonomies. Learn principles for how to render your taxonomy to different media (e.g. paper, EDRMS, Intranet, SharePoint, file shares)
  
  
• Metadata. Getting the optimal amount and make-up of metadata to support recordkeeping and findability needs
  
  
• Day 2 focuses on the Metadata Standard and can be booked separately. How to meet and document the mandatory requirements to meet NZ’s Public Records Act.

TWO DAY workshop, both days bookable seapartely
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Personal pay discount available. Inhouse courses available.

Be able make the right choices so your organisation
gets more value from your EDRMS

Learn how to:

• Get the Right Risk Profile. Understand the risks of different EDRMS approaches, platforms and vendors so your organisation chooses wisely and commits resources where they are needed
  
  
• Spot common mistakes in selecting and implementing EDRMS, based on real world successes and failures
  
  
• User Adoption. Building user adoption into the project from Day 1, so the investment is not wasted
  
  
• Makeovers made easy. Identify key ways of raising the usefulness and usability of your EDRMS, so staff start using it more
  
  
• Meet and show compliance. Know how to get the most compliance from your EDRMS – in practice and on paper with the audit tool and mandatory standards

TWO DAY masterclass, both days bookable separately
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Personal pay discount available. Inhouse courses available.

Achieve more, know more with less hassle and stress
Learn from the experts - Directors Sarah Heal and Grant Margison

Learn how to:

• Make deliberate choices about how you manage information and knowledge.
  
  
• Create a portfolio of high, low and no-tech structures to support you
  
  
• Stay up to date with subject matter that interests you
  
  
• Learning stays learnt. Be better able to call upon previous insights, information sources and knowledge
  
  
• Tune your creative process to play to your strengths and use a range of technologies and approaches to suit the situation
  
  
• Spot common mistakes you or others make that self sabotage your efforts and contribute to information overload

ONE DAY workshop
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Personal pay discount available. Inhouse courses available.

People power makes or breaks technology and IM/KM projects.
Design and implement projects that bring people with you

In this two day event you will learn how to:

• Build messages that get the responses and buy-in you need
  
  
• Construct business cases that are compelling and achievable
  
  
• Win over stakeholders. Understand the drivers of your key stakeholders and how you can bring and keep them on board
  
  
• Resolve opposing views. Gridlocks bring projects to a standstill. Learn how to identify and work through them to get things back on track
  
  
• Stop self sabotage. Understand your own behaviour style and see how that influences the responses you’ve been getting and what to do about it
  
  
• Develop a change management plan that is adaptable to the different phases of your project

Proactively help staff exploit the power of your EDRMS, ECM, SharePoint

Learn how to:

• Engage with users no matter what their learning or behaviour style is, so they learn the best ways of using the system
  
  
• Resolve opposing views. Gridlocks bring business improvement to a standstill. Learn how to identify and work through them to get things back on track
  
  
• Work effectively with key stakeholders so they provide you and users with the support, backup and resources you need
  
  
• Get the governance model right so your system stays under control, but still flexible and responsive to changing user and business needs
  
  
• Find floorwalkers – recruit, train, support and keep them

ONE DAY workshop
Contact us for the full brochure and registration information.
See dates on our calendar.
Personal pay discount available. Inhouse courses available.