Policies and Procedures: Great for First Dates and Your Database

Kody Jackson

If we’re all being honest, we’ve all dreamed of having a time machine.

And if I’m being honest, those dreams always come to me after a first date. Maybe it’s the pressure—or self-sabotage—but I’ve learned to avoid the following over the years:

• Saying, “You know, you kinda smell like my mom”
• Creating an all-boys team to beat her and the girls at laser tag
• Challenging her to arm/leg/thumb wrestling
• Reading from my embroidered dream journal

Of course, I’d love to go back in time and fix all those issues (except the laser tag team—we won!), but that’s not how this life thing works. Without a time machine, it’s best to prevent problems before they happen.

It’s the same with your database. You want to prevent problems before they happen. That’s the idea behind our two newest courses, Creating Policies and Procedures and Expanding Policies and Procedures. In the first, learn best practices for creating guidelines that are useful, accessible, and easy to maintain. In the second, dive into more nuanced topics like gift acceptance policies and constituent life changes. Together, these courses will put you well on your way to a healthy, error-free database.

What are you waiting for? Go ahead and set a date to take one of these courses today.