Define Your Poster Compliance Program Objectives

Remember Stephen Covey’s Begin with the End in Mind, the second habit of Highly Successful People?

The compliance poster project gives you an opportunity – an opportunity to be that “highly successful person” who creates a highly successful outsourced solution for your company’s labor law poster compliance program.

What Problem Are You Trying to Solve?

Identify your department’s motivation and goals for making the change so that you can be assured that your outsourced solution achieves these objectives.

If you’re anything like the Society of Human Resource Management members who responded to an HR outsourcing survey, these top seven responses may resonate with your company’s reasons for outsourcing:

• To save money/reduce operating costs.
• To control legal risk/improve compliance.
• To gain access to vendor talent/expertise.
• To streamline HR functions.
• To offer services the organization could not otherwise provide.
• To allow the company to focus on its core business.
• To provide consistent/improved service delivery.

Gather your internal team for an initial outsourcing project meeting. Use this suggested meeting agenda to keep you on track. Identify what a successful outsourced solution looks like and what challenges outsourcing should solve. Otherwise, how will you know if the outsource program is considered a success by your department?

As an outcome from the initial meeting, list your department’s program priorities. Keep them handy as you take the next steps. They will become the measuring stick that you can use to assess the outsourced program’s effectiveness.

Tool Tip! The GovDocs Outsourcing Kit contains a tentative compliance poster initial meeting agenda. It’s in a convenient Microsoft Word format for you to adapt and distribute. The Kit includes other helpful (and free) resources to help get your outsourcing project off on the right foot.