The Evergreen Redbook update - ToC done!

The Evergreen Redbook now has a table of contents (ToC). Instead of the conventional 'Chapters', we have 'Days':

DAY 1: You're in the driver's seat

• Getting started
• The writer within the organization
• Take the initiative
• Whom you'll need
• What you'll need
• Preparing your physical binder
• The front cover
• The tagline
• The inner title page
• Sections & Section title pages
• Preparing your virtual binder
• The front matter
• The foreword
• The Preface
• The Acknowledgements
• The Introduction
• The back matter
• Forms & Formats
• Back Cover

DAY 2: Set the wheels in motion

• Your ToC
• Adding subsections
• Collect & Categorize
• Feeding the binder

DAY 3: Cruise along

• Key in existing data
• Get feedback on existing policies
• Fill in the gaps
• Get feedback on new policies

DAY 4: Accelerate

• Receive feedback
• Update the contents on Evernote notebooks (or of the Word files in your virtual binder)
• Send review copy to VP (HR)

DAY 5: Your collection drive

• Final Draft
• Your Master copy

DAY 6: Printing & Packaging

• Printing
• Packaging: Piles to Files

DAY 7: Distribution & Delivery

• Distribution
• Launch date
• Effective date
• Delivery 
• Support
• Master copy
• Revisions
• Obsolete copies
• Conclusion

The Evergreen Redbook - An update!

The writing of my ebook, "The Evergreen Redbook" has been long overdue and therefore, I've decided to write a tightly focused, short ebook instead of a lengthier Kindle book.

I have two audiences in my HR niche: People in HR and white-collar employees. My self-help topics are targeted at white collar-employees in the job market (large audience) while my How-To topics are targeted at HR folks (relatively smaller audience).

Since the standard book-length for PDF business ebooks is 15 pages (15 x 400 = 6000 words), self-help gets automatically eliminated for now as I'd need to write a 100-page ebook to get my message through. So, it's going to be an HR writing-related How-To ebook targeted at HR managers/execs of mid-sized companies (like the one I've been working for).

As an indie author, I'd be publishing the ebook under my own publishing company, Noah's Mark Publishing - an e-publisher of 'straight-from-the-trenches' info products. The follow up ebooks will be part of the Red2Green series of How-To/Self-help ebooks.

The ebook is a How-To guide on how to write an obsolescence-proof HR Policies & Procedures manual in 7 easy steps.

The 3 major problems people in HR face while working on HR policies and procedures manual projects are:

1. The policies get outdated pretty fast and the format itself makes it cumbersome to update.

2. The manuals are unwieldy because of a poor coding and numbering system.

3. A number of different versions of the same policies proliferate because they lack an inbuilt system to control the documents centrally.

I've used my experience in ISO implementation to borrow and incorporate its conventions in writing the HR manual for my own company. The manual's been very successful and has impressed every third party inspection agency that has ever visited the company. The above-mentioned shortcomings of the conventional manual are addressed in my system.