Course description
Gain an overview on records and information management fundamentals; benchmark your procedures against best practice; gain information management techniques for organising and finding information; perfect your digitalisation and preservation of records and develop a more effective retention schedule.
Through attending this course , delegates will develop actionable strategies for managing digital records. Leave the day with the knowledge to create an information management programme and take away practical guidance for the retention and deletion of records.
This course has been specifically designed to provide you with the essential skills to improve the management of your organisation’s records.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Effective Records and Information Management Course, is ideal for:
- Records Managers/Officers or staff
- Anyone staff that work or are associated with the management of records.
- Information Governance Officers or Managers and Data Protection Officers.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
At the end of this Effective Records and Information Management Course, you will be able to:
- Identify the benefits and risk of information and records management
- Learn what options exist for digitalising your records and which is best for your organisation
- Understand what components make up an effective records management programme
- Assess the information and knowledge management strengths and weaknesses of your organisation
- Develop tools and processes to determine business requirements for information management
- Identify key information security risks
- Gain techniques to preserve your digital records
- Create the right retention schedule for your organisation.
Training Course Content
Day 1
Information Management Essentials
- Understand what information management is
- Explain to colleagues what benefits and risks are associated with information management
- Learn how information supports compliance with data protection laws.
Day 2
Knowing What You Have
- Learn about the various methods that information managers use to help organise and retrieve records
- Understand when and how to use classification and filing schemes
- Learn how to develop file naming and version control policies
- Appreciate the relationships between information asset registers, GDPR ‘records of processing’ and other tools
Day 3
Effective Digitalisation of Records
- Learn when – and when not – to consider digitalizing paper records
- Know what options exist and how to choose the right strategy for your organisation
- Understand the available scanning techniques
- Learn about the available standards and when it will be appropriate to destroy scanned records
Day 4
Essentials of Digital Preservation
- Issues with managing digital records
- Learn about email management and its limitations
- Understand the risks to records over time
- Understand what options are available to preserve digital records.
Day 5
A Guide to Developing a Retention Schedule
- Identify what records should be retained and when they can be destroyed
- Dispose of records securely and correctly
- Ensure that your retention schedule reflects the needs of your organisation
- Understand the different kinds of retention schedules and their strengths and weaknesses
- Apply your retention schedule in the most effective way
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